₦airaland Forum

naptu2:
Some people also claimed that the barriers were too heavy for the bridge. They made this claim without knowing the weight of the barriers and the load bearing capacity of the bridge.

In actual fact the barriers were placed there to solve that problem.

Quite often vehicles drive against the flow of traffic, thereby blocking vehicles coming in the opposite direction. This causes traffic jams and increases static load on the bridge. All those cars that are stopped in traffic on the bridge are heavier than the barriers that were placed there.

The new system eliminates this problem. The lanes have been properly demarcated, there is space to go past any broken down vehicle and there are junctions so that vehicles can make U-turns and the bridge can be decongested.

However some people are also advocating that large trucks should be banned from the Niger Bridge and made to use the Second Niger Bridge instead.


Speech by the Honourable Minister of Works, Engineer David Umahi, at the reopening of the Niger Bridge after rehabilitation works

The representative of the governor of Delta, my brother Charles who is commissioner of rural roads and public infrastructure and my friend the representative of the governor of Anambra state, the honourable commissioner for works. The leader. . . deputy chief of the 10th Senate, Barrister Onyekachi Nwaebonyi. Your majesty the Asagba of Asaba, your majesty thank you very much. Thank you. Your majesty the Igurube 1. I'm told. . . They have given me your resume and I think that the two of you are so powerful that I want to be a friend to two of you. Thank you very much, your majesty who is in charge of this side of Anambra State. The SSAs to Mr. President South-South, South-East. The director of bridges and design, the content creator that alerted us on the dangers of this bridge. Let me stand on protocol and please, you know, my brothers and sisters for want of time.

My gratitude goes to the president of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

You know when we had issues with the Third Mainland Bridge, we were alerted and we went there and we renovated it. We put solar light, we put asphalt, we put CCTV to oversee what is happening below the bridge and on top of the bridge and the entire Nigerians, especially Lagosians they appreciated Mr. President, they appreciated the minister of works.

When we were alerted on this bridge, we immediately came. This content creator alerted us and we immediately came. We reviewed the bridge. We reviewed the problems of the bridge. People were removing bolts. This bridge is basically built on steel frames and so removing the bolts was very dangerous, you know, the removing of the bolts and cutting the iron, they were dangerous events that would have collapsed the bridge. We also noticed that there was no maintenance since 1966.

That bridge was built and commissioned by the then prime minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency Tafawa Balewa. And so we had to now re-lay the asphalt. Exactly the treatment we gave to the Third Mainland Bridge is the treatment we give to this place.

And we also did a median demarcation because bridges are not built for static loads. And so the engineers, emergency engineers began to talk. Content creators began to talk. And I think there are some people that are very mad. You talk what you do not know. You are not an engineer. Some of you didn't even go to school. You just talk. Even one lady that is an IPOB spokesperson who has turned to become an Obidient spokesperson was even talking, calling me out and talking all kinds of rubbish.

The bridge is standing and for reasons of. . . to instill discipline in the use of this bridge because if you continue to use the bridge, it is designed for 50 years and so if you continue to load this bridge by reason of static loads and indisciplined ways of driving on the bridge then the bridge is going to be endangered and when it's endangered we are all going to suffer it and that's why we put the median.

We also created some turn around, the passages, three of them so that if you have a breakdown then you'll be able to maneuver through the U-turns and that is what we have done.

We put in CCTV here, we've loaded the bridge with solar light and we are building observation center at both ends of the bridge so that the security will stay there and monitor what is happening below and under.

And let me place it on notice to the two directors of Delta and Anambra. The law given by the Federal Government is that there should be no dredging of sand 10 kilometres radius in every of our bridges. But I'm seeing dredging of sand even 20 metres away from these bridges. I am placing it on notice that I will bring disciplinary action against two of you if the dredging fails to stop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Saw_iXlSQ?si=ie25T_ZP9vq4WVKp

The lane demarcation is not needed, however the weight. Do more research.

shuttox:
Nigeria Na cruise
God will bless us

Since the suspects were not named, they are not Igbo people.

This is front page topic.

*Official Plebiscite Request Letter — Velvet Divorce Model*

*YORUBA PARAPO — TRUE MAP APPROVED*
*OFFICE OF THE AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINAIRE*

Date: 12th October 2026
Ref: YP/UN-C24/PLB-2026/001

The Chairman,
United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (C24),
405 East 42nd Street,
New York, NY 10017, USA.

Through: The Secretary-General, United Nations.
Through: Chairperson, African Union Commission.

*RE: REQUEST FOR SUPERVISION OF A PEACEFUL, UN-SUPERVISED PLEBISCITE FOR THE YORUBA PEOPLE (ODUDUWA NATION) — PURSUANT TO RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION WITHOUT BLOODSHED*

Your Excellency,

I have the honour, on behalf of the 60 million indigenous Yoruba people comprising Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara South, Okun and Itsekiri, to submit this request under:

- UN Charter Article 1(2) — Right to Self-Determination
- ICCPR & ICESCR Common Article 1
- African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Article 20
- UNGA Resolution 1514 (XV) and 2625 (XXV)

*THE FACTS:*

1. The 1914 Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria was an administrative act by Britain for 100 years, which expired on 31st December 2014, without plebiscite of the peoples.

2. The Yoruba people are a distinct nation with distinct language, culture, traditional governance (Ooni, Alaafin), economic base (Lekki Port, Ondo Bitumen, Cocoa Belt, Industrial Ogun), and True Map, meeting Montevideo Convention criteria for statehood.

3. Continued federation has led to insecurity, economic marginalization, and constitutional grievances that cannot be resolved within the 1999 Constitution.

*OUR PRAYER — THE VELVET DIVORCE MODEL:*

We do NOT seek war. We seek law. Following the peaceful precedents of Singapore (1965), Czech Republic & Slovakia (1993), we request:

*a)* That the UN C24, AU and ECOWAS supervise a peaceful Plebiscite/Referendum in all Yoruba homelands.

*b)* Simple Question: _“Do you wish the Yoruba people to exercise self-determination and form a sovereign Oduduwa Nation within its True Map, in peaceful negotiated separation from Nigeria?”_

*c)* That upon clear majority, the UN facilitates negotiated separation on asset, debt, citizenship and border basis — without bloodshed.

*COMMITMENT TO PEACE:*

We, Yoruba Parapo, commit to:
- Total non-violence and non-incitement
- One united Yoruba voice via traditional council
- Economic viability dossier already filed (Transport 4-Pillar Blueprint)
- Willingness to dialogue with Federal Republic of Nigeria under AU/UN mediation

Your Excellency, history will record whether Yoruxit was done by gun or by pen. We choose the pen.

Respectfully submitted,

*[SIGNATURE]*
*H.E. Ambassador Olujobi Olushola*
Ambassador Extraordinaire, Yoruba Parapo
True Map Custodian
Cc: ECOWAS Chairman
Cc: AU Peace & Security Council
Cc: British Foreign Office (as former colonial power)

YORUXIT is SELF-DETERMINATION.

Oduduwa a gbe wa!
#copied#double#standard#NdiIgbo#wake#up#from#slumber

Who will vote for Tinubu except his die hard ethnic bigots from Ayejandu's SW region?

Another job for Ribadu. Go to lobby America with millions of Dollars to proclaim there is no Christian genocide in Nigeria.

Celebrityblog:

Woman Destroys Tinubu’s Banner in Cross River State After Getting Angry Upon Seeing His Face. pic.twitter.com/O7zv7dyNQD

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) October 17, 2026

Tinubu will still tell us he must win.
Tinubu's foreign sponsors want a reduction in Africa's population starting from Nigeria. Even as Nigerians are dying in hundreds of thousands a month, due to Tinubu's IMF economic reforms, Tinubu still hopes to return for 2nd term.

G

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How much was paid as Ransom for their release.
Yet we have a so called Governor in that State. & a President who doesn't care about the Insecurity in the Country.

The president, governor and police chief would have resigned in a normal country.
But Nigeria has been made to become a crime scene, a jungle.

JKisOK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJSfCtdxmmk?si=UQS9H6KGckYSyUpO



https://thenewsgiant.com/viral-baby-of-6-months-regains-freedom-from-kidnappers-with-mum-and-dad/

Why were the kidnappers not arrested when police rescued the kidnapped family?

Why are kidnappers never arrested?

Richtaiwo:
Very good one from the Nigerian Police Force.

But my concern now is that it appears the police force is putting the cart before the horse because the horse should pull the cart and not the other way round.

The suspected cultists should first be apprehended and investigated to ascertain the genuineness of their membership of the alleged cultic group. This will now lay a good premise for further investigation and necessary action.

But as it is now, if the suspect are truly cultists as alleged, they will continue to be at large. CSR is a well recognised function of both public and private organisations. It may be formal or non formal or even individuals. But those organisations or individuals must be well recognised by the society.

Lastly, those suspects must certainly be those illiterates who think emotions, thoughts, arbitrariness and rascality is sufficient reason to build online country. The more reason they want to sell a rotten fraud to Nigeria.

You are like asking the Nigeria 🇳🇬 Police to arrest kidnappers for ransome when the police go for rescue of the kidnapped.

Dharmocherish:
https://www.lagoslately.com/rivers-police-remove-dpo-officer-over-suspected-cultists-renovation-of-outpost/

Cultists Renovated a Police Station in Rivers State. pic.twitter.com/KZAJ0jjRTf

— Nigeria Stories (@NigeriaStories) October 15, 2026

Discipline, professionalism - two words no saner person can associate with the Nigeria Police.

Vision101:
Was the gas master plan drawn during Tinubu's regime? Indeed it wasn't during Buhari's. It was during your beloved PDP era. With the avalanche of Igbos in high position then why was Anambra excluded? Your beloved Obi was a prominent member back then. What did he do.

Trust broad minded PBAT. Once it's brought to his attention he will give instruction accordingly.

Your pants on fire. Punocchio did not lie as much as you did.

After proliferation of 20 new federating units (states) and hundreds of local government areas in the old Northern region to funnel oil proceeds to the old Northern region, the irony is that most of the people in the two southern regions do not understand that the southern regions were heavily shortchanged by the north through state creation.

FSBoperator:
All three regional leaders, (Awo, Zik and Ahmadu Bello) wanted to balkanize each others regions.

Yorubas did not oppose Midwestern region unlike how Ibos did everything to block COR region.

A Yoruba man at the regional house in Ibadan was the one who led the motion for a referendum to decide on the creation of Midwestern region.

The majority Yoruba house voted unanimously for such and when the final results were out, another Yoruba man at the Federal Parliament stood up to call upon the federal parliament to ratify the plebiscite.

The entire Midwestern project was conceived by the then Oba of Bini at the regional House of Chiefs from where the issue was quickly passed by a Yoruba dominated house in Ibadan.

The OP is being highly dissenginious in trying to claim Ibos were behind the Midwestern region creation.

Thereafter, the Hausa-Fulani took the rug off the feet of the Yoruba and Igbo and proliferated 20 new states in the old Northern region, but allowed only 17 states in the two southern regions.


It's like one got 20 while 2 got 17.

No country formed by different regions ever used land mass or population figures as criterion to create new federating units like regions, states, local government areas, counties, etc.

Religion founded on sex and woman's body.

GanagiBitrus:
There are communities in Nigeria that also worship Python.
Pythons are non-venomous snakes.

There is a simple thing there: since the natives don't kill or eat the python, the python will not go against the natives.

In the open, you call someone who has not been convicted by a court of law a thief.
Because you believe you are protected by PBAT.

Wike who parades himself as a lawyer is a tout.

Foolish person with his Foolish political propaganda.
Wike an adult with infant brain.

AMINDA:
It's now clear that the press release itself was hurriedly put together because they got the info that fuel price was about to hit 1900 naira. This is why they announced that fuel price will be capped at 1345. But Taiwo Oyedele lied by saying the NNPC will be selling at cost and that only their profit will be foregone. If we are to go by what was said, Nigerians will continue to buy fuel at the fixed price of 1345 long after fuel price reduces in the internationally market until fuel marketers recoup their excess cost, if ever. This opacity opens the door for massive corruption beyond what Nigerians have ever seen. At this point, it would have been better if the government had just continued paying subsidies since corruption was what they gave as a major reason for discontinuing it.

The corruption surrounding fuel subsidy has been the issue all along, not fuel subsidy itself.
Peter Obi was right with saying that he will eliminate the corruption but sustain subsidy.

Fuel price increases indirectly leading to untimely deaths of thousands of Nigerians a day.
As the Naira gains against other foreign currencies, cost of essential items are rising to the roofs.
Tinubu/APC Economic policies are like operating a VODOO ECONOMY.
TINUBU MUST GO.

That was a socalled civil war that was fought by some federal forces as a Jihad.
Mohammed Muritalla the Jihadist of Asaba massacre was elevated by Nigeria as a matyr after the war.

BewareOf419:
Why Mexico 🇲🇽 never accepted this boy?

Because Mexicans know that Reno Omokri called the Tinubu who made him ambassador for Mexico a drug trafficking baron.

Stephen0mozzy:
May God rest their soul, and grant them the peace they couldn't find in being among the living 🙏🏾

Maybe it's me coping, but the West seems to breed a lot of not very strong-willed young people - maybe it's the suffering that hardens us here in Nigeria?

But it takes a lot for three related people to agree on suicide and go through with it... Phew

In bold. My belief also.
It could not have been possible for three human beings to decide at the same time to commit suicide.

DiamondsAreFore:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/08/three-sisters-drowned-sea-brighton-inquest


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxvX2pWowI?si=2tY-qZsojkVT5jal

Incredible story.

How could the three decide on suicide at the same time?
What caused their deaths is yet to unravel. Suspect attacks by unknown forces who pushed the three into the Brighton waters.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op7m0CPvY-Y


- Atiku Abubakar sends a strong message to Tinubu

"Let me address Bola Tinubu. Your Government has made life unbearable and called it reform.

Before any responsible government embarks on any economic reforms, it must first put in place the cushions to offset the backlash of the reforms on the citizens.
An economic reforms that has sent hundreds of thousands of Nigerians to their untimely graves is a most wicked reforms by an irresponsible political leader.

[quote author=benardtotti post=140868299]Demonstrations swept across France and drew students, teachers and parents into the streets, with over 250,000 people marching and hundreds injured since unrest began last month.

Demonstrations swept across France and drew students, teachers and parents into the streets, with over 250,000 people marching and hundreds injured since unrest began last month https://t.co/dJOb2iYAVT pic.twitter.com/Jxadjn74EY

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 7, 2026

like black people here have forgotten that Africa is their home.

To make PBAT remain president of Nigeria after next presidential election, Tinubu's village supporters from his SW region say they will use army and police to kpai any opposition protesters after the presidential election.

Jayhome24:
Which enemy? Is amaechi and obi not enemy of Tinubu already? So what are you talking.

Keep that enemy to yourself we don't care anymore and we will win massively by everything humanly possible under the sun infact if it is to tear Nigeria down we will do it. Gone are our brother Gej era of my ambition do not worth the kpai of anyone Now it worth it and we will do it and nothing go shele.

Person like you is most likely the first victim of your kpai everybody in the opposition plot to make Tinubu remain president.
The police and army are not your brothers. Develop more sense.