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patrikoolar:
China rose from an underrated country in the '70's, whose population could only find work in foreign countries like the United States, as rail road builders and chefs, to the most commercially viable entity in the world.

Nigerians need a common dream and a rallying point to surmount all challenges.

Otherwise we'd be relegated to doom scrolling through others doing well.

China not having election every 4 years help them. Election introduces bitter division among the citizens - that is one of the cons of democracy - a case study of the USA and Nigeria.

For China, it is easier to achieve a long-term plan than all the countries practicing democracy

ogugwa1992:
The £2 Million Question: What Really Happened at Harrods? How the Diezani Alison-Madueke trial became a masterclass in narrative inflation by Bolouere Opukiri




https://leaders.ng/2026/01/29/the-2-million-question-what-really-happened-at-harrods-how-the-diezani-alison-madueke-trial-became-a-masterclass-in-narrative-inflation/

Whoever wrote this rebuttal should be ashamed.

You were doing a PR job for this looter in an overdrive.

Thankfully, the judgement would be in a few weeks' time, and you would have egg on your face.

This woman should be executed for all the evils she had done. She lavished money and all those guys that wanted oil contracts and oil licenses spent heavily on her and got what they wanted.

Her phone messages even indicted her. The UK jury is not stupid. When she's committed to jail with all these ill-gotten properties sold with the money remitted to Nigeria, your eyes would clear.

A woman that would shop, paid and forgot to even pick up the items from the store. There were first hand witness against her.

She would be committed to the prison last last.

A Nigerian oil minister went on "extravagant and excessive" spending sprees at high-end London stores with money from bribes by industry insiders, a London court has heard.
During a visit to Harrods in 2013, Diezani Alison-Madueke ordered thousands of pounds worth of rugs, including by luxury brand Alexander McQueen, Southwark Crown Court was told.
Prosecutors allege the 65-year-old was provided with "a life of luxury in the United Kingdom" by those interested in Nigerian government contracts.
Alison-Madueke, who was Nigeria's minister of petroleum resources between 2010 and 2015, denies five counts of accepting bribes and a charge of conspiracy to commit bribery.

The court heard that during the Harrods visit in November 2013, Alison-Madueke was allegedly accompanied by Nigerian businessman Kolawole Aluko and a security guard.

According to a sales executive working in the store, the then-minister looked "extremely glamorous and was wearing very expensive clothing".
Alison-Madueke was also a regular shopper at Vincenzo Cafferella, a decorative arts and furniture store in north London, where she was known as "Sharon D", the court was told.

The prosecution alleges that between October 2012 and November 2013, Aluko bought various items, including lamps and tables, for Alison-Madueke costing more than £370,000.

The court heard Alison-Madueke would also spend hours in Thomas Goode, a china and silverware shop in Mayfair, and once arrived with an entourage of about four or five people.

A worker there remembered her loving the sales and saying to him: "I don't even know why I'm buying this, I haven't got the room for it."

The court was told items were often bought but not collected and that Alison-Madueke never paid for anything herself.

Instead, the bills were understood to be settled by Aluko and other Nigerian businessmen said to own energy companies that had lucrative contracts with the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation when Alison-Madueke was oil minister.

The court was also told about shipments of furniture bought for Alison-Madueke from a luxury store in Houston, Texas for several properties in London which the prosecution allege were used by the former minister.

Two of the properties were said to be bought by Nigerian businessman Benedict Peters. The jury was shown photographs from inside one of them, which included items allegedly bought for Alison-Madueke.

[b]
Alison-Madueke's driver recalled collecting her and then-President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan from the same address, the court heard. [\b]

[b] Other spending on the minister's behalf allegedly included £89,410 to charter a jet from Luton to Lagos in Nigeria in January 2012, as well as a delivery of £100,000 cash from a bank in north London to her at a nearby flat.

The court was also told that Alison-Madueke's phone was seized in 2015 during police searches, revealing recorded conversations in which she is said to have confronted Aluko over suggestions he had spoken about the gifts given to her at a time when their relationship was breaking down.

In a conversation in May 2014, Alison-Madueke told Aluko she was really annoyed, given that she and others had "stuck our necks out" when negotiating oil mining leases.

"I will be happy to escort all of you to jail along with myself… you'll be shocked what I will do", she is alleged to have said, adding: "I will come out and tell the Nigerian people this is what happened.
"Oh yes, I will blame myself… I will come out openly and say it so that they can judge me openly. And then all of us go and sit on the gate let us see who survived."

In another instance, Igho Sanomi, an oil executive whose company was awarded Nigerian state contracts between 2011 and 2015, carried out shopping errands in London for Alison-Madueke, the court heard.
Text messages recovered from her phone showed Sanomi pledging his "loyalty and commitment", and agreeing to collect Louis Vuitton hat boxes, replying: "Yes Your Excellency consider this done".
By 2014 he expressed concern their relationship was deteriorating and so he allegedly sent Alison-Madueke an email calling himself her "true soldier".

Three weeks later, Sanomi's company was part of a consortium that was awarded a new oil mining lease by her, the court heard.
Alison-Madueke's brother, former bishop Doye Agama, 69, is also charged with conspiracy to commit bribery, with prosecutors claiming he was paid £1.2m in bribes by businessman Peters.
The payments were intended to "induce Alison-Madueke to perform her duties as the Nigerian minister of petroleum resources improperly," lawyers told the court.
Also on trial is industry executive Olatimbo Ayinde, 54, who is charged with one count of bribery relating to Alison-Madueke and a separate count of bribery of a foreign public official.
Both Agama and Ayinde deny the charges.
The trial continues.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgjprg5828o

Kaa4:
If Nigeria had protested, Morocco would have been sanctioned, as well as the Ghanaian referee who travelled home immediately to a hero's welcome.

Nigeria lost that match due to improper refereeing

Nigeria was no match for the Moroccan.

We were lucky to make it to the penalty.

Was it the referee that made the Moroccans outplayed us? Check the statistics.

Then stop clawing at the straw. What had Ghanaians celebrating their own got to do with our loss in Morocco?

GanagiBitrus:
Well, no amount of sanctions will deny Senegal of being 2025 AFCON champions. 🏆

But even with availability of VAR, the officiating was terrible, especially that Senegal's goal that was cancelled.
Very valid goal & yet not even a VAR review.

That Referee should also be sanctioned.
After disallowing that goal, he should have equally not given the penalty, &let the match be decided in extra time.

That goal was not valid knowing fully well the referee had blown his whistle before the Senegalese put it inside the net.


Also there was a foul committed by the Senegalese player on the Moroccan defender leading to the goal.

Don’t let be emotional here

omoredia:
As long as they are not from terrorists countries it is fine. Let wealthy arab countries take in people with similar religion and cultures. Thats what Trump is saying

Where is your data that support this

The current handler of Nnamdi Kanu’s wife is the real MVP 😄😄

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/alaafin-soun-absent-as-makinde-kicks-off-oyo-50th-anniversary/

Oyo state at 50 but this current Governor has sent oyo state indigenes to be living in 10AD.

It’s sad there’s no strong voice of the opposition. Makinde gets away with all his excesses.

Oyo state indigenes will be the loser in that a one week anniversary. Makinde should tell us he much is spent on such frivolities.

Nwaikpe:


I wish you knew what the United States is.

It is not Rome
It is not Byzantine.
It not Great Britain

She is like x1000 of those three combined together.

Says a General in the US military who is just flexing on naira land 😄

TheStoriesOfMan:
Infact if you tell a company that you cannot generate an accurate and appropriate prompt for codes, they'll throw the applicant outta the door.

I did an interview for a guy last year. I asked him: "do you think having extensive knowledge of of coding without knowing how to generate a prompt can grant you this job?"

He was optimistic, but was wise to detect my body language with a smile.

He replied: "sir I too use AI too but not much.".

I then commented with: "you see, be plain with me because I know these things"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Then you have not worked in an enterprise environment before. You claimed to recruit an applicant based on the fact that they could query an LLM to generate codes for them. That sucks!. Is that what programming has been reduced to or you dont know the level of understanding and complexities require ?

Dogalmighty17:
With AI slated and even beginning to wipe out a lot of entry level tech jobs, the global consensus is that tech isn't really the hot cake it used to be. That field is already very competitive. With just a simple prompt in Gemini, it gave me the code for an app that randomly generates numbers following a set pattern. It even offered a number of other features that I found useful.

I think cloud and DevOps still holds good prospects though. But DevOps isn't for everyone. I think that's the most frustrating aspect of tech. But the money is good from what I hear. A friend who moved to the UK years ago specialized in DevOps and from what he showed me, last year he saved close to 500 million naira after tax. He is quite sort after and travels all over the world. It took him 8 years to get there and he plans to retire this year at 42.

He encourages young folks who have a passion for tech to go into it but they need to be very intentional about it. In 10-15 years just about every aspect of tech will be AI dominated but cloud technologies still hold bright and vast potentials for anyone willing to put in the level of work ethic and dedication required.

No serious company will employ you if this is all you know how to do.
Tell me, how will you even ace the interview for job? By telling recruiter you can generate codes through prompt and copy and paste?

Coding is pure engineering. It is more than LLM generating codes for you.

EDGEof2MORO:
not happening. the world cup will still hold in the U.S. this year. the country does not need money from fans and visitors as they can clearly print money from thin air while the rest of the world suffers inflation for it.

If it was Russia that did what the U.S. did, and it was to host the 2026 World Cup, by now, they would have cancelled it or relocated the event to another country.

The US don’t just print money that way. The whole world is watching them and once they lose confidence in the dollars, that’s the end.

The US can’t just print money anyhow , otherwise they would have printed money to settle the crushing weight of debt they are currently under.

zinaunreal:
Even killing his own citizen via rougue ice. The country is very unstable for now

Why anyone will dream of coming to the US now beats me?

The environment is too toxic. The atmosphere is tense. Civil war can break out at any time - for a country where more that half of the population owns a gun, that’s too frightening.

Donald Trump has set the US back 50 years backward.

Ofunaofu:
When Tinubu thoughtlessly removed fuel subsidy and plunged Nigerians into unimaginable suffering, with the pump price of petrol rising to N1,300 per litre and above, this same government and their hordes of supporters claimed it was “petroleum sector reform.”

They told Nigerians that fuel was still the cheapest in Africa and even in the world, and that prices would continue to rise because Buhari who maintained the pump price below N200 per litre was subsidising fuel for the entire West Africa and beyond.

Now they are telling us another story: that Tinubu’s so-called reforms are the reason the price is coming down.

Sense is everything.
I know you want to be buying petrol at 50 naira per litre, I am sorry to disappoint, it can never happen again.

Have you thought of the cost of production of one litre of petrol? Which sane country sells petrol lesser than the cost of production?
Yet you never ask yourself how the refineries would be maintained after selling lesser than the cost of production.

The time of the "prodigal son" is over. Get real with reality

Smokeybrain:
US don give France liver


Genius J

US gives a nuclear-armed nation liver?

Una well so?

EnEnPeecee:
Division is the only option good for us. Everyone should go his or her own way

Too many kids on this platform.

LagosOrigin:
That's the point here
Fella is a political activist not a musical artist like Wizkid.

Wizkid is greater than fela.

Fela not a musical artist? What would you call Bob Marley? Not a musical artist too, right?

How do they communicate their grievances to the authorities? - By singing or talking?

Wizkid and Fela will never be on the same pedestal till the end of the age.

Do you guys know what you are even talking about here?

jmoore:
It is a loan, not a grant.

Better go find work and start paying back.

They have your bvn. If you refuse to pay back, they will deduct the money by themselves.

It is a leap for Nigeria.

I never knew I would witness this in Nigeria in my lifetime.

Applaud it when you see something good.

smileyoo:
Mr, all these your childish stories are baseless, because there is no perfect system anywhere in the world, but any government that the citizens are slaughtered daily in large numbers with nauseating impunity, by these crazy jihadists terrorists as presently obtainable in Nigeria, is simply a useless government that can never be defended by any normal human being.
why not use this your energy to take your useless government to task as regards the protection of lives and properties of Nigerians, which is the primary responsibility of any government, instead of asslicking the useless politicians, even with their glaring irresponsible leadership.
These terrorists and their evil supporters must realize that there is nothing like silent killings and land grabbings anymore, because the world is now a global village .

I had to fight the restraint to reply to you because normally I will just pass.

So, if you are being slaughtered on a daily basis, it is the white man's you are waiting for to solve your problem? Okay. Do you have an idea how much Tomahawk missile costs? Google will be your friend. How much are you contributing to prosecute the war? As a forever-leech whom you are, you expect the Americans to use their own taxpayer's money to fight in your land without anything in return, right?

How ironic when Nigeria interfered in Republic of Benin military coup, all of you were wailing to high heaven, yet you expected the US to spend millions of taxpayer's dollars to fight your war. Go and read the polls, Americans, which I am one, reject the idea of war in Nigeria because that is not what we need our taxpayer's money to go into.

Come to the US and see how people are lamenting and struggling.
Stop being a leech, these white people die in their hundreds as a result of gun violence too.
It is no brainer's why the first year of Trump is polled as a failure. Most americans reject the way he goes about things and he knows that he is losing the midterm election come November, reason he is unleashing his madness indiscriminately. By November, his excesses will be checked.

SmartPolician:
No, you sit in your cesspit and think we don't travel.

I won't reply you again

I don't have time for foolish people

I will give you the benefit of doubt that you travel but you are not exposed.

We have Nigerians who can not process the economic indices of what is happening in Nigeria.
Over there, we have lot of people who live there but only focused on work without understanding the trajectory of the economy and politics of the country they are in.

So, it does not stop at you just hopping into plane and travel to wherever, you also need a strong processing grey matter - brain - to understand what is going with empirical facts, which obviously is lacking in this regards.

nedu666:
America has 35 trillion dollars in debt in their currency. Nigeria has 135 trillion naira debt.

I am done responding to you as you are incapable of intellectual discourse.

The figure you quoted for Nigeria debt was so wrong.
Nigeria debt as at 2026 stands at 108 billion USD and you want to compare that to the US debt which stands at 38.5 TRILLION dollars

You well so?

Sermwell:
What you should ask yourself is that...were the shooters caught? Were they caught and prosecuted? Did they go to jail for their crimes??

Would your answer be the same for this your useless government?
. again, who don pass you, don pass you

You guys keep changing the goal posts.
You asked me if such could happen in the US and I showed you dastardly acts that had taken place in the US, yet you were talking about being caught.

Would being caught replace the lives lost?. It shows the US govt could not protect the lives of their citizens. Straight and simple.

Did they change what is responsible for the unfortunate incidents?

You sit your arse in Nigeria without understanding the fears that envelope parents when their wards go to schools - they are not certain if the kids will return alive. I can bet you do not have half of the fears in Nigeria.

Life seemingly looks green from the other side but when you eventually find your way to that "other side", you will now start to appreciate where you have left because in reality, the "other side" is not as green as you think

SmartPolician:
I didn't read beyond this

It takes well matured grey matter to understand the rest

Sermwell:
You mean 100 people will be kidnapped in Minnesota and the American government will do nothing?? Who don pass you don pass you!

I suggest you click on this link to give you a realistic view of disasters that happened in their countries, which sadly is still ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll

D1official:
They have ruled the world for close to a century now with a GDPof over 22Trillion USD.

What do you have?

Why did you leave out the crushing debt they are carrying, so overwhelming that they are worried about what tommorrow holds

See attached and pay good attention to the Debt-to-Gdp debt ratio. That explains why Moody downgraded US credit rating.

Let me explain it to you like a kid - yearly, America spends more that they earn. It is not sustainable!

SmartPolician:
Their citizens are a bunch of privileged people who don't know the value of what they have.

It's funny to hear that[b] citizens hate a government that pays them stipends for being unemployed[/b]....a government that gives them money to start their own businesses. A government that makes the environment fertile for businesses to thrive.

Their problem is that they haven't visited other parts of the world to see what others go through in the hands of their government. To see what it means for a government to loot your resources and spend them on prostitutes.

If Nigerian government could be as half responsive and responsible as the US government, nobody would be here criticising Tinubu.

You people that have not been to the airport sitting comfortably on the discourse you know nothing about.

Tell me the name of the country that gives their citizens money to start business. Too much hearsay and imagination don finish you. If you want to start any business in any country, you take loan from the bank, not the responsibility of the Government but you guys lie to much to make a point.

Regarding the "stipends" you mentioned, the working class people contribute into the social purse through tax. The same tax Nigeria asked you guys to pay but looking for one excuse or the other not to pay, yet you want your unemployed to be paid "stipends". You guys are simply impossible.

Have you heard of "Watergate scandal" before in the US. If you have not, go and read about it. Politicians steal all over the world. Go and read about the US humongous defence budget, they steal the money their heavily, and that explains why they always run a budget deficit.
No country has power to dictate to another sovereign country - that's what international laws dictate. The same law that has put a stop to another world war till date. US was the main architect of this law and the same US is the one that is scattering the law right now.

jmoore:
Where is your Tinubu? Has he said anything about the kidnapping?
USA has leaking roof while Nigeria doesn't have a house.
A house with a leaking roof is better than no house.

says someone who does not know what self worth is all about.

SmartPolician:
Oga, remove that black and white politics because Nigerians have, over the years, shown they are terrible humans in the leadership circus.

You guys worship and lick the arses of the whites.
Go to their countries and see how the citizens hate their own government - the same government you feel can solve your own situations in africa.

Inflation has finished them in the States. You have no idea. Taxpayers money being wastefully spent to prosecute what doesnt concern the citizens. Let me put straight to you - Trump does not like you as black people. He hates you with a passion. Stop trying to warm up to him. Greenlanders who are predominantly whites reject being part of the US cos they have seen how native americans are treated in their own land.

Too much of Hollywood movie is the problem of most Nigerians.

yinkeys:
Insecurity
Only a matter of time before US installs a caretaker despite CIC partial loyalty obedience to them
All the events are lining up to it
Incompétence in power makes Nigeria look like a joke

Nigeria matter will be resolved by Nigerian people.

US sells democracy like gala yet they are the only country in the world to vote in a convicted felon as President - if any country has done that, they will say he is an illegitimate president.

Where is that Moral ground for the US to leverage on? A narcissistic man who is taking the world to the past where more powerful countries could just take over the lands and resources of other weaker countries, just because they could.

A bully that could do nothing to even Iran. Iran Ayatollah never stopped insulting him, and yet what has he done despite saying "help is on the way". They must have advised him that if he attacks,Iran would go down but the US would also count their losses at their military bases in the middle east.

Shame on Trump

They need to face the riot hapening in Minnesota.

Its a shame that black people feel subservient to these folks who seem to get their noses in world affairs but ignore their own house roofs leaking.

HallahGeisher:
The US is right to do everything in its capacity to deter or Putin Russia and China in checks . Not the way the UK and Europe are going around without balls. They only specialize in recolonizing Africa and annexing the whole of Africa without remorse and stealing her resources and creating crisis everywhere on the planet.

What did the US do to the native americans?

Kingpele:
Trump needs to calm down insulting UK PM is like insulting Nato which is your allay ,except he want to destabilise NATO bloc and give China, Russia the upper hand

Trump doesnt believe in international alliance. He feels the US can do it alone.

Denmark recorded so many death when their soldiers fought alongside the US military in Afghanistan and Iran. No ally recorded more deaths than Denmark, yet the Trump's US wants to take their land. An act of betrayal.

The only country that article 5 was ever activated for in NATO was the US but still quite ungrateful. Their military will be over stretched without their allies fighting by their sides.

Shame to Trump!