₦airaland Forum

FuglyGurl:
DSS arrested me because of Peter Obi. It was Sowore who came to bail me. Peter Obi, you’re a very wick£d man.

— brodamike

DSS arrested me because of Peter Obi. It was Sowore who came to bail me. Peter Obi, you’re a very wick£d man.

— brodamike pic.twitter.com/AdXwgkOKZf

— Kemisola (@Stainlesz05) July 17, 2026

Park well, people plenty that have made sacrifices and dss did not put Peter Obi in your charges

People sef...

IronGalaxy:
Their big mouths and their insatiable need for attention is their biggest undoing

You guys can't do anything else other than the lynching of vulnerable Africans. Did that chap look like someone your xenophobic can reach where he lives in SA? You provoked him by killing his fellow Africans wearing the same stupid zulu attire so he has to hit back. I will definitely do the same and you can see our skit makers mocking the Zulu nonsense too.

Already the diplomatic push back is going on in Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Malawi governments and I am sure Ramaphosa is not dumb to escalate issues further. The next AU sitting will determine if they have balls to sanction Xenophobia republic or individual countries will do it themselves

SecurityNgr:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k2DOnADlk8

If He Dares Visit Nigeria, If You Were one Of His Victims, What Will You Do To Him ? Let's Discuss.

This one already has a death wish.

He should write his will if he has any before visiting ANY African country including Zimbabwe that's a stone throw away.

He and THE witch called Jacinta woke for the ANC government and white supremacist

Ezewuzie01:
Demented Peter Obi will struggle in the south east in the 2027 election. It will not be like 2023. The signs are showing visibly.

If his own village people in Agulu didn't have confidence in him during the last governorship election in Anambra state, it says a lot.

Who gave a phone to a known mad man in Lagos?

Kindly relocate this deranged man to the neuropsychiatric Centre in Yaba

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-how-fg-approved-recruitment-of-300-staff-members-for-fake-presidential-council/

Padi Padi Government featuring the *gangs of Chicago*

helinues:
I thought they said the Adeyemi is a psychiatric patient, why giving him attention

Someone mentioned me yesterday with a link of that Adeyemi has been impersonating as far back as during Buhari's tenure

Wow, how low can a man get?

Keep pretending to be asleep....

I wonder the kind of human you are in person. It's terrible to envisage

ogododo:
Federal government has reduced import levy on new vehicles 🚗 into Nigeria 🇳🇬 from 20% to 10% and that of used vehicles from 15% to 5% in order to ease cost of vehicle importation. The reduction takes effect today.



https://www.tvcnews.tv/vehicle-import-levy-reduction-takes-effect-as-new-fiscal-measures-commence/



@DOlusegun

For once do something nice for the people Bro Tinubu

Let this be enforced immediately and further reductions should be implemented on other imported goods

TaofeeqAA:
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A reform can sound beautiful in Abuja and still fail inside a crowded camp in Iyana Ipaja, Kubwa, Awgu, or Katsina. That is the first problem with the new NYSC reform approved by the Federal Executive Council. On paper, it sounds ambitious: six weeks of orientation, civilian operational leadership, specialised career streams, skills-based primary assignments, professional certification, a new uniform, and a graduation ceremony to replace the Passing Out Parade. But policy is not judged by the grammar of its announcement. Policy is judged by what happens when it meets water shortage, bad hostels, weak budgets, insecurity, and Nigerian reality.

Let us start with the six-week orientation camp. Extending camp from three weeks to six weeks may look like a serious investment in young people, but it becomes dangerous if the facilities remain the same. Many NYSC camps are already overstretched. In May 2026, as reported by Punch Newpaper, corps members at the Lagos orientation camp complained of persistent water shortage, inadequate storage facilities, irregular electricity, and overcrowding. Some reportedly woke as early as 1 a.m. to queue for water. If three weeks already tests the health and patience of young graduates, six weeks without massive investment in hostels, toilets, water, clinics, ventilation, food, and security is not reform. It is punishment with a policy title.

No young person learns civic values properly while struggling to bathe, sleep, eat, and stay healthy. A hungry corper listening to financial literacy under poor conditions is not being empowered; he or she is merely enduring another Nigerian survival course. If government wants six weeks, then the budget must speak before the slogan speaks. More days in camp means more feeding, more medical care, more staff, more sanitation, more electricity, more security, and more monitoring. Without that, the reform will simply double the duration of discomfort and reduce the quality of welfare.

The second issue is the shift to civilian operational leadership. This is not automatically bad. NYSC was never supposed to be a military barracks. A civilian-led structure can make the scheme more developmental, more flexible, and more aligned with skills and employment. But Nigeria must be honest about one thing: weak civilian systems are easier to bend. The military presence in camp, for all its harshness, gives NYSC a certain immediate discipline. Everyone wakes up early. Everyone lines up. Everyone wears the same white shorts. The child of a politician and the child of a mechanic can both be corrected in the same parade ground.

If that authority is reduced without a strong replacement, camp may become another Nigerian space where connection defeats discipline. Wealthy corps members may lobby their way out of duties. Influential parents may pressure officials. Some may sleep outside camp while ordinary graduates remain under stricter rules. That is why civilian leadership must come with clear enforcement rules, independent monitoring, transparent sanctions, and public reporting. A civilian-led NYSC should not mean a weaker NYSC. It should mean a more accountable one.

There is also a human management question that government should not pretend away. Thousands of young adults living together for six weeks need firm safeguarding, not moral speeches. Even under the existing military-style camp structure, discipline issues still occur. Extending camp to six weeks increases the responsibility of the state to protect corps members from harassment, exploitation, abuse of authority, bribery, and unsafe private arrangements. This is not about policing people’s private lives. It is about making sure power is not abused inside camp. Civilian officials must therefore be trained, monitored, and held accountable. If not, the reform may create new spaces for compromise and misconduct.

The third problem is the illusion of the six-week crash course. Nigeria must stop pretending that a broken education-to-work pipeline can be repaired with short camp training. A graduate who spent four or five years in an underfunded tertiary system cannot become a strong tech professional, agribusiness operator, infrastructure specialist, or entrepreneur because of a few weeks of lectures. Real skills require time, tools, mentorship, practice, assessment, and industry exposure. Germany’s respected dual vocational system, for example, is built around training in both companies and vocational schools, with apprentices employed by companies and trained over two to three and a half years depending on the occupation. That is a system, not a seminar.

If the new NYSC skills streams are serious, they must go beyond PowerPoint slides and certificates. The training must be practical, assessed by real industry standards, and linked to actual employers or enterprise support. Otherwise, Nigeria will produce another certificate economy: more paper, less competence. We must also ask uncomfortable questions. Who designs the curriculum? Who selects the trainers? Who pays the certification bodies? What happens to corps members who fail the assessment? Will they be forced to repeat training? Will certificates become another backdoor business for vendors and politically connected firms?

The certification angle deserves special attention. “Globally recognised professional certification” sounds attractive, but in Nigeria it can quickly become a contract bazaar. If not properly regulated, private training firms may begin to chase NYSC contracts, camp officials may control access, and corps members may be pressured into paying hidden fees. The government must publish the certification partners, selection criteria, cost per corps member, procurement process, assessment method, and complaint channels. A reform that claims to fight unemployment must not become another marketplace for insiders.

The fourth issue is the claim that NYSC can help build a $1 trillion economy. There is nothing wrong with ambition. A country without ambition is already tired. But advanced economies are not built by forcing graduates into state-designed career streams for one year. They are built by fixing basic education, strengthening universities and polytechnics, providing stable electricity, reducing business costs, supporting manufacturing, expanding infrastructure, and allowing the private sector to create real jobs. NYSC can support national development, but it cannot replace economic fundamentals.

The global examples also require care. Singapore has mandatory National Service, but it is rooted mainly in defence and security; full-time National Service is treated as a national security institution. South Korea’s compulsory service is also tied to national defence obligations. Germany’s vocational strength comes from long-term company-school training, not a six-week camp experiment. Nigeria appears to be mixing national mobilisation, civic training, military discipline, civilian administration, professional certification, entrepreneurship, and job placement into one overloaded scheme. That may sound innovative, but it is also risky. When one policy tries to do everything, it often ends up doing little well.

The fifth problem is the PPA reality. Skills-based primary assignment sounds good, but where are the receiving institutions? Many corps members already struggle to secure meaningful places of primary assignment. Some schools, companies, and government offices reject corps members because they lack space, funding, supervision capacity, or willingness to pay local allowance. If an organisation cannot absorb a regular corps member, calling the person “Digital Corps” or “Medical Corps” will not magically create a desk, a supervisor, internet access, equipment, or salary support. The reform must therefore include a serious employer partnership framework. Without that, the new streams will become new labels on old frustration.

The sixth issue is the Passing Out Parade. Scrapping or redesigning POP may look minor, but symbols matter. The POP is one of the few rituals that gives corps members a shared sense of completion. It is not perfect, but it is memorable. Replacing it with a formal graduation ceremony may be useful if the ceremony genuinely reflects skills acquired, projects completed, and communities served. But if it becomes another long government speech day, corps members will simply lose one emotional part of service and gain another boring protocol event.

The biggest weakness in this reform is the apparent distance between policymakers and present-day corps members. Many people designing NYSC reform still carry memories of a different Nigeria: when the scheme was more prestigious, the economy was less punishing, and allowance had real value. Today’s corps member is serving in a country of high living costs, insecurity, weak infrastructure, digital frustration, and deep uncertainty. A policy designed for an imaginary Nigeria will collapse in the real one.

This does not mean the reform should be rejected completely. Some parts are sensible. A technology-driven call-up process can reduce manipulation. Risk-sensitive deployment is necessary in a country facing serious security challenges. Skills-based PPA can make service more meaningful. Civilian leadership can modernise the scheme if properly governed. Camp grading can improve standards if it is transparent and tied to funding. The problem is not the ambition. The problem is the missing foundation.

Before implementation, government should answer five questions clearly:
1. what is the actual additional budget for six-week orientation?
2. Which camps currently meet the minimum standard for six weeks of residence?
3. Who will train, certify, and monitor the specialised streams?
4. What safeguards will prevent corruption, favouritism, and exploitation inside camp?
5. Which employers and institutions have formally agreed to accept corps members under the new PPA model?

Nigeria does not need another reform that looks powerful at announcement and weak at implementation. NYSC is too important to be treated as a laboratory for half-built ideas. If government wants to turn the scheme into a serious national development platform, it must first fix the camp, protect the corps member, fund the programme, involve the private sector, and publish the implementation plan.

A six-week camp without water is not innovation.
A certificate without skill is not empowerment.
A civilian-led system without accountability is not modernisation.
And a $1 trillion economy will not be built by slogans.

It will be built by honest policy, disciplined execution, and respect for the young Nigerians who are always asked to sacrifice first.

Wow!!
Excellent submission with beautiful recommendations. This blew me away and I think the government should subject the plan to a public debate and inputs.

nlfpmod:

Trending Video: Two young men beat up a female police officer and repeatedly punched an elderly male police officer in Benin City, around Upper Sakponba Road. pic.twitter.com/GRK2kTIP7r

— Trending Explained (@TrendingEx) June 29, 2026

These guys go spend the next 5 Christmases for police cell.

Unless they have connections

Dumb fools

Biodun1929:
If you weren't jumping parties up and down you would have a home to contest at. Ordinary small wahala you don jump yet you want to rule a complex country like naija.

The geroncratic mannequin that knows how to handle big wahala what has he succeeded in doing?
Plunging over 200 million people into multidimensional poverty while looting the country with his gangs of Chicago

We'll see how this script will eventually end. One thing is for sure, it will end one way or another.

helinues:
Citizens being inhumane to each other

Yeah, many are citizens especially the increased kidnappings in the South but most terrorists and bandits in the North are foreign islamic elements from Libya, Mali and from the Futa Jallon strait coordinated by ISIS and ISWAP. Boko Haram is local and could have easily been dislodged in 2014 but for politics.

We all remember APC chieftain Buraje's open confession that these foreign elements were imported to wedge a civil war with GEJ in the aftermath of the 2015 elections (His words, but emphasis mine)

The Risk and Security Specialists parlance (which I am a member) are curiously waiting for El Rufai's first interview after he's released from prison by September. He negotiated these deals so let's see if he'll burn his hands in the hot oil too

Nemere2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i65L_Q3n2hw

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EYtFqLVYq/

One day, the extremely poor you have deliberately impoverished to enrich yourselves will have no choice than to eat the rich.

Akpabio hippo daughter might taste delicious 😋

phemray:
Oga try to always say the truth. Is VDM the only person in the court? Morso, the judge ordered no one should record, so if investigated and found guilty, he should take responsibility his actions.

There's no evidence showing that VDM recorded anything. There were other people in court including court officials who might have recorded it.

Last time Bayo Onanuga said VDM said some things about the president when he was on China but it turned out to be an AI set by an APC apologist. The federal government is mute on that now have swallowed the hard pill

How are we sure this is not another plan to persecute him? I am not a ratel o Sowore fan but we want a Nigeria when the common man can breathe again and populist policies to in place to tackle hardship not just feed politicians fat .

Even if they lock up VDM, Sowore, Oga Aluko, Chidin Odinkalu etc more voices will rise up to replace them. Nigeria is too big for tyranny to go unchallenged. The military already knew this from

BATified2023:
if only u open your brain n understand the difference between activism n stupidity.

Many of u know nothing so it's a waste of time engaging u

So you think because this is a faceless forum that jes you knowledgeable more than others?


The reality of the people are the major indicators to measure if policies are working or not. Oir corruption index is at it highest ebb since independence and these measurable outcomes that every investor is aware of so we better stop deceiving ourselves

adenigga:
SOURCE



Barau Jibrin
Deputy Senate President

This is being done in a rush and it will boomerang. I don't trust any Nigerian politicians with state powers


There should be proper institutional balance that's will hold anyone accountable including governors and presidents

Kelle443:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYF17iS9w0?si=i64H2uVAQ1BmXtIk

A lady has gone viral after sharing her controversial stance on domestic violence. According to her, no matter the situation, a man should never hit a woman back—even if she starts the physical confrontation.
In the trending video, she explained that she would rather face divorce, police involvement, or any other consequence than be physically assaulted by her partner. She argued that men should walk away, restrain the situation, or seek help instead of retaliating.
Her comments have sparked intense debates online, with many people sharing different opinions on self-defense, gender equality, and domestic violence.

I totally agree, there are ways to handle a violent woman including divorce
Also just stay calm and tell yourself that it's cowardice to retaliate to someone far weaker than you


.... except for very rare and extreme cases

favor914:
Lazy man excuse, Ok u want us to believe that it is because of Northern Nigeria that u cannot build even a self contained bungalow in your village abi?

What has this rubbish you typed got to do with his comment?
You that APC has favoured and can build bungalow and storey buildings do it in peace but remember Karma.
If this country is not fixed from inside out with welfare of the people as an immediate priority then you might not stay in the house you built from corrupt proceeds in peace.
Bandit, kidnappers and terrorists are getting bolder and someone will give them your profile one day just to fulfill KARMA

You better repent

Vox Populi, Vox Deus

BATified2023:
dey play

Go n do stupid things n believe someone is watching

Y is Britain n all others watching watchers not rescuing nnamdi kanu now?

What is stupid in calling out maladministration and corruption? Are you happy with the way these political gangsters are running the country?

I am surprised at some comments and some day this python you are feeding will also swallow you up. Impunity is a double edged sword ⚔️

phemray:
And what will government of the world do, is this how Thier own activists and journalist handle things? He should be investigated is now a bad thing?

Why exactly should he be investigated? Same judges that wave the terrorists charges away but will prosecute ab activists and you see nothing wrong with that?

In other climes the institutions are not controlled by one man and his party as it is the case in Nigeria

cityboylagos:
Court Orders DSS To Investigate VeryDarkMan Over Alleged Leakage Of Coup Trial Videos



https://eyesoflagos.com/2026/06/24/court-orders-dss-to-investigate-verydarkman-over-alleged-leakage-of-coup-trial-videos/

The judges will eventually be the end of Nigeria as we know it

Trying to rope treasonable charges on Nigerians that opposed them just like Sowore is being set up

Omoluabi16:
I don't like reading stuff like this honestly. It messes with my mind. So this is what those uncircumcised devuls do to the women, and someone is calling for negotiation? Worse still we are reintegrating them back as per say repentant? No justice in this world.

The world has justice my dear friend, it's Nigeria where there's no moral or social justice.

It's a jungle and people who commit atrocious acts are not held into account but rather reintegrated to the society

ExAngel007:
JUST IN: Nigerian Streamer Peller Pays Bride Price For Jarvis— Mother Of His Unborn Child.



https://x.com/i/status/2068682061192282281

GehGeh Reacts

Peller why?

We have seen this movie before even from celebrities older than them. It will only end one out of two ways

Dumb kids

yarimo:
content creators everywhere mteeeew

It's a miracle how you have lived all your life without any semblance of shame or human dignity.

You can see the clear video showing this inhumane behaviour by APC campaign teams but you deem it necessary to deflect it as content.

The hydra monster this APC hardship has created will one day be consuming you in broad daylight and people will call it content creation as you scream for help.

Don't sow what you don't want to reap

israelmao:
Even if Reno Omokri has lost my support or followership I wouldn't wish him death for anything.

We do, even a painful one.

Our reason is because his divisive narrative in handling the herdsmen massacre in the middle belt emboldened the terrorists to kill more innocent people. He felt he's playing politics but families are grieving

Now tell me, if you are from these areas what will you wish Reno?

And don't tell me about biblical forgiveness. Reno is a pastor but uses religion to play politics of dangerous bitterness and divisiveness

Amovingman:
Peter Obi and his fans ehn

Na Yoruba and hausa way dey support Peter Obi I pity pass

See where you took your comment to? Only you in the whole commenters speaks volumes about your person. You think hating the ibs will make your life any better?

So it's true some of you can't survive a day without mentioning PO?

How does a comment between Reno and a troll turn to Obi? And you tried to show your tribalism by bringing Hausa and Yoruba into it so as to segregate the Ibos.

Please use your 🧠 if you have one...this is 2026 June and the evidence from BAT government has shown that poverty has no tribe or religion so that your emotional scamming won't work. I am not Ibo and can tell you majority of my tribal people are APC but won't vote Tinubu for president.

Of course we'll return our governor and some legislators. We have to survive hunger first to be able to do party or tribal politics.

Let another person with a different blueprint go to Aso Rock cos I doubt anyone can be worse than Tinubu

Burob:
Quite obvious that u are praying & waiting for your own bribe?

But sorry u are not worth even 100k Naira.

You are a well known political jobber and clown in Nairaland street

So engaging with you is an exercise in futility

Go attend your campaign WhatsApp meeting

CharlesCNG:
Thank you for making your points in such a civil manner. This is the kind of conversation we should be having.

I accept your broader concern: Nigeria’s judiciary must not only be independent; it must be seen to be independent. Perception matters greatly, especially in a country where public trust is already fragile.

I also agree that judges should avoid unnecessary political socialising, partisan optics and any conduct that creates suspicion.

Where we differ is in the conclusion that official accommodation automatically equals bribery.

To me, the stronger argument is this: judicial welfare is necessary, but the process must be transparent, institutionally clean and insulated from political theatre.

So yes, if the concern is that housing should be routed through clearer judiciary-controlled budgetary processes, that is a legitimate reform argument.

But if the argument is that judges should not be well housed because Nigerians are poor, I disagree. Poverty for judges will not solve poverty for citizens.

On “welfare for all,” I agree completely. Doctors, teachers, soldiers, police officers and ordinary citizens deserve dignity too.

But we should not build equality by weakening institutions. We should build a country where judges are protected, workers are respected, citizens have opportunity, and public officials are accountable.

So perhaps our disagreement is not on the destination.

It is on how we describe the road.

You call it bribery.

I call it welfare needing better institutional safeguards.

I brotherly acknowledged your appreciation of my civility on this discourse. The feeling is mutual. That's how nation building amongst mature minds should be because we all want the same thing. Reason I avoided partisan politics was because that's one of the biggest challenges of our democracy. Parties have become vehicles of convenience for massive corruption. The framers of democracy envisaged a political party as a school for developing agents of patriotic change through a process that holds them also accountable in the same vein. But our Nigerian version is just visionless with almost zero ideology.

The so called APC progressives are now promoters of a monopolistic and oligopolistic version of capitalism where the poor are overburden with civil responsibilities like high taxes while the elites with the means of production are tripling their profits. Just look at the banks and Industrialists. R
I once posited in a radio caller programme before the 2023 elections that Industrialists shouldn't be part of elective politics because they will make economic policies that will favour their businesses instead of protecting the poor. Even though Trump is a rare one in American politics but you can see the turmoils of his two tenures

Thanks for also acknowledging that perception management is key in this age of social media where narratives can be easily conceived, incubated and disseminated around the globe in less than 12 hours. The judiciary should abscond totally from political functions under whatever guise so they aren't tainted by perception cos it matters esp when judgements sometimes looked subjective like the justice Peter Lifu's imbroglio. I strongly posit that the welfare of the judiciary be handled by the NJC with their own parameters. We also have other top professionals like you earlier admitted who might feel left out like medical doctors, Professors etc. Remember one of the first things Tinubu did upon swearing in was to increase the salaries of judges by over 300%! If that's not pointing towards something I wonder what does. The executive should allow the judiciary to be financially independent as stipulated by the French philosopher Baron De Montesquiei in his doctrine of the separation of powers.

No one is advocating for the poverty of the judiciary. As I highlighted above they have already enjoyed a 300% rise in salary in a country that's really struggling due to harsh economic policies. They'll look the other way as they did during the end hardship protest by sentencing young people to harsh terms without remorse or looking at the the validity of their anger. They are comfortable so how can they understand the common man's perspective? Judicial reforms are long overdue and I believe it will come sooner than later because the eyes on the judiciary has grown beyond our borders.

I pray we see a Nigeria of our innate conviction that given our natural resources and human resource, we should be amongst the top 20 prosperous countries in the world. Norway and Luxembourg currently sit amongst the top 5 prosperous countries. Please check their human per capita index and their government's welfarist policies like subsidies amongst others. Also compare how many millionaires they have there with ours ...there's almost zero billionaires in some of these countries. The gap between the rich and the poor has many layers that made it almost unseen.

The engagement was well appreciated 👍

CharlesCNG:
My brother, name-dropping Falana and Sagay does not end the debate. It only proves that respected lawyers can hold opinions — and opinions can still be interrogated.

Falana’s position, as reported, is that judicial housing should be handled through the NJC/National Assembly process. Fine. That is a process argument, not automatic proof of bribery.

Justice Dattijo and Justice Ejembi Eko criticised corruption and opacity in the judiciary itself, including questions around how judicial funds are managed. That actually supports my point: the answer is transparency and accountability, not shouting “bribe” at every welfare intervention.

As for “BAT strategy,” thank you for confirming this is now political suspicion, not evidence.

You say Tinubu never loses court cases. Really? No politician has a 100% litigation universe. That is the kind of sweeping claim people make when emotion outruns proof.

And please, “keep pretending to be asleep” is not an argument. If I am asleep, then your logic is clearly sleepwalking. 😁

Patriotism is not paranoia. Judicial welfare is valid. Procurement can be debated. Transparency is necessary. But calling everything bribery because Tinubu is involved is not analysis.

It is partisan allergy wearing constitutional perfume.

To start from your concluding line, I have never been Partisan. But politically conscious enough to make weighted voting choices. For instance,in the 2023 elections I voted across party lines. My ballot papers had APC(2), LP(2), PDP (1) for both elections.
Also the only time I joined a party was the NCP after graduation and I was a state secretary. I saw the evils of politicians first hand and quickly left politics for public service but I still follow the political trends and advocate strongly for good governance. I strongly believe party politics has been used to stifle democracy.

Other issues you raised just confirmed my position that it's a bribe and I strongly align with the position of Baba Ahmed that the judiciary shouldn't even be seen in public occasions talk more of attending political functions and frolicking with the political class. Hope you didn't forget the senator that was that was thanking his wife, a federal judge for helping his political friends with favourable judgements. That was under Lawan.

All these conspiracies and suspicions nationwide are not supposed to be associated with the judiciary if you are kind enough to agree with me on that. They are the last bastion of democracy but in Nigeria it's the social media that's now defending democracy not even the regular media. Most of the print media have been corrupted or partisan.

This country belongs to all of us and we can see that immigration laws in other countries and the uncivilised actions of some xenophobic cretins in SA has forced our people to be returning home in droves. Many ran away due to the terrible elitist governance in Nigeria that's likened to autocracy. If we don't intentionally build a "welfare for all" country where anyone can have equal opportunity to eke our a decent living and pursue happiness then the level of insecurity and crime is just beginning. Because the bad Apples from both the returnees and the home base will exploit it.

Thomas Sankara once said " I'll rather have safe drinking water for all than champagne for a few"

Maybe, you my friend, is among the few but have some compassion for the over 80% of Nigerians suffering multidimensional poverty. One month into office Tinubu privatised ppe borne drinking water in June 1999. That precedent spread over ethe country a decade later and now we are amongst the worst counties with safe drinking water.

To hold political and industrial elites accountable, the judiciary must be 💯 independent and seen to be transparent

CharlesCNG:
"Story story story"?

Interesting. The irony is that after accusing me of story-telling, you proceeded to tell one yourself.

You say "top legal luminaries" have condemned it.

Excellent.

Which ones?

You then say "it's a bribe" and that I know it.

That is not an argument. It is mind-reading.


And thank you for invoking the "10-year-old child in my street."

Indeed, a 10-year-old may know many things, but thankfully constitutional law is not decided by primary school pupils.

As for your "clever by half" line, I must return the compliment.

There is something worse than being clever by half.

It is being emotional by whole.

Poverty has never been an anti-corruption strategy.

And if an official residence can buy a judge's conscience, then the problem is not the house.

The problem is the judge.

And that is a much more frightening proposition.

I guess Falana isn't one or Sagay isn't. Or the retired supreme court justice woman that blasted the judiciary some time ago on same comprise with the executive.(Forgotten her name)

But we Lagosians knows it's Bat's strategy to create judges "welfarism" . During his time as governor of Lagos state he did exactly the same thing for judges. Go research that and how be privatise pipe borne water in Jos first month as governor in 1999.

No wonder he has never lost a court case.

Keep pretending to be asleep. One day you'll wake up to the point where we are now.... being a patriot beyond party and tribal lines as we search for a solution that will give our children a better future rather than have poverty indices that are being compared to South Sudan and Somalia .

Burob:
How many judges has your state government bribed?

Method designed by them indeed, same members of the NJC that u have accused the federal government of bribing in the past?

Hey kid you are not talking to a kid. If my state governor wants to bribe he'll do it without looking back. He's APC so he knows the in-house rules.

BAT is known to bribe judges with "welfare"from his first tenure as Lagos state governor. He has never lost a court case in Lagos and that tells a story itself

Our judges are on trial and they know they are the last bastion of democracy. If they don't know kindly go and tell them

CharlesCNG:
Calling judges’ official accommodation a “bribe” is cheap sensationalism.

First, welfare is not bribery. Proper housing for judicial officers is part of strengthening institutions. A judge handling multi-billion-naira disputes should not be living in uncertainty or begging landlords.

Second, judicial independence is not protected by poverty. A poorly housed, poorly paid and economically vulnerable judge is easier to compromise. Welfare is actually an anti-corruption tool.

Third, these are not private gifts secretly handed to judges in envelopes. They are official government-provided residences tied to office and institutional welfare. That distinction matters.

Fourth, if improving judges’ welfare is now bribery, then salaries, official cars, security, medical care and retirement benefits must also be called bribes. That is absurd.

Fifth, perception matters, yes. But perception cannot replace logic. The solution is transparency, not hysteria.

Baba-Ahmed’s argument sounds clever, but it collapses under scrutiny. You cannot demand an independent judiciary while opposing the material conditions that make independence possible.

Judges should be well paid, well housed and well protected — not because they are above citizens, but because justice itself must be insulated from desperation, intimidation and inducement.

Poverty is not judicial reform.

A vulnerable judge is a dangerous judge.

Story story story

You are the one trying to be clever by half and not Baba Ahmed

Top legal luminaries have condemned it and insisted that such welfare should be backed by the NJC thru a method designed by them

It's a bribe ..you know that but just pretending to be asleep

You know who also know that? The 10 year old child in your street