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Nnamdi Kanu is a goner. He does not know that there is NOTHING the UK consular service can provide for him to ensure his freedom. They can only ensure that his fundamental rights are respected during the trial. Foreigners are always advised by their respective Governments to abide with the local laws of the countries they are visiting. To all the people that are thinking that the UK govt will go into war with Nigeria over Nnamdi Kanu, you are all suffering from delusional grandeur.

Why is Nairaland mod pushing this thread to the front page. Are you so much after traffic that you lost your morality. Small kids are reading this. Is this a veiled attempt to push them into the scourge of yahoo business that has become a pandemic to us as a nation? Very pathetic.

Falana is daily sinking deeper into a huge hole. Some of his utterances will make Gani Fawehinmi squirm in his grave. So much for a SAN.

SpatialKing:
When will they prosecute former service chiefs

Whenever you have concrete, empirical evidence, they will be prosecuted. Whenever you know that court doesn't rely on hearsay. Whenever you know that law is premised on "innocence before guilt".

Something is obviously wrong with us as a Nation. EfCC closed its case in 2013, justice delivered in 2021, which means it took the defendants 8 years to present it's case. Our administration of justice needs complete overhaul. What happens to the mantra "Justice delayed is justice denied". How long did it take to arraign and convict Chauvin in the states?

It is a shame that Ibadan has been turned to slaughter slab by this so-called NURTW Chairman. This was the man that killed OAU final year student at Iwo Road during a mayhem, he was arraigned and jailed, only for this current Governor - Seyi Makinde - to ignore all calls and put an ex convict as the NURTW Chairman in Oyo State.

Ajimobi of blessed memory ensured that the NURTW did not hold the state captive during his reign, the security has been reversed during this current dispensation. Shame!

Gerrard59:
Is the US suffering from herdsmen crises, murders and Islamic terrorism across the country?

No offense meant, but can you please deepen this discourse intellectually ?. I cant seem to relate your submission with the subject matter.

Al Mustapha would forever remain a persona non grata in the history of Nigeria. We do not care again about how the wicked soul died. You were attempting to launder your own image by telling tales we are disinterested in. You will always remain EVIL.

How this guy ends up to be a Governor of an oil rich state will eternally remain a puzzle. US is the most indebted nation in the world, yet the strongest economically. Our mainstay of revenue has dwindled, we have no choice than to borrow. It is not borrowing that is the problem but what you use it to do.

Who gives this man an attention? Stealing our money and still throwing it in our faces.

Those untrained louts will turn to a State Police. What a statement coming from a supposedly SAN

I am presently in Oyo State and I can confirm nothing is boiling here . Peace all around with people going about their businesses calmly.

PlayMaker14:
We all know that if Nigeria were to be the host of this tournament under this administration, it would be a Cow with the tournament match ball strapped on it's belly moving and shitting it's way to the centre circle of the pitch to deliver with the help of a fulanized Minister wearing caftan and coat.

Take a look at the last picture and see the way Chiellini was smiling like a dude who finally screwed the hard-to-get chic.

What you described could have been very novel. You felt it would showcase us in bad light but that was so ingenious.

He is my president and I am so proud of his accomplishments. I voted for you and you haven't let me down.

A lot of people castigating you can't even string together thoughtful reasons why they do so. You hurt them because you stopped them in their tracks of mindlessly raping the country. Your intention is clear for the country and no one can fault your sincerity of purpose.

They still want to continue the era of looting by the few while putting majority of people in abject poverty. You even jailed governors that belong to your party due to corruption. Ride on my President. You have the back of the progressive and not people that their hearts have been blinded with hatred .

Nigeria's influential pastor TB Joshua, who has died aged 57, was considered a pariah among the country's mega-televangelists and struggled until his death to be accepted within their circles, despite amassing millions of followers across Africa.

Ostracised by both the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) he was described as an "impostor" who belonged to a group of "occults" that had infiltrated Christianity.

But Mr Joshua was no different from the other televangelists who have held many Nigerians in their grip with their "prosperity messages" since the early 1990s.

Most of them are more dramatic and perform the same "miracles", but Mr Joshua - who headed the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) - was not part of their clique.

"He was rough. He was crude. His methods were unorthodox," says Abimbola Adelakun, assistant professor in the African Studies Department at the University of Texas.

'They thought he was fake'

Mr Joshua came from a poor background and was brought up by his Muslim uncle following the death of his Christian father.

He mostly wore a jalabia - a loose-fitting garment worn by Muslims, and kept a moustache that gave him an intense look.

When Mr Joshua started his ministry on television in the mid-90s, his hair did not glisten, his shoes were not shiny and he did not have an American twang - he spoke with a Yoruba accent, and a mixture of English and Pidgin.

His followers found him charismatic and down-to-earth, and his message spread around the world.

Mr Joshua refined himself as he became wealthy, adding a fleet of cars and a private jet to look the part, but he remained an outsider.

Most Nigerian pastors are products of a mentorship scheme where senior pastors are referred to as "daddy/mummy in the Lord".

"They don't believe you can stand on your own without having anyone to defer to," says Gbenga Osinaike, publisher of Nigeria's leading Pentecostal publication.

"The extreme charismatic movements feel you need a mentor - Paul, father of Timothy, Elijah, father of Elisha, and all that. They thought he was fake and the relationship was frosty."

Born on 12 June 1963, Mr Joshua also did not help himself with outlandish claims - one of them being that he was in his mother's womb for 15 months.

To witness his prayer sessions in the early days of his televised ministry was to be treated to exorcism that many felt bordered on the occult.

Some of it felt like a hypnotic session, others like that of a magician at work.

Read more here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57388592

The way we throw around figure here without empirical fact is funny. How did the tool arrive at 2 billion naira daily.

Sensational news

seunmsg:
Nigeria has taken the lead, other countries will follow. Foreign Big techs can not be allowed to censor speeches of legitimately elected leaders of democratic countries. It’s an aberration that must be dealt with.

You are wrong. It's the United States that took the lead. Go and read about "section 230" that Trump was pushing.

If social media is left uncontrolled, it will lead to the doom of this world. There has to be a fine balance.

Nigerians no get time to activate VPN in order to access Twitter. Lot of people don't even have Twitters account. With time, Twitter will die a natural death here.

WoundedLamb:
For me, the issue is not whether Twitter was right or wrong for deleting the president's tweets. The issue is that in a bid to get back at Twitter, the president dragged the entire nation into it. Twitter deleted his tweets and he's moving to block the entire nation of about 200 million people from accessing the app without VPN as if the country is his personal property and the opinion of the people doesn't matter. Even the people praising him for this are also caught up in the middle of what shouldn't even concern them cause he'll only end up stressing everyone, the organization and his citizens alike.

Stop typing nonsense. Buhari was elected as the President and the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, with the mandate to take a decision on behalf of almost 200 million people. He swore to protect and defend the constitution.

It was ok for you guys for Trump to seriously attempt to control the social media by introducing section 230. You guys were cheering him on then. But it is ok for Twitter to allow Nnamdi Kanu's inciting write up on Twitter, openly encouraging Nigerian soldiers to be killed in the East while you were expecting the President to fold his arms and be watching why madness continues to reign in the East.

Reason it now.

Sweetaura:
Was the tweet reported? Buhari's tweet was removed because Nigerians reported it.

It was reported. And this social media companies have infrastructure and robust algorithm in place to monitor what are being posted on their platforms. Twitter's action was inexcusable and dodgy.

Trump's United States attempted to do worse on ALL social media and then, a section of this country kept cheering him on.

Now that the case was reversed, some people in Nigeria were twisting it to suit their narratives. Any reasonable leader will take action on any entities, individuals or group of people that try to undermine the Nation.

Buhari's tweet was deleted on Twitter but Nnamdi Kanu's message on Twitter, openly inciting people to kill Nigerian soldiers was allowed to stand. That's a double standard!, and a credence to the fact that Twitter might arguably be biased with a dangerous intention to torpedo the country.

APOSTLECHUMA:
OBJ THANKS FOR INDIRECTLY TELLING BUHARI TO USE DIALOGUE INSTEAD OF HIS PRESENT MILITARY APPROACH.

Just like OBJ used in Odi community. Right?

pedrilo:
Oga shut up.
We had GEJ but u campaigned against him for buhari.
U led us here
Shut up b4 u provoke s youths

So you meant you would have voted for GEJ for 2nd term. With the humongous looting go on at that time, this country would have been reduced to Somalia.

ensamy:
The President of the federal republic of Nigeria is the one drumming for war. Biafra is prepared to defend itself.

How if I may ask? Some rag tags were destroying things in the East and they are being cheered on, and you still expect the FGN to fold its hands and be looking. No President in the world will sit by while his country is being consumed in violence.

If FGN should raise the game, your lot will be writing UN, US, UK etc. to intervene.

Nnamdi Kanu ran abroad and egging people on in Nigeria to engage in violence. Let it be clear, these rag tags cannot withstand the military might of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Learn from history.

Engage the FGN through dialogue, rather than picking up arms against the States. Don't bank on the support from the foreign countries, it is not guaranteed. They only go where they can benefit and I cant see anything on ground that will make any nation risks its taxpayer's money to support a needless war.

People drumming for war should be conscious of their action. War is more than what you watch in an American movie. Mother will run and forget about her suckling child. Jet bombers flying low will send jitters down the spine of any individual. Our differences can be resolved by dialogue. War is never the solution.

gambia:
The fuel should sell for 500. Mad people, its a welcome development, by the time Buhari and his deluded team members are done with Nigerians, even their gullible followers will prefer to stay in Somalia.

I doubt you read the article. What has Buhari got to do with it? Don't give a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

Shame on all the governors. So shameless that they are still giving conditions before they can implement what is clearly stated in the Constitution, which they swore to protect and defend.

Dduce12:
Why sharing the same pics Op. I'm looking for the mess in the images

If blocking major roads and causing nuisance are not mess enough for you, then what is your definition of a mess. We are spending hours in total gridlock here.

You want Nigeria to be like the United States but you want to continue living as if you are in a Stone age.

I was shocked to see political thugs in their multitude blocking major roads under the full glare of police and Amotekun, all in the name of political campaign.

These individuals that claim to wish to serve the people are already unleashing untold hardship on the same people they want to serve. They blocked all the roads.

The thugs are openly threatening people, smoking weeds , while the police and amotekun look on.

The citizens have no chance to question the contestants. It is just jamboree.

Is this how we will continue as a people and nation?