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MyExpression:
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You didn't explain how it was uncovered.

Somebody ,who is studying the guys ,reported them.

ALLNIGERIANSMAD:
They're amateur, the coup suppose to be successful, tinubu snatched it right

This is NOT about Tinubu but Nigeria .

Nigeria has gone beyond the era of Military coups.

There are matured and intelligent officers in the Military, who knew the negative implications of coups for a fragile country like Nigeria and reported it.

Tenses:
People think say nah northerners versus tinubu but the koko be say nah southwesterners versus tinubu come 2027.

Which State in the SW do you honestly think this ADC can win?

Pierocash:
and that is why true federalism is the solution like Elrufai suggested. With regional government, you are responsible for your governance, and still have the privilege to access the market

Why must we belong to the same country?

Nigeria should be divided into

Arewa Islamic Republic
MiddleBelt Republic
Oduduwa Republic
Edo Kingdom
Niger-Delta Republic
Biafra

Pierocash:
it becomes lucrative for business.

Why do you think almost every foreign company wants to access the NIGERIA market. Even with the whole corruption, businesses strive better in countries with large population

Countries primarily exist as a safe space for peoples, living within the country, to pursuit their endeavours and reach the highest possible quality of life in that land. It is very difficult to fulfil this primary objective in Nigeria


Why has this not translated to high quality of life for Nigerians?

Companies go to smaller countries than Nigeria e.g Ireland.

plessis:
Did you and your minigod not know of his born to rule syndrome before begging for his help or you found out after your minigod betrayed him?

The future of Nogeria is beyond the chidish talks of mini-gods vs mega-gods like this

Pierocash:
I think i agree with El-Rufai.

Nigeria should be restructured into a Regional Government with power transmitted to regions but still one Nigeria. By so doing, it will be easier to hold the regional government responsible without ethnic colouration. Devolution of power is the best thing to do. But sharia law should first be disbanded.

Nigeria is best divided into smaller manageable countries, where each country can galvanise their people into a nation, focus on developing themselves without unwanted attacks by marauding tribes , permanent cries of victimisation with subtle blackmail, accusations and counter-accusations that bedevilled Nigeria, as currently constituted.

Pierocash:
the population is an advantage

How is population, an achievement?

Pierocash:
I think i agree with El-Rufai.

Nigeria should be restructured into a Regional Government with power transmitted to regions but still one Nigeria. By so doing, it will be easier to hold the regional government responsible without ethnic colouration. Devolution of power is the best thing to do. But sharia law should first be disbanded.

Name one significant achievement of one big Nigeria that would be absent in smaller manageable countries

[quote author=Racoon post=138191650]Femi Otedola never knew he may become this great then. Nice one. [/quote
Hmn..yes, he never knew that he could become one of the few Billionaires in the world, but he comes from a privileged background. His grandfather and father were rich and among the elites of their times.

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anonimi:
Yes they have reduced drastically to what they were in 2023 before Tinubu got his own turn to ruin the country further down than his expired Buhari did.

Do you know if prices of foodstuffs have also reduced drastically to the level of 2015, when Tinubu made Buhari president as APC messiah, thereby ending 16 years of PDP deregulation and privatisation prosperity policies

How old are you, sir? You urgently need to grow up

Things don't return to pre-2023 anywhere in the world,not in the US, Germany, UK, Egypt or Australia.

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Thedon22:
Nigeria is seen as the giant of Africa yet battling with basic infrastructure such as good roads, better healthcare, education, power, etc. Is our population an asset of a liability? In particular, why is provision of electricity a nuclear science for every successive govt? Can Nigerian afford to pay for electricity we consume like other nations? Is our electricity subsidized by the govt? What is your view about this?
Below are 20 countries with the lowest average residential electricity costs (approximate averages in USD per kWh). Rankings are largely driven by heavy government subsidies, domestic energy resources (oil/gas/hydro), and regulated tariffs. Values are rounded and indicative.
Avg. Electricity Cost (USD/kWh)
Rank
Country
1, Libya ~0.007
2. Iran~0.010
3. Kuwait -0.012
4. Qatar ~0.013
5. Iraq ~0.014
6. Saudi Arabia~0.018
7. Oman~0.020
8. Kazakhstan ~0.022
9. Egypt ~0.024
10. Algeria~0.025
11. Uzbekistan~0.027
12. Nigeria~0.035
13. Ethiopia~0.037
14. Azerbaijan~0.040
15. Angola~0.045
16. Venezuela~0.047
17. Pakistan~0.050
18. India~0.055
19. Indonesia~0.060
20. Malaysia~0.065

Food is more important than electricity, why can't food be free in Nigeria?

Svoboda:
Obj obviously remains loyal to the Ironsis. Remember during his tenure as president, he appointed Ironsis son as minister of state defence, and now he's found it worthy to visit Mama Ironsi. Obj may have his character flaws and moral weaknesses, but he isn't in any way parochial or clannish. I won't be surprised to find Obj taking a stroll in my village in Anambra because he seems to be at home in any part of Nigeria. That's why it's a pity if indeed Tinubu is the best the Southwest can offer.

Posts like this reeks of ignorance.

1) Political parties, NOT Geo-political zones contest for Presidential elections. Tinubu won APC primaries in 2022, got the party's tucket to represent it in the 2023 presidential election.

2) Obasanjo and Tinubu had different backgrounds.
Obasanjo joined British Army/Nigerian Army, where people lived in Military Baracks,in relative seclusion from their communities and the Military became their new communities/families. Many soldiers like Obasanjo simply married multiple women or had concubines, from around the towns they served during their Military days except for few reclusive characters like Buhari and those isolated themselves based on religious and cultural reasons e g Sheik (Dr) Capt Ahmad Gumi.

People like Babangida, Danjuma, Murtalar Muhammad etc, who were Northerners were posted to serve in the South and when they reached the time to marry, they simply chose girls ,close to their Military bases in the South.

lilsmart:
Truth be told, Nigeria no go break, I swear.
How e go break? See all di intermarriage wey don happen up and down, na one big family. Your mama from East, your papa from North, your pikin dey marry from West connections don tayad! Na only small group of people dey shout "breakup" for microphone, but inside street, market, and church, millions of us dey mingled and ready for one Nigeria. We don pass through many tins, and togetherness don already.

Russia (Big Russia), Ukraine (Little Russia) and Belarus (White Russia) have common ancestries and speak similar intelligible languages, yet they all separated in 1991 following the dissolution of the USSR.

After 800 years of conquest, domination, forced migration, partial cultural assimilation and eventually,shared ancestries, Ireland separated from Britain in the United Kingdom in 1922.

Apart from religious differences, India and Pakistan shared more in common than most tribes in Nigeria shares with each other.

Somaliland and Somalia speak same language, practice same religion and same cultures,yet separated eventually

Odin13:
Says a desperate Yoruba man.. who cares or seek your opinion.

Atiku has pocketed south south since 99’ and there’s nothing much you can do about that and Obi might soon inherit that.

It will take decades of democracy and trust for south south to align with southwest.. it’s beyond you or your rants ..
Obafemi awolowo did more .. to gain that trust..

In as much as south south has great differences with igbos and even have names for them .. politics is always different.
I’ve seen tinubu and his might in akwaibom .. I’ve seen him tour rivers State in his elements .. and yet had to rig with 100$ to gain a paltry number of votes ..

South south doesn’t begin and end with your tiny tribe in whatever state you’re from

Though we all know say you be Yoruba man.. but based on assumption

Awolowo had significant support in what we now called S/South.

In the Second Republic, Awolowo won in Bendel State (Edo & Delta States) and came second in the old C/River State (now C/River and A/Ibom States).

Many people in the COR Movement in 1958-66, supported Awolowo's party and the UPN narrowly lost the C-River gubernatorial election of 1979 to NPN, due to in-fighting while Ambrose Ali/UPN won Bendel gubernatorial election of 1979

Blitzking:
How come ladies of those days no get ass.dem dey very portable but brainy.

You meaned, they weren't dressed skimply to expose their bums?

ebukal67x:
The probe is a distraction. Farouk should focus on the job.

Farouk is working in tandem with the oil marketers, they don't want any positive changes in the Oil and Gas sector

Nothing spectacular about this.

Before, all serious politicians have real jobs they do outside politics.

Outside politics, Awolowo was practising as a lawyer and after leaving House of Reps in 2011, Dr Wale Okediran returned to his Medical Practice, so also was Late Clement Akpampa (fmr Attorney General during the Military era).

The late Gov Lam Adeshina of Oyo State returned to his book shop business after leaving office in 2003.

Recently, Ex-Gov Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State was appointed a Lecturer at King's College, University of London.

Very detailed weighty allegations

Apart from the criminality, this is grave wickedness.
There are armed robbers in the US too but they don't kill indiscriminately like this, without milk of human kindness.

Why killing this poor fellow?


The palm wine tapper was a poor man , who might have been the only child of a poor old widow. If they had money, they could have raised #5 million to secure his release.

If the Bandits are humane enough, they could have rejected the #10K and instead given the palm wine tapper, #100,000 to re-start his life journey

happney65:
Omo wa ni. Omo wa is in power but state police is a mirage. But when wè tell our people that alaye no send us,he is only concerned and bothered about election una go dey vex

By next year, nothing else can be done again.

State Police. Zero

Resource control. Zero

Restructing. Zero

Things that the so called fake progressives from the SW have been asking for all these while. Them reach govt,they cant do it again but they no send una

So tell me,is he truly a good representative of the SW?

Absolutey NO!

Too much ignorance.

The President can NOT single handedly effect constitutional ammendments, but networking and consensus building like this are necessary.

Restructuring is an ongoing process and right now, States can generate their own electricity, operate their airports and seaports.

The Tax Reform Act and Fiscal Mobilisation and Revenue sharing Formula, deliberately favour States.

What we need next are State Police and then resource Control, which need alot of horse trading to scale through at the constitutional ammendments level.

malali:
Lol..Lagos economic scene belongs to all Nigerians.
Lagosians can do indigeneship and traditional titles all they want

How does this relate to identification of indigenes of Lagos?

The economic scenes in Kano,Borno,Oyo,Rivers, Adamawa or Imo ,also belong to all Nigerians. This is why a man from Nnewi,Anambra State can move to Potiskum to buy 50 cows and transport them to Warri, Delta State and sell them at higher prices. It is also the reason, why Mallam Audu from Funtua, Katsina State can travel to Ifon Orolu, in Osun State without visa, to buy a trailer load of wooden planks ,to be resold at Jamaare, Bauchi State without the need to pay custom duties.

malali:

Lagos economy belongs to all Nigerians.
You can all claim indigeneship....all you want.
The federal assets in Lagos makes it belong to all Nigerians.

Did we put toll gate on third mainland ??
Oil money built 3rd Mainland.

How is this related to digitalisation of identification of indigenes of Lekki, Agege, Muslim, Otto, Badagry, Eko, Igbobo, Egbeda, Mosan, Idimu, Ojoo, Agbangbadi or Oworonshoki?

malali:
Lagos is a federal state. You can do any indigeneship you want.....but don't forget there is no toll gate on Third mainland bridge.

Third mainland was built with oil money from the Oil producing southwest states.

Lets remind does of you trying to claim indigenes now.

All States are 'Federal States' (whatever this mean).

The indigenes of Lagos like all other Nigerians citizens, deserve the protection and support from their State Governments. . .allow indigenes of Lagos drink water and drop cup,

christistruth01:
It was Gov Aregbesola of Osun that is Kogi wiith Ijesha mom

Nooo , Aregbesola's father, Alh Ali Aregbesola was an Ijesha man from a reputable family in Ilesha, who did Oshomalo (itinerant trading) in Ogori-Mangogo ,Kogi State and other towns. He embraced Islam and settled in Ikare-Akoko

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Elusive001:
Does this make someone from Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, Oyo and Ondo indigenes of Lagos State?

Where is this Stated in the digitalisation process?

Kukutente23:
This is false. Yorubaland is patrilineal
No one traces his ancestry through his mother in Yorubaland except maybe an illegitimate child

Stop saying what you don't know.

1) Many Royal families in Yorubaland trace their claims to the throne via maternal link e g Lagos : After the Eletu Kekere died childless, his aunty, Erelu Kuti seized power but was pacified by making her son, Ologunkutere, the new Oba and her second son, as the Onilegbale of Lagos.

2) Oba Adedapo Tejuosho of the ruling Karunwi dynasty of Oke-Ona Egba ,traced their lineage to the throne matrileaneally
3) The Matanmi Royal Family of Oshogbo are descendants of Matanmi, the son of the daughter of Oba Olarooye, the founder of Oshogbo who moved the people from Ipole -Ijesha to the modern site, now called Oshogbo

4) Late Gov Lam Adeshina of Oyo State (1999-2003): The father was from Ebira, Kogi State who came to work in Ibadan farming community but the mother was from a prominent Ibadan family.

malali:
Lagos has the most Federal assets that belong to all Nigerians.
Assets that were paid for with Federal allocation and belong to all Nigerians
The same way Delta has oil wells that belong to all Nigerians
The same way Niger state has hydroelectric power that serves all Nigerians
The same way Kano groundnuts pyramid fed the whole country at some point in the seventies.
All these places contributed money to the development of Lagos.
Did you think 3rd mainland bridge was built with Lagos state funds.

So Lagos discriminating any Hausa or Yoruba citizen is 100% unconstitutional.

How does, Lagos digital identification of her indigenes affect you negatively or relate to all these?


Allow indigenes of Lagos drink water and drop cup, enough of all these wailing over Lagos matters

malali:
Constitutions often contain legacy identity clauses, but weaponizing ancestry to gate access to services, education, or state benefits becomes discriminatory under modern human-rights norms.

Nigeria’s Constitution forbids discrimination based on community, ethnic group, or place of origin. When states operationalize indigeneship in ways that exclude long-term residents, Lagos-born children, or multi-generational families who built the city, they convert an identity definition into a mechanism of inequality.

You are the one reading what is not there.

1) Indiges of Lagos have rights to exist.

2) Lagos ,like all other States have a duty to identify (either digitally or through analogue means), serve and support her Indigenes.

malali:
This is illegal and unconstitutional on a federal level.

The Lagos State Indigeneship Automated Certificate is a sleekly disguised form of digital discrimination.

By institutionalizing “indigene status,” the government effectively divides residents into first-class citizens and others, contradicting the 1999 Constitution’s guarantee of equality and freedom from discrimination (Section 42).

In a cosmopolitan state built by migrants, codifying ancestry into a digital gatekeeper for access to schools, jobs, or benefits is regressive. It risks excluding millions of Lagos-born Nigerians whose families migrated generations ago.

Automation doesn’t sanitize bias, it only makes discrimination more efficient.

The Attorney General of the Federation Lateef Fagbemi should step in and uphold the constitution.

It is NOT illegal, for any State (including Lagos) to identify and make provisions for their indigenes