₦airaland Forum

Chibuezem:
we don't need to pay tax we need to cut down in the cost on governance
Use our resources adequately.

We do, but it won;t bring much to the treasury. At best, it would add another 1-2 trillion to the budget. At best.

Government spends a lot of money, but as a proportion of the budget? It doesn't do much.

Angelfrost:
The idi00t has been schooled already.

After seeing what happened to Egypt and others, even amateurs like Carrick would never try defending a goal lead.

Tuchel is a useless coach abeg.

England remains unlucky with their coaching choices.

More like England don't have good enough players. Never really have. That's why their tournaments always end in tears. since 66.

obonujoker:
Tuchel na useless coach....

Tuchel that got an England side to the semis in his first try. Not a bad coach. At least he did better than Ancelloti...several champions league, Brazil still got knocked out in the round of 16

engrjacuzzi:
This coach just killed this game. How can you bring in tall defenders to compete setpieces with shorter players. I don't really understand Tomas Tuchel.
The Subs are just not in the game, O'riely, Burn, Konsa....I don't get.
Though I am supporting Argentina but when I see flops I speak.
Now they want to play their normal EPL pattern of play like Stoke City FC

Well, at the end, England have never been good enough to win a major trophy.

femi4:
Now he is trying to bring in striker with 4mins left

Tuchel out

England doesn't and has never had a good enough team to win the world cup since 66. Maybe if they had progressed in 82, they may have had a chance, but no.

The usual it's coming home song will be sung again by England fans until the next world cup.

It's going as I expected.

nairalanda1:
My prediction is England 0-3 Argentina
Second prediction is England 2-2 Argentina . Argentina win on penalities.
Don;t see Argentina losing. England is weak in comparison. Am sure a lot of people will come and tell me stories, but it's Argentina again to win the cup. Maybe when Messi retires, others will have a chance.

I didn't get it, but England isn't winning tho.

If the minister does not resign and allow for an investigation to take place, that just confirms that our government is really really aweful.

Anyway, like I said, Nigerians are not ready for good government.

Freshtruth:
If Messi wins this world cup let the whole world protest. Seeing messi lifting that trophy is a bitter pill to swallow



England we are begging pls make the world happy beat Argentina for us this is too much

It would be painful if Argentina wins the world cup, but at the end of the day, football does not respect your feelings.

In 1994, most people wanted Zambia to beat Nigeria in the AFCON final. The Zambian team had lost most of their first team players in plane crash in 1993, and the team they sent to that AFCON was built from scratch around the five surviving players. But at the end , Nigeria won. People were pained, but it is what it is.

In 2008, Saudi faced Iraq in the final of the Asian footbal cup of nations. Everyone wanted Iraq to win, except Saudi fans, and on paper saudi better pass iraq. Iraq won 1-0.

Argentina takes football seriously. So serious, that their performance in other sports is awful, except for rugby. Nigeria has probably won more medals in track at the Olympics in the last 30 years than Argentina ever did self. Kenya has won more gold medals in track and field than Argentina in the last 100 years even.

If a country wants to win in a sport, it has to take it very serious. Otherwise, forget. England is not taking soccer as serious as it should. At least they are in the semis, which is good, but I don't think they can win.

Argentina 2- England 1.

Or

Argentina 1 England 1, england win via penalties

greatiyk4u:
This is the kind of jobs they will always make public and even follow federal character rules


With OK TICKET, NIGER will soon be OK

You want them to employ only Hausas?

Infact, it is very important that they HAVE TO FOLLOW FEDERAL CHARACTER.

Remember the pogroms of 1966. NO federal character, no neutrality, disaster.

Jmichael1:
I rather join bandit than join any Nigeria force

Bandit may look like life is good, but at the end of the day, they either end up ded, or broke and crippled, with regrets, and psychological trauma that would make them very paranoid.

Better to be a cop. You may die, but you at least have health insurance if ya get hurt. And if you retire in peace, life goes on.

Mitsurugi:
It's not a job for cowards fronting online warriors, biko. We have enough problems with insecurity as it is.

That's why I congratulate you on getting the job, since you are not a coward fronting online warrior.

Good luck on being the sword and shield of the nation

Investigate tinubu and apc for us, we need them out.

And for you successful policemen and women, including the above named, strategies for success

Core Strategies for Success

Communicate and De-escalate: Your words are your most powerful tool. As highlighted in professional law enforcement advice, adapting your tone and showing empathy to suspects, witnesses, and victims can defuse volatile situations faster than physical dominance.

Manage Your Stress: The career is highly taxing. Prioritize a healthy work-life balance, exercise regularly, and talk to trusted colleagues, mentors, or professionals about the difficult things you witness on duty.

Follow Policy and Know the Law: Constantly review your department's manual and general orders. Violating policies can ruin a career, and understanding the nuances of the law is vital for every traffic stop and investigation.

Maintain Court Integrity: Consistently prepare for and attend court hearings. Failing to appear—or failing to properly document your cases—can allow dangerous offenders to walk free


It's an honorable job y'all are doing. If Nigerians do not appreciate you, this one does, good luck.

Ibehchizzy:
This are jobs for helinues
Richtaiwo and dan burob er

And for you, tenses, codetemplarr, and company.

You all deserve the jobs , the people you named and your guys

Good luck in keeping the country safe. It's a good job to hold, being a policeman. You will be the sword and the shield of the nation. It is an honor to defend us against the forces of darkness, evil and apc

EMDIEY:
Oga abeg shift, I don't belong to any of those mediocre geopolitical bias.
I just state the fact as it is. I don't care if it hurts my own people

You do, that;s why you are bitter about the North's votes.

Your bitterness, and the bitterness of many people from your region, is why we have difficulty winning elections in the North. You complain of bigotry from south africans, and you are here doing the same bigotry against your own countrymen because religion and because they no vote for your tribesman, therefore you cannot chop.

In fairness, many Northerners do the same thing too

BOth of you end up harming yourselves with bad leadership.

OneCandleAway:
But they have good soil. They could have a section for animals and a hostel right there where they live. Even if they have to plant and pick cotton let them be confined to that plantation.

Look, that;s not how a farm is set up, abeg.

You have to do premarket analysis, have to even find out if there is a market for the crops, etc.

Besides, why farm? You people do not know that countries in Africa that rely on farming are worse off than Nigeria? Many of them take loans at a rate wey dey pass us, the only reason wy their debt is not bad is because their population is less

Cotton for example is problematic because USA is able to outproduce every African country because their farming is mechanized. That's why countries like Mali, burkina and so forth are broke and poor, despite the propaganda.

Besides, if you want Kebbi to be a productive state, let the state governor tax everyone in the state, let discos be allowed to charge cost reflective tarrifs, let the federal government take loans to do railways , so that at the end it would be profitable to have industries in the state, and then profitable to have education in the state...better.

Not farming. When we have to effing compete with bigger countries that are doing mechanized farming? That's why apart from cocoa, we cannot compete in agric with many countries, especially when it comes to rice.

OneCandleAway:
Why not open a large farm plantation and employ them to work

What crops do you want them to plant? How many of them would be trained to work in the farm? Who would provide the seed money, and how would the markets for the farm product be developed.

Most regions and states did the same thing, and at the end of the day, they all crashed.

EMDIEY:
Only thing the North understands, procreation!
The mumu couples will be happy, whereas it's an investment for the rich elites.
More out of school population of almajiris they whose population they will use to sway election numbers towards the North in the future.
Until people open their eyes and wake up from stupidity, the rich will keep getting richer.

Your interest in the North's population is so that your side wins, and you get the money to chop.

PLus North can lose, Obasanjo proved it in 2003, GEJ in 2011.

ManirBK:
Paying dowry by government
Is a good development

But why No news of mass employment in Kebbi but always mass wedding

If you mean that government should just sit down and give everyone job without any provision for what they would do in the government job, that's even worse than mass marriage, and another road to debt and more debt.

My prediction is England 0-3 Argentina
Second prediction is England 2-2 Argentina . Argentina win on penalities.
Don;t see Argentina losing. England is weak in comparison. Am sure a lot of people will come and tell me stories, but it's Argentina again to win the cup. Maybe when Messi retires, others will have a chance.

JoeEeL:
Better pray hard Messi doesnt lift the WC. All ur opata go enter waste bin.

Well, Argentina is winning the world cup anyway, though.

IbnB:
Bruh...

That's rather productive of you, to show the kind of schooling you had, that instead of rebutting my points with your intellect, you choose to be abusive

Nothing up there, I daresay.

Good evening, Ganymede. Say hi to your lord for me.

being:
U this individual !! Yes Nigerians want free things anf that is not d problem cos that doesn't mean they are not enterprising. Let the govt create enabling environment for production and see how many industries will spring up..
Let the govt lead in fighting corruption. U keep talking about taxes upon taxes... create/encourage industry first and then see taxation increase!

I always hear the word 'enabling environment', but the thing is, 'enabling environment' needs far more money than exists in the budget right now...especially when it comes to things like electricity, railways, a good road network, a good gas pipeline network and security.

Here's a more detailed report

Questions Linger After Nigerian Priest’s Suicide in Massachusetts


By Matthew McDonald

Massachusetts, 14 July, 2026 / 2:44 pm (ACI Africa).

A Catholic priest from Nigeria who killed himself in Massachusetts earlier this month was distraught over being unable to extend his stay in the United States and the recent death of the bishop of his home diocese, people who knew the priest told the Register.

The priest’s death has raised questions over what role the Trump administration’s visa restrictions may have played in the tragedy and over why he was so afraid to return to Nigeria.

Father Benjamin Madu, 54, who had served as a hospital chaplain and a weekend Mass celebrant for a parish collective on Cape Ann, died July 2, according to the Archdiocese of Boston, where he had ministered for the past five years.

Authorities had not released a cause of death as of Monday. But an email message an archdiocesan official sent priests 10 days ago on behalf of Archbishop Richard Henning and seen by the Register said the priest “tragically took his own life.”

A spokesman for the Essex County District Attorney’s Office told the Register the death is under investigation.

The priest’s visa allowing him to stay in the United States was due to expire on July 29, and the Diocese of Abakaliki leadership had directed Father Madu to return to Nigeria even earlier this month, according to the Archdiocese of Boston.

Bishop Ernest Obodo, an auxiliary bishop of a neighboring Nigerian diocese and the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Abakaliki, told the Register he directed Father Madu to come home early so as not to overstay his visa and to give him an opportunity to rest and prepare for his new assignment in the diocese, which was due to start Aug. 4.

“We are still in shock and trauma processing the sudden death of our beloved priest, Fr Ben,” Bishop Obodo told the Register by email.

Feared Returning Home

Father Madu was usually easygoing and cheerful, but his outlook turned after the illness and April 10 death of Bishop Peter Nworie Chukwu, 60, who led Father Madu’s home diocese of Abakaliki, according to Curt Williams, a Congregationalist chaplain at Salem Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts.


“He was very sad, and it changed things for him. There was a level of trust there that he lost. It’s the first time he seemed upset about his future,” said Williams, who told the Register he spoke to Father Madu at least twice a week during the approximately year and nine months they worked together.

While Father Madu had family in Nigeria and would visit them for several weeks around Christmastime, he did not want to move back to Nigeria permanently, though a colleague and four parishioners who knew the priest all told the Register that he never said why.

As July approached, the prospect of returning home appeared to weigh heavily on Father Madu.

On June 14, the priest had a panic attack while driving to St. Joachim Church in Rockport to say Sunday Mass and ended up in the emergency room, he told parishioners at Mass the following week. Father Madu also announced during that June 21 Mass that he would be returning to Nigeria, telling parishioners that “his heart was shattered.”

During an 8:15 a.m. Mass at St. Ann’s in Gloucester that same day, parishioner Janine Boucher said, Father Madu shared that when he was scared as a child, his father would cough and clear his throat, which made him feel better.


“He was like a little boy up there, sharing all these things. And you felt for him,” said Boucher, 62, who attended the priest’s Mass at St. Ann’s Church in Gloucester. “I could feel that sadness and fear — complete fear.”

“This jolly, gentle man was sad. He was crying. He didn’t want to go home and die,” she said.

Paul F. Murphy, who often attended Masses celebrated by Father Madu at St. Joachim, described Father Madu’s death as “heartbreaking.”

“I know people tried, present company included, to help get his visa extended, but his bishop was calling him home,” said Murphy. “But he was clearly scared to go home, and that bothers me greatly — that he had so much stress in his life.”

Some U.S. news reports, such as a July 3 story from The Boston Globe, have implied that Father Madu was afraid to return to Nigeria due to targeted violence against priests in the country. While people who knew Father Madu find that explanation plausible, they say he never mentioned kidnappings and violence or any other reason.



“I sensed he was afraid of something,” said George Lieser, 75, a parishioner who attends St. Joachim. “He never would communicate what it was.”

The Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria reported last year that 145 Catholic priests in the country were kidnapped (many for ransom) between 2015 and 2025, of whom 11 were killed, according to Agenzia Fides.

Violence against Catholic religious figures is less common in the heavily Christian southeast region of Nigeria where Father Madu came from compared to certain other parts of the country. Yet kidnappings have happened there, including in the Diocese of Abakaliki, where a priest and, later, a group of nuns and a seminarian were abducted (and later released) in 2023.

“There is insecurity in Nigeria but we are all going about our mission work with absolute trust in God. The insecurity is widespread in Nigeria but more dangerous in the North,” Bishop Obodo told the Register.

The Visa Problem

Father Madu was in the United States on a religious-worker visa, also known as a R-1 visa. The visa allowed him to stay in the country for five years while working for the Archdiocese of Boston, which in federal-government language was the “petitioner” for the priest, who is known as the “beneficiary.”

To stay in the United States beyond this month, the priest needed to obtain a second R-1 visa, which would have granted him up to five additional years. To get it, he would have had to leave the country first before applying.

That process theoretically got easier in January 2026, when the Trump administration ended a requirement that R-1 visa beneficiaries wait 12 months before applying.

The development was welcomed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who have urged the Trump administration to streamline the R-1 visa process. Many U.S. dioceses depend on foreign priests for parish ministry.

But according to immigration lawyers who spoke to the Register, other recent changes made by the U.S. government have made the prospect of obtaining or renewing R-1 visas difficult for priests from Nigeria and certain other countries.

In December 2025, President Donald Trump added certain countries deemed “high risk,” with special restrictions on entry into the United States, including Nigeria. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began what it calls a “hold and review” policy, pausing consideration of visa applications for beneficiaries from high-risk countries.

The Register spoke with Ogor Winnie Okoye, an immigration lawyer with an office in Lynn, Massachusetts, who was born in Nigeria and moved to the United States in her 20s. Okoye, who did not know Father Madu, said the federal government’s pause in considering visa applications for Nigerians has affected religious workers trying to come to the United States and likely affected Father Madu.

“It would have been an easy route for him if he left and there was no pause,” said Okoye, referring to the hold on processing visa applications. “A lot of things were just not working in his favor.”

Entry into the United States on R-1 visas can be denied either by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in this country, by the U.S. consulate in the person’s home country, or by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who interviews a foreign national at an airport or port of entry, said Lance Conklin, an immigration lawyer in Maryland who has been helping religious workers get visas for many years.

In recent years, he said, U.S. consulates (which are under the U.S. Department of State) have been the hardest for his clients to deal with in certain countries, including in Nigeria.

“R-1 visas in general have been denied in consulates. That’s always the risk anywhere. Nigeria is more problematic than most,” Conklin told the Register.

But Conklin, who did not know Father Madu, also said that the publicly known facts of his case don’t lend themselves to an easy interpretation.

“There’s nothing that’s obvious to me on what his issue was. It’s hard to know what it was,” Conklin said.

The Register contacted the press office of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on Monday morning but did not hear back by publication of this story. The U.S. Department of State acknowledged a request for comment on Monday but did not provide one by publication of this story.

‘A Really Fine Man’

Father Madu had served as a chaplain at Salem Hospital, about a half-hour from Cape Ann, since May 2021. He began helping out at the parish collaborative on Cape Ann in April 2022, according to the church bulletin.

Parishioners told the Register that churchgoers initially had trouble understanding his accent when he first started saying Mass there, but that they got used to it and warmed up to him.

“He was a really, really fine man — gentle, great smile, loved interacting with people,” said Murphy, who serves as chairman of the elected board that oversees town government in Rockport.

Boucher recalled that Father Madu was gentle and quiet by nature, but he became “vibrant and enthusiastic” when he was proclaiming the Gospel or preaching.

Lieser said Father Madu got people singing during Sunday Mass.

“He was a sweet man who brought his culture, his faith — his simple, kind of joyous faith — to every Mass that he said. I loved his approach. He was genuine, and you knew he meant what he preached,” Lieser, a commercial mortgage banker, told the Register. “So he had a little touch of Southern Baptist revivalism. It was good for stodgy New Englanders.”

Williams, who worked alongside Father Madu at Salem Hospital, said Father Madu seemed overworked. Many Catholics go to Salem Hospital, Williams said, so the demand for the sacrament of anointing of the sick was heavy and emotionally draining, and the priest’s parish work during his time off from the hospital added to the stress.

“He was definitely not a complainer. But you’d see sometimes where he was tired,” Williams said. “He needed a break.”

‘Anger, Confusion’

Lieser said that after Father Madu’s June 21 announcement that he would be leaving the U.S., he offered to help assemble an immigration law team to help the priest extend his visa, but that he eventually declined.

“He said he would think about it, but he was reluctant,” Lieser recalled.

Some in the parish are angry about the visa problems Father Madu encountered before his death.

“As we mourn and pray for Father Ben, we must accept the awful truth that we are all responsible for this tragedy,” wrote Brother Patrick Garvey, a diocesan hermit who ministers in the parish, in the parish bulletin. “Father Ben deserved better from the Church. He deserved better from our country. He definitely deserved better from me. Maybe he deserved better from all of us.”

Lieser said the Archdiocese of Boston should have fought harder for the priest against the Trump administration’s restrictions on visas for Nigerians.

“It’s racist. It’s unjust. It’s wrong. And the diocese should stand up and say that,” Lieser said. “Maybe they did everything they really could do. I’m just not convinced.”

Terrence Donilon, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston, said the archdiocese did everything it could to help Father Madu.

“We tried everything humanly possible to help him stay in Massachusetts. We consulted with experienced immigration attorneys, we looked at the policy of the government that had changed, and we were simply met with the reality at every step he had to return to Nigeria,” Donilon told the Register by text.

Boucher, who captured the last known images of Father Madu via a cellphone video as he recessed out of Mass on June 21, told the Register on Tuesday that the priest’s death has dominated conversation at Janine’s Fitness, a business she runs in Rockport.

She also said that neither she nor the parishioners she has talked with are blaming U.S. immigration and visa restrictions for the priest’s death.

“We don’t know what really happened. May never know,” Boucher said. “But God knows.”

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It's all very well, but the government is not yet ready to provide sustainable education funding, because it means some politically uncomfortable choices.

Am sure some young people now will come and yell at me.

Well, at the end of the day, an education budget that isn't up to what Harvard university spends in a year is not enough for over 230 million people, and by extension and implication, not enough to provide modern up to date education , vocational or otherwise.

But most nigerians are not ready to listen to me, since I am apparently non compos mentis for suggesting that Nigeria needs to change its economic paradigm and stop making the same mistakes over and over again.

AndroBlaze:
A Catholic priest committing suicide ... more evidence that the typical Nigerian takes whatever lucrative occupation is available to them!!

A lot of people are doing professions that they are not called to do, but they want to do for all sorts of mercenary reasons. And it's not only Nigerians.

There are probably a lot of clergy accross all religions and all doctrines who took the job because they were in a way far more interested in their comfort than they were in their living the life of sacrifice. And again, it's something that happens worldwide. Not just in Nigeria.

B3sty:
Your opinion though,
Messi is miles ahead of Mbappe, anyday anytime ....
Messi, the Original GOAT 🐐🐐🐐

Not possible. Messi is playing in the USA. Inter Miami won the equivalent of the english fa cup, but they did not win the league. And they have never won the concacaf champions cup either.

9JAMac10:
​Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly considering playing in the 2030 World Cup.

​Portugal co-hosting, combined with the team's high chances of winning the tournament, are key factors driving this possibility.

Ronaldo would be forty five by then. He isn't coming back, no how, no how. At best he would be on the bench as either the coach or at least the striker's coach.(like Henry did for Belgium).

Argentina to beat England 3-0

Messi to lift world cup number 2.

France was really a mess v spain.