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With the kind of billions this man possesses today, I wonder why he's still so desperate for money.

What a caring wife...

Leemzyy:
Funny how a woman is expected to sacrifice her identity for marriage, but a man is rarely asked to sacrifice his.
Abeg if that's the price, keep your yeye ring, rubbish 😏

Both men and women sacrifice their dreams, ambitions and freedom for marriage. Marriage, by its very nature demands sacrifice, and there is hardly any "responsible" married man who hasn’t had to give up dreams and ambitions for the sake of his marriage and family.

It's genuinely nauseating seeing how women, especially in this social media generation, tend to be fixated only on themselves, themselves, themselves and their own sacrifices, while conveniently ignoring the sacrifices of the men who spend the most of their lives toiling to provide and protect people who may not even regard them when they get old and weak.

Perhaps the greatest irony in all this talk about women being the "sole sacrificers" in marriage is that women are almost always the ones still pushing for marriage in the first place.

I am an engineer, I am an engineer!! But common sense = Zero!

Image123:
Opinions are free, facts remain stubborn. Consistency in good leadership is important and visible in experience. Look around. You give good reasons to vote for the Jagaban and have his masterplan continue in this nation for the next 30 years.

God forbid!

You mean the master plan of mindless state capture, the effective placing of an entire country in one man's pocket, the perpetuation of godfatherism and the glorification of sycophancy?

Using Lagos as an example, it takes a unique form of delusion for anyone to even conceive the idea that one man's capture of the state's entire economic and political apparatus for 27 years is a positive development, let alone attribute any economic progress the state has made to that capture. If anything, Tinubu's stranglehold on Lagos has stifled the state from attaining its full economic potential.

No discerning person can forget how brilliantly Fashola started in his first term, only for the overbearing influence of Tinubu's godfatherism to begin undermining that progress. Despite all his achievements, Fashola was nearly denied a second term simply because he attempted to resist Tinubu's suffocating grip on the state's economic machinery. Ambode wasn't as fortunate.

Consider the Lagos light rail project, given the progress made during Fashola's first term, there was little reason to believe that the Red and Blue Lines could not have been completed under his administration. Yet, under the weight of Tinubu's political interference, a promising infrastructure project dragged on for decades..

As I said earlier, it takes a peculiar form of delusion or Stockholm syndrome to imagine that the mindless capture of a state by a widely controversial figure could ever be a good thing, particularly in the African political environment where institutions are already too weak to resist the excesses of power-drunk individuals.

I never imagined I would live to see the day when political godfatherism, with all its attendant ills, would be celebrated as a virtue rather than condemned for what it is. When one man's grip on power is mistaken for political stability and personal loyalty is elevated above institutional accountability, what is being celebrated is not good governance but the glorification of slavery.

Image123:
Didn't mention otherwise. It takes consistency to build. You either have a good leader for a long time or consistently good leaders following a master plan. Countries better than us have had that history, we've never been that lucky. We've been riddled with topsyturvy policy and political flip flop leadership.

Yeah, but someone had to point out to you that your attempt to downplay APC’s obviously calamitous economic performance by hiding behind the excuse that “we have a large population”, that was a very weak and terribly flawed argument. India has over 7 times Nigeria's population, but they dont have as many poverty stricken people as Nigeria.

Image123:
It's not news na, we have large numbers in everything due to population. Large numbers of Christians, large numbers of muslins, large numbers of births and deaths, young people and old people, large numbers of graduates, professors and of those who speak English.
We have more people that speak English in Nigeria than in UK, Canada and Australia combined.
Let's stop abusing statistics like Obi.

Nigeria doesn't have more people than India or indonesia.

Immatex:
No, you are not necessarily right in your conclusion.

Her baby was not being attacked by the bigger dog, it was the little puppy that came under attack. Her baby was relatively safe inside the pram.

She acted in the best possible way given the circumstance and protecting the little dog was best way to go.

I agree with you. She protected the person that needed protection.

Only a grossly foolish person, or perhaps a stark ignoramus, would have believed that Nigeria, as it currently stands, has the capacity to deliver the coastal road project.

We are talking about a 700km road, potentially with up to 30% of its entire length running through swamps and across rivers. Such a project could easily require over 200-300 bridges, alongside enormous investments in drainage, soil stabilisation and other complex engineering works.

Even if the British colonial masters returned today and took over the administration of Nigeria, I doubt they could pull off such an ambitious project within 20 years, given the country's current institutional and infrastructural realities.

Yet, when sensible people raised legitimate concerns and pointed out that the project was a white elephant misplaced priority, we were insulted, ridiculed and branded all sorts of names, including “enemies of Nigeria”, by political/ethnic sycophants.

BioData45:
Seek medical attention please. Nairaland isn't General hospital

I desperately hate seeing this particular comment. You might think it comes from a good place, but the logic behind it is terribly flawed.

Those doctors in the general hospitals you keep referring to, some of them are right here on Nairaland. Does their professional expertise suddenly become invalid simply because they are contributing to a discussion on a public forum?

More importantly, even doctors in established hospitals can sometimes run out of diagnostic ideas; infact this happens very often particularly when dealing with rare conditions they have never encountered in their careers. In such situations, the firsthand experience of a random Nairaland user who has dealt with the same condition could prove far more insightful than the opinion of a certified doctor encountering it for the first time. Even doctors consult one another, exchange ideas and learn from other people's experiences. Some of them come to forums like this for precisely that reason.

A public forum may not be a hospital, but that doesn't mean it cannot be a valuable source of information, perspective or even a breakthrough that helps someone find the right medical care.

So please, stop trying to ridicule the value of collective public experience and opinion simply because it comes from an online forum.

Sometimes I wonder why all state governors arent doing things like this.

helinues:
I still can't comprehend how development news like this can make some people to be sad

So Nigeria’s revenue has increased by a factor of three, yet poverty among ordinary Nigerians has multiplied by a factor of five, and you celebrate this mess as an achievement?

What makes the situation even more troubling is that despite the substantial increase in government revenue, this administration has continued to borrow, and has massively outborrowed all the previous administrations.

So where exactly is the additional revenue going to? The obvious conclusion is that the additional revenue and additional borrowing is being stolen and personalised by the devils in power.

When scrutinised on where the money is really going to, the only response is usually "coastal road", a 700km road in which only 30km has been completed after 3.5 years and trillions spent.

What kind of filthy conscience do some of you even have?

naptu2:
I WILL NOT "DEFINE" IT! YOU CAN KEEP WAITING TILL ETERNITY FOR ME TO DEFINE OR EVEN EXPAND IT, IT WON'T HAPPEN

If you don't know how to use the internet access that you have, then that's your problem.

There are 2 articles on this thread about the game and none of the journalists expanded the initials. But you can keep waiting for me.

Keep waiting, you hear!

Modified.

WHY DID SO MANY JOURNALISTS WRITE THE NAME MFM?

This post is for those that genuinely do not know. It is not for the trolls.

In the 1970s and 1980s there was a popular electronics company called Goldstar. It made television sets, radios, VCRs, etc.

Goldstar merged with Lucky Chemicals in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the name became Lucky Goldstar.

The name was changed to LG in 1995.

Now let me ask you, when last did you see anybody refer to LG as Lucky Goldstar?

There are many similar words and I have used quite a few in this post (I didn't expand etc).

The reason why you see so many journalist refer to that club in that way is simply because the name of the club is MFM Queens Basketball Club. It isn't any other name.

It is owned by another organisation with a longer name but the name of the basketball club is MFM Queens.

Anybody that is looking for a longer name should keep searching.

My dear comrade, no one is trying to trigger you, argue with you, or pick a fight with you. I only tried to offer a bit of advice.

The MFM that I know of is a church. So when reading an article about a basketball tournament involving banks (Zenith, First Bank etc), my first instinct certainly wasn't to assume that the "MFM" mentioned in the article was the MFM church. If the article had said "MFM Church", I and several other readers probably wouldnt have been confused in the first place.

Regarding your LG example, if an article is discussing electronics and mentions "LG", there's hardly any ambiguity about what it means because the context makes it obvious. But if an article about agriculture suddenly mentions "LG", there is room for the reader to wonder what exactly is being referred to, and that's really all we were saying.

It is basic writing etiquette to spell out or define an abbreviation at first use, particularly where the abbreviation could REASONABLY have more than one meaning. It helps the reader follow the article without having to stop and open external links or Google things.

But then again, its a free world and etiquette isn't a mandatory rule. You're perfectly free to write however you wish, and nobody is going to beat you for choosing otherwise. Thank you!

Shedrack777:
You're just busy typing MFM, without writing it's full meaning. What does MFM stand for?

Haha... I actually kept reading and reading through the full report to confirm what the "MFM" meant. But there was not a single explanation anywhere. Not until I saw the symbol in the image.

I think the OP can do better.

naptu2:
Somebody has a smart phone with internet access and he is complaining that others did not type out MFM in full.

C'mon man! It’s basic writing etiquette to define abbreviations at first use. I know there's a church called MFM but seeing that it was a basketball league, I kept reading through the report unsure if it was the same MFM I knew or if it meant something else. At least 8 out of 10 readers of this report would similarly be confused.

Damnnnn.... Nigerian yahoo boys are real learners.

goslowgoslow:
Look at all these shameless people! Northerners don't even recognize the man called Obi. How will a party leader not be on a poster? Una nor dey shame?

We gracefully accept your mockery with joy. Anything to steer Nigeria away from the hands of the wolves and hyenas who have no other destiny than to destroy our collective future, is a welcome development.

AMINDA:
Well, from a strategic point of view, it makes sense to tell the rural supporters that it is Kwankwaso who is on the ballot. Heads or tail, Obi benefits.

The comments I've read on this thread are actually laughable. If removing Obi's face from all posters in the north is what will make NDC receive more votes in the north, then it's certainly a very welcome development for NDC.

This is actually a very good development. If removing Obi's face from the posters will make some northerners vote for NDC, then its a very welcome development.

Lifestone:
What exactly is your point?
He shouldn't seek for the best healthcare anywhere he could get it from?
By the way, that's a private hospital not government. We do not know what kind of treatment he went there for and if such is available in Nigeria or not.

I just believe you guys enjoy talking bad about your country, Nigeria.
That's very bad.

What the hell are you defending?

It’s this sort of your mentality that produces the kind of useless leadership we have in Africa.

Africa is virtually the only continent where our leaders routinely travel abroad for even minor healthcare. With all the money Nigeria has, isn’t it a shame that none of our leaders, past or present, has thought it wise to build a genuinely world-class hospital here?

The hospital doesn’t even have to be accessible to the general public; just build a damn elite hospital, equip it to the highest international standards, invite foreign expert staff if you like and make it as expensive as the ones they visit abroad. With this, we would not only be saving ourselves from serious capital flight, we would also retain expertise and jobs here, and most especially, we would save ourselves the shame of watching our leaders and elites fly abroad at the slightest headache. Aren't you genuinely ashamed of this nonsense?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

I desperately hate online trolls, especially the ones who are diabolical or senseless enough to present their trolling as factual stories rather than mere jokes.

As much as I hate the idea of the rich using the police to oppress the poor, I strongly approve of whatever oppression is being meted out to this lad.

Very barbaric and clueless mentality from the people leading us.

Of course there's nothing about Tinubu that can be verified. Not his name, not his educational history, not his ancestry, not his businesses, not his political antecedents.

So it's very understandable that a top Tinubu lieutenant would be agitated by the phrase, "go and verify"

duro4chang:
Did he owe workers or not? Didn't he say he didn't owe anyone. Obi is a pathological liar. No reasonable person will trust him except headless mob

Sometimes one wonders whether some of you who write thesr comments are nursery school toddlers.

Obi said when he left office he wasnt owing any salaries. Soludo wanted to prove him wrong by publishing a report saying 42-month salaries were owed in 2006, just few weeks after Obi got into office.

How exactly can any sane adult not comprehend the meaning of "when I left office"?

Or could it truly be that when people start supporting APC, they just throw their brains away? Cant you guys think of anything more sensible to campaign or criticise Obi with?

Kushites:
YOU IN THE EAST SHOULD BE SCARED TOO BECAUSE YOU ALSO DEPEND ON THAT SAME OIL WEALTH TO SURVIVE.

Your states receives federal allocation to survive JUST like every other part of Nigeria.

Your SOUTH EAST elite feeds fat on that oil money too, just like the northern elite and south west elite!!!

Yes the SOUTH EAST also depends on same oil money but the same SOUTH EAST have never for one day, not in the past 60+ years, told you or anyone that they're worried about self rule or the implementation of full resource control.

Yes a military leader of south eastern extraction may have unilaterally instituted our current unitary system of government in early 1966, but it was also the SOUTH EAST that first opposed the idea and has vehemently pushed against this unitary system from Aburi in the same 1966, to date.

So if the SOUTH EAST isn't worried about a decentralised Nigeria where every region enjoys full resource control, why are you trying to be afraid on behalf of the people of the SOUTH EAST? Is that how benevolent you are?

truthera:
I came across this featured thread "UK Leaders Sign Agreement To Break The United Kingdom (Video)" in which Scotish leaders came together to declare the intention of their people to break up the United Kingdom, below is an excerpt of the post below...




I am forced to ask why can't Nigerians see the root of their problem and do something about it? I've made the argument consistently on several platforms including here on Nairaland that Nigeria in it's current form is a hopeless cause that should be dissolved or decentralized, that Nigerians will be wasting their time and future engaging in another unprogressive electoral process of installing another "One Nigeria" political pretender like Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu or Peter Obi as president when they should be pushing for a national referendum on the country's unity that will lead to a sovereign national conference to reset or dissolve Nigeria.

Everyone knows that there is no genuine unity in Nigeria, as a result of this a section of the country remains perpetually marginalized and denied their right to self-determination, everyone knows that Nigeria runs on a military constitution that have been in existence since 1999, a constitution that should've been dissolved if truly Nigeria was a real democratic country. Everyone knows that the indigenous people within Nigeria did not create Nigeria as it is nothing but a symbol of British colonial conquest and subjugation that shouldn't have ended in 1960 if those that negotiated it's independence had the genuine interest of their people at heart.... As long as Nigeria exists, the masses will continue to suffer as a direct consequence of it's systemic injustice and retrogressiveness. If the Scotish people that enjoy a better country can exercise their right to self-determination by demanding for independence, I see no reason why Nigerians suffering and are worse off under a hopeless British colonial experiment cannot demand for their freedom.....

In conclusion, I will once again reiterate, no matter who wins the 2027 presidential election, no sustainable national progress can be achieved unless a national referendum is done that will lead to a total dissolution or decentralization of Nigeria.....

The northern elite is afraid that the free flow of stupendous oil wealth they've enjoyed for over 60 years would be cut off if Nigeria is decentralised. This is the primary reason Nigeria still remains one-country to date. If the oil in the Niger Delta dries up today, give it 3 years and Nigeria will be no more.

Second reason Nigeria still remains is that the south west is scared of offending the north. If the northern elite decide today that it's time to divide Nigeria, the south west would agree to it before the morning.

seunmsg:
No single exposed, educated and intelligent person will vote for Peter Obi ahead of Tinubu except those driven by religion and ethnicity.

This is actual raw nonsense!

The fact that in 2023, Obi won by a landslide in many of the most prominent urban centres, including affluent areas in the southwest, already tells any discerning person what they need to know.

The fact that Obi also consistently dominated online polls tells a similar story, particularly when you consider the educational and socioeconomic profile of Nigerians who are most likely to be active online.

Without mincing words, educated, enlightened and relatively comfortable Nigerians overwhelmingly gravitated towards Obi in 2023, while the APC’s strongest support came from the mass of less-educated Nigerians, particularly across predominantly rural communities.

Lagos and Abuja are perhaps the clearest case studies. These are two of the places with the highest concentrations of educated, enlightened and economically comfortable Nigerians. Obi won overwhelmingly across many of these constituencies, from Victoria Island to Ikoyi, Lekki and Ikeja. He even won in Tinubu’s own street, while Tinubu’s strongest Lagos support came from areas like Ikorodu and Badagry.

And then, just two weeks after the presidential election, APC resorted to unleashing thugs to bar voters who looked “well-fed” or educated, apparently out of fear that they were “anti-APC.” That act alone speaks volumes, even to the deaf and blind - APC is relying 100% on the uneducated and economically deprived populace.

The voting pattern in 2023 showed a striking correlation between education, urbanisation and support for Obi. You don't have to like Obi to acknowledge the clear message the 2023 voting data was sending. The data was there. The pattern was obvious. Pretending otherwise doesn't make it disappear.

To me, the most disturbing thing isn’t even the high price of petrol. Rather it’s the realisation of just how powerful our tribal and political allegiances can be, to the point where the brains of a huge portion of the suffering population can actually be conditioned to accept that it’s okay to buy petrol for N1400 a litre, while those in government continue to peacefully live richly in obscene opulence.

If someone had told me that petrol prices could rise above N1000 in Nigeria and the country wouldn’t erupt in a revolutionary protest of all protests, I would never have believed them. The very same people who would have gleefully slit Jonathan's throat for N142, are today the same people convincing fellow suffering Nigerians that it's okay to pay N1400? What changed?

Apparently, Nigerians can endure almost anything, as long as the person inflicting the pain belongs to the “right” tribe, party or political camp. That, to me, is far more frightening than the price of petrol itself.

In 2023, Obi was literally unknown in most parts of Nigeria outside the SE. But in the last 3.5 years, a lot of that has changed. In addition, the Kwankwaso factor would definitely be adding some numbers to Obi's performance, especially in the north.

In summary, the coupled with Tinubu's performance so far, Obi would definitely do better than in 2023, but only on the condition that the APC wouldnt unleash hell in the form of rigging and violence.

From the comments on this thread so far, its just clear that every single APC supporter is just hoping on more advanced rigging and violence than what was done in 2023 to stop Obi.

Oh wow! I didnt even know there was a active BBN show currently.

After claiming that Obi has poor oratory skills, when asked by the interviewers if Tinubu has great oratory skills, his response was "it doesnt matter!"

PDP has a presidential candidate?

ginggerxy:
But you see nothing wrong in people always trying to bully him because his father has money is the reason he is successful as a musician? Try to balance this thing first before you blame him why are they always trying to play down the effort he has put into his career?

Erigga didn't try to bully him at all, Davido got it all wrong and launched a needless and pointless attack on Erigga. There’s a reason literally everyone on social media is against Davido on this one. His attack on Erigga was totally uncalled for.