₦airaland Forum

manuelkel:
Nothing like being a sadist, let's speak the truth oga. Our politicians are spending our funds irrationally. What happened to building and maintenance companies then employ them ?? Of what use would these sewing machines add to the economy of Nigeria. Tufiakwa

Oga,it shows you’re deft of what moves an economy!
Please tell me one of the basic necessity of life? Clothing is vital ,at a time Nigeria economy was vibrant with the textile industries and the fashion world blossoms.
But our industries were allowed to die due to preference for foreign clothes!
Is that not Mr Peter Obi preaching "from Consumption to Production" . Man must be clothed bro!

franchasng:
Grinding machine, no be when people see food to eat them go patronize grinding machine shops?

Instead of grinding machine, empower them with mechanized farm tools to enable them produce something from nothing, not this grinding machine that will litter every corner of the state and make it more dirtier than it was


Our leaders lack foresight

You must be a sadist? So you have been fasting without food since APC comes onboard!

Because you're Christian? And this one is a supposed VP for Nigeria?

As expected. Yes Daddy!

Won based on ethnicity and religious sentiments. YES DADDY!

mrvitalis:
Dismissing the Catholic bishops’ criticism of Tinubu as “partisan” or “because they have a candidate” is foolish. It ignores a long, consistent record of institutional critique that transcends administrations, parties, and personalities. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has spoken hard truths to power under military rulers, under Goodluck Jonathan’s PDP, under Muhammadu Buhari’s APC, and now under Bola Tinubu. Treating their latest interventions as a sudden partisan plot reveals more about the accuser’s discomfort with accountability than about the bishops’ motives.

A consistent pattern, not selective outrage

The CBCN has never been a cheerleader for any government. Under Jonathan, the bishops publicly blasted massive corruption, rights abuses, and the failure of federal and state leaders to uphold probity in public resources. Under Buhari, their language grew even sharper. They described Nigeria as “killing fields and mass graveyard,” demanded that the president “save Nigeria from avoidable doom or step aside” if he could not secure the country, and rejected propaganda campaigns that painted religious critics as enemies of the state. They warned of poverty, hunger, insecurity, and the erosion of trust—issues that cut across ethnic and regional lines.

That same institutional voice has now raised concerns with Tinubu: a bleeding economy that fails the poor, persistent insecurity, the narrowing of political space, fears of one-party dominance ahead of 2027, and the need for genuinely free and fair elections. Archbishop Matthew Man-Oso Ndagoso and Cardinal John Onaiyekan have been explicit that the bishops acted after broad internal consultation, that they have no ambition to seize anyone’s office, and that they speak as religious leaders duty-bound to address the lived realities of Nigerians—Catholic and non-Catholic alike. Onaiyekan stressed they are not politicians and are not acting for any party.


If the bishops were partisan operators waiting for a preferred candidate, their record would look very different. They would have been silent under one government and vocal under another. Instead, they have criticized successive leaders of different parties when governance failed ordinary people. Consistency of this kind is the opposite of partisanship.


The “they have a candidate” claim collapses under scrutiny
No credible evidence has surfaced that the CBCN is grooming or backing a specific presidential aspirant for 2027. The bishops’ public interventions focus on systemic issues ,electoral integrity, security, poverty, democratic institutions not on endorsing individuals. Cardinal Onaiyekan has stated plainly that the bishops are united on what matters for Nigeria’s survival even while holding diverse personal political feelings. Suggesting they are merely proxies for some hidden candidate requires inventing motives that the bishops themselves reject and that their history does not support.
This accusation is a classic deflection. When institutions or citizens raise uncomfortable facts, the easiest response is to question their purity of intent rather than engage the substance. It is the same tactic used against earlier episcopal statements under previous presidents. The result is always the same: the underlying problem’s insecurity that still claims lives, an economy that leaves millions struggling, and worries about the health of multiparty democracy—remain unaddressed while attention shifts to the messengers.

Why the charge is foolish on its face
First, it treats religious moral critique as illegitimate by definition. Catholic social teaching has long insisted that the Church has a right and duty to speak on matters of justice, the common good, and the protection of human dignity. Nigerian bishops have exercised that duty across decades. Demanding silence only when the criticism lands on the current administration is selective and self-serving.
Second, it assumes that any criticism of the government must be motivated by opposition politics. This is a low view of both the Church and of public discourse. Bishops live among the people they serve. They hear the stories of kidnapping, hunger, unemployment, and fear. When they convey those realities to the president—and when the president disagrees, as Tinubu did on the state of the economy and the claim that the nation is “bleeding”—that is democratic dialogue, not conspiracy. dailypost.ng
Third, the charge is strategically shortsighted. A healthy democracy needs institutions willing to speak uncomfortable truths to every government. If the bishops are dismissed as partisan today, the next administration will face the same dismissal tomorrow. The long-term cost is a public square in which only praise is acceptable and criticism is automatically tainted.
Nigeria’s challenges—security, economic hardship for the poor, and the integrity of future elections—are real. They predate Tinubu and will outlast him if left unaddressed. The Catholic bishops have criticized previous governments for the same categories of failure. Calling their recent engagement partisan or candidate-driven is not analysis; it is an evasion. It is foolish because it substitutes motive-hunting for the harder work of examining whether the concerns themselves have merit. A serious country listens to consistent institutional voices rather than inventing secret agendas to silence them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

And after each of the previous visits,do they (Bishops) went on live TV to debate what they discussed with them?

That's what's meant by "Nigeria Has Happened "to someone! I salute her innovation and enterprise mode!

What should we do with it?

Nigeria happened to your family,yet same Nigeria rescued you! Something is wrong somewhere!

I have never seen any government incorporating and giving the youths opportunity at governance than this Tinubu administration!

And what are they doing rather than lamenting. What's their own contribution to national development?

PlasmaTV:
This obsession about Obi is a pointer to the fact that APC and her minions have nothing reasonable to discuss.

They claim Obi is not a threat, yet, all of their airtime is focused on talking about Obi.

Isn't that preposterously ludicrous?

Are you not obsessed with Tinubu/APC too?

The poster mind is full of mischiefs and just trying to bring up sentiments about ethnicity!

She's following Peter Obi steps,Atiku will never commend Tinubu government!

PlasmaTV:
Unfortunately, Tinubu can't boast of something of this nature. His own is to borrow borrow borrow. Squander squander squander.

Of what was said Tinubu was your problem,please the money saved by the debt cancellation who plundered it again-Jonathan/PDP administration!
Now to the cruz of the message-citizens should less care about who does the job comes from or his religion and more importantly economic reforms always comes with lots of painful sacrifices to made by citizens !

Definitely it's even worst for those politicians pushing Peter Obi narratives of he's not corrupt or a saint!
Only myopic people do that!

When you see stories like this,know it's planted aimed at disparaging Tinubu!

They worried about lots of things including the need to hit it big on a single day!
Indulging in alcoholics and hard substances at the detriment of their health!
Do Not be Anxious of nothing thus sayeth the Lord!

So why is he asked to persuade INEC to conduct good elections?
Had he said , I will instruct INEC- you people will said he's interfering in INEC! No be una!

Not entirely fault of yours but that of evil people demarketing Nigeria home and abroad!

This guy just dey disturb people. You're in a new world!

I support you Mr Obi. Baba will go and rest by 2031 !+•••• then the gbajue master can take over.
Please is it true that All Commissioners that served under Peter Obi as governor are Muslims

Says Who?

Arrays of commendations for PBAT just flowing in left and right,yet some bad belle people just focused on the negative narratives that suits their mischievous schemes!

anonimi:
Can anyone be more flippant than the balablu bulaba master strategist of propaganda lies in Aso Rock?

The one who said Buhari was expired in 2011 but went to Kaduna four years later to beg him out of retirement so he could make Jonathan a one term president, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and security with cheap petrol, cheap dollars, low unemployment, low inflation, high productivity and low debt burden!

Nothing but illusions,wake up o!

Is it not same Atiku that was saying Tinubu interference made her won the NBA election?

They foiled? No the terrorist are playing with the soldiers!
Kudos to our soldiers,God's protection is upon you all!

sweerychick:
oga teacher what he's saying in essence is that terrorist brought them to a place where they'll be picked up by security agents, meaning that either Ransom was paid or a high level negotiation facilitated their release. Which is contrary to what they government told us that they were rescued in a military operation and 3 terrorist were killed including a soldier

Neither was there gun battle in the forest to rescue the abductees going by the account of the army even before the teacher interview.! The army deploy tactical strategies,of course in the course of their rescue its likely some are neutralise (most people-the pessimistic-believes its a Bush thing, with gun.... that's power of intelligence only that it took a long time!

sweerychick:
oga teacher what he's saying in essence is that terrorist brought them to a place where they'll be picked up by security agents, meaning that either Ransom was paid or a high level negotiation facilitated their release. Which is contrary to what they government told us that they were rescued in a military operation and 3 terrorist were killed including a soldier

THIS IS WHAT BAYO ONANUGA SAID ;
Their release was announced in a post on X on Friday by Bayo Onanuga, spokesman for the Presidency.
“Finally, the kidnapped pupils and teachers in Orire, Oyo, have been freed by their abductors,” Onanuga wrote.

He disclosed that eight members of the kidnapping gang were arrested during the rescue operation and are now in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS).

Onanuga said the rescue operation did not involve any exchange or concession to the kidnappers, noting that a notorious gang leader whose release had been demanded by the abductors remains in custody and is being prosecuted for his alleged crimes.

He added that security agencies would provide a full account of the operation soon.

“In the course of the rescue operation, eight of the kidnappers were arrested and are now in DSS custody, while some of them were neutralised.

“There was no quid pro quo in the rescue, as one of the terrorists, a kingpin whose release was demanded by the kidnappers, is being prosecuted for his atrocities. The security agencies will give a full account soon,” he added.

sweerychick:
oga teacher what he's saying in essence is that terrorist brought them to a place where they'll be picked up by security agents, meaning that either Ransom was paid or a high level negotiation facilitated their release. Which is contrary to what they government told us that they were rescued in a military operation and 3 terrorist were killed including a soldier

Please reproduce what the government or military says about their rescue operations?

Fiscus105:
What's is outcome wen they ware hijab?

What's outcome when they litter street and begging, causing discomfort to road users?

A day will come, Muslims will ask you to pray in their mosques by fire by force, just because you want freedom and useless right.

You refer to open spaces,a commercial bus is not an open space. Sharing of tracts is enough inside the bus,train?boat or aircraft!

And this is a teacher? Please,why had the terrorist not released you before now?
For avoidance of doubt let's distinguish between "Rescued and Released"
In this context, the distinction between "rescued" and "released" is significant:

- Rescued implies that the security forces actively intervened to free the students and staff from captivity, suggesting the use of force or tactical operations to bring them to safety.

- Released indicates that the abductors voluntarily set the students and staff free without any outside intervention. This situation would imply that the release occurred without any immediate threat or action from security forces.
So what is he saying-that the security forces where not involved or that no family members of the abductors were arrested in return for their release!
Those arrested were actually privy to the abduction plans and close associate of the terrorist!
He takes for granted the efforts of the security personnel and government!