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Foreign Affairs › Re: June 30: SA Politician's Nigerian Husband Arrested For Harbouring 28 Migrants by peleson1: 9:55pm On Jun 30 |
IronGalaxy: UWas that Nigerian man shot because of xenophobia? Who said anything about killing in the first place? Yes because he opened his shop |
Foreign Affairs › Re: June 30: SA Politician's Nigerian Husband Arrested For Harbouring 28 Migrants by peleson1: 7:31pm On Jun 30 |
IronGalaxy: They will say its "xenophobia" when we complain.. So he should allow his country men to be killed? Are you ok ? After a Nigerian business man was shot dead ? |
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Politics › Re: 2027 Presidency: Ijaw Nation Carries Out Tribal Poll On Who To Vote: See Winner. by peleson1: 12:05pm On Jun 30 |
slivertongue: Please display the sample used Agbado and akra were used Are you now satisfied? |
Sports › Re: Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Thread by peleson1: 11:38am On Jun 30 |
Angelfrost: Nigeria and Senegal are also good, but not yet on Morocco's level.
While Nigeria's attack will bring results, their defense won't hold up against elite teams... Senegal is currently all over the place for some weird reasons.
Morocco, on the other hand, is practically SOLID in almost all departments, especially midfield and defense... They are the only African team that effectively man-mark for over 90 minutes.
They may not have Nigeria's attacking and finishing quality, but they are more balanced, relentless and complete. I await them to have the Nigeria results in football history |
Sports › Re: Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Thread by peleson1: 11:37am On Jun 30 |
DoctorAyukebot: He was talking of male football..Which Nigerian team exactly are you talking about? Morocco has taken years to build a super squad as evident by their performance both at the last AFCON and World cup. They are also well positioned in the FIFA rankings.
You are here ranking the super chickens above Morocco. Chickens who couldn't top their group in qualifiers and even after a second chance couldn't move pass DRC. A child that doesn't go out thinks the mother is the best cook Yet Morocco has no single triumphy . Not even afvon that Nigeria has carried in recent times with late keshi Not even Olympic golf medals in soccer football? Nigeria has more under 17 world cup than any team out there and Morocco can't even stand a chance What are you even bla.bbing about? |
Culture › 1881 Prince Sent To Study In England In Great Britain by peleson1(op): 11:05am On Jun 30*. Modified: 11:40am On Jun 30 |
PRINCE was sent to a royal academy in England for studies . NOTE : AEROPLANES were not in existence. It used to be Sea Voyage and Opobo Port Was the international GateWay in the entire Nigeria . Opobo, the LAND of FIRSTERS . Relics of the RICH and FREE . Rich and Enlightened
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Sports › Re: Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Thread by peleson1: 9:01am On Jun 30 |
SonOfWords: Netherlands being eliminated in the round of 32 and by an African team, is certainly not an outcome any football analyst or pundit would have imagined in this world cup, not even in this decade.
Truly mind-blowing stuff! African Team should eliminate the US team . I want to check something |
Sports › Re: Official FIFA World Cup 2026 Thread by peleson1: 8:58am On Jun 30 |
Angelfrost: Morocco is the most in-form and exceptional African team to grace the world cup since Roger Milla's Cameroonian side.
This world cup has shown that big names mean nothing... It's not enough to have star-studded teams but no real game plan.
Morocco is miles ahead of:
Portugal Netherlands Belgium Germany ...Maybe even England
Only France and Argentina stand above them, and not even by much tbh. I rate Nigeria team above Morocco, I rate Senegal above Morocco Remove mismanagement, corruption and bad psychology from Super Eagles, no team can beat us easily. The best any team should get is a draw |
Sports › Re: World Cup: People Need To Stop Pretending About Lionel Messi – Ronaldo by peleson1: 8:20am On Jun 30 |
dashpressmedia: World Cup: People need to stop pretending about Lionel Messi – Ronaldo - Dash Press Media- What does he mean by that ? |
Celebrities › Re: "I Make $20,000 Every Month From Social Media" — Shank Reveals (video) by peleson1: 10:55am On Jun 29 |
underpinna:
I posted someone's video on FB and got 38k views. Do you know how much i made? How much? Let us know so we can juxtapose |
Celebrities › Re: Photos Of Victor Osimihen And Jeriq by peleson1: 10:49am On Jun 29 |
slipperyanus07: Omo victor dress sense nawa o apart from the brinks on his neck his choice of dressing is zero  He wears such clothes so it will be easier for him to engage any baga in a serious fight like jaguda |
Politics › Re: Igboho To Aregbesola: Tinubu Made You Commissioner, Governor, You Are An Ingrate by peleson1: 10:39am On Jun 29 |
AMINDA: So who made Tinubu? Did he also descend from the sky like a deity? Aregbesola, Fayemi, Osinbajo, Fashola, Ambode, Sanwo-olu, Akeredolu, etc, the list of persons that betrayed Tinubu keeps growing. Seyi Makinde is the latest one on the list. Keep labelling all your promising future leaders as betrayers due to one man's insatiable greed. He governed Lagos over twenty years ago like several others before him but has refused to hands off the state and everyone coming after that must pledge allegiance to him and serve his family in perpetuity and you see nothing wrong with that.
By the way, I thought Igboho is your freedom fighter? Has he fully delved into politics? We all know his new mission is to destabilise Seyi Makinde's government in Oyo for daring to declare a presidential ambition when the "one-that-must-not-be-challenged" is running. Same Tinuibu that his swearing in ceremony in 1999 ,it was his deputy , the woman that gave him a refurbished Peugeot pan that he used to do swearing in ceremony,he couldn't afford a new peugeot or a fleet of convoy that people like orji kalu ,sheriff were donating freely to party leaders and people then |
Politics › Re: Who Took NDC To Court For Deregistration? by peleson1: 10:30am On Jun 29 |
Ezewuzie01: Demented Peter Obi is high on hero beer most of the time, so he couldn't know that the party was in court when he used his own legs to walk into a ditch. He won the last election He won Lagos Won Abuja 😂 😂 |
Politics › Re: It Is My Turn To Govern Imo - Sam Anyanwu by peleson1: 9:00am On Jun 29 |
AMINDA: Obia Akpor Ghengis Khan is out for blood against Uzodinma for daring to interfer in the Fubara matter. Even Nwifuru and Umahi are beginning to "see spirits" in Ebonyi. Tinubu will be willing to overlook as long as all parties pledge support to him. He only cares about his own ambition. Every other party can go at each other's jugular for all he cares. The reject of obio Agbor has no candidate even as three courts already nollified Tony Okocha lead APC that produced his so called confused candidates. |
Politics › Re: Atiku Nearly Picked Okonjo-Iweala As Running Mate Before Settling For Amaechi by peleson1: 7:35pm On Jun 28 |
fergie001: Says who? She is at the WTO today because of politics. No matter how brilliant she is, she can't be DG without the support of her home country. If Buhari said No, she won't be DG of any International Organisation.
Again, Atiku was instrumental in bringing her to Nigeria from the World Bank and then introduced her to OBJ. So, it's listen to them and politely say NO. It is part of the rules that anybody who must contest must get an endorsement from his/her own country If your President or home Govt doesn't endorse, you fail nomination instantly. Yes Her problem was Trump If it were to be Obama as president, she would not needed buhari at all. Trump was opposed to her candidacy so she looked for her Nigerian option and got it . The woman is a solid material, I model my side career after her in a way |
Foreign Affairs › Re: Lebanon Sign An Historic Agreement With Israel To Occupy Southern Lebanon by peleson1: 6:16am On Jun 28 |
AhmedPeacemaker: President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon, a Maronite Christian representing the Eastern Catholic Tradition, made a significant move by signing the agreement with Israel aimed at countering Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militant group that has exerted considerable influence over Lebanon for decades. This bold decision demonstrates a commitment to restoring stability and sovereignty in the country. The new Lebanese president's actions are seen as a crucial step towards liberating Lebanon from the hold of Hezbollah and fostering a more secure and independent future for the nation.
As regional dynamics shift, this agreement could pave the way for improved security cooperation and a stronger stance against extremist groups. This is a very major and important era for the two countries. Iran has been degraded and now the Hezbollah group in Lebanon is decimated . Gaza is ridden off terrorists ,Syria is checkmated . Osama bin ladin foot print is being gradually erased. Africa needs to buckle up and destroy every link with terror groups from the evil sponsors and team up to go hard against every sponsor of terrorism world wide . Nigeria APC government recruitment of boko haram members into Nigeria army and military shows that the government is to be investigated because they have become complacent and accomplice . In Syria ,the US left them because the army was heavily made up of terrorists,they pretended to be fighting against terrorism and were recruited only to now sabotage the process from within and sane thing the APC government is been doing where buhari started recruiting boko haram members into our military. What rational is that? Very unthinkable. How then do we fight and win against people who are now in our military giving out vital informations that is leading to the capture and killing of our generals and top military personnels ?!!! It's bad |
Celebrities › Re: Kanye And Kim’s Daughter North West Storm Paris Fashion Week by peleson1: 9:25pm On Jun 27 |
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Education › Re: Stanford Graduates Walk Out On Google CEO by peleson1: 9:23pm On Jun 27 |
DJperdurabo: N.B: It's a lengthy read but quite informative
Stanford Graduates Walking Out On The Google CEO Wasn’t A Protest. It Was A Paradigm Shift In How A Generation Exercises Power
On June 14, 2026, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, and a Stanford alumnus, returned to his graduate alma mater to deliver the university’s 135th commencement address. He spoke about optimism, passion, and the value of not taking life too seriously. He did not speak about artificial intelligence.
That last choice was deliberate. This graduation season has been marked by a wave of boos and hostile audience reactions at ceremonies across the country wherever tech executives have attempted to frame AI as the engine of graduates' futures. Pichai, it seems, read the room before he entered it.
What he could not outmaneuver was the reason approximately 100 to 200 graduates, out of a class of 6,000, rose from their seats and walked out of Stanford Stadium as he spoke. Their protest was not about AI. It was about something more specific, and more damning: what Google has chosen to do with it.
What the Walkout Was Actually About
The students who left were organized by Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine, No Tech for Apartheid, and Tech for Liberation, all of which are that have been building toward this moment for months. Their target was Project Nimbus, the approximately $1.2 billion joint contract between Google, Amazon, and the Israeli government, signed in 2021, which provides Israeli government agencies — including, critics argue, its military and defense establishment — with cloud computing infrastructure and artificial intelligence capabilities.
Google has publicly maintained that Project Nimbus covers civilian workloads including finance, healthcare, and transportation, and that he is not involved sensitive military operations. However, internal company documents reviewed by The Intercept in 2024 told a different story. According to outlet, before the contract was signed, Google’s own lawyers said that the deal was "not negotiable" on terms favorable to the Israeli government and that Israel’s defense establishment was explicitly included as a covered entity. Moreover, that Google's standard cloud terms of service — which would prohibit uses leading to harm — did not apply to Project Nimbus. The contract reportedly states that there will be "no restrictions" on what the Israeli government may migrate to the service, "including vital systems of high sensitivity level."
Those concerns have found expression inside and outside Google repeatedly. In 2024, following sit-in protests at Google offices in New York and Sunnyvale, the company fired approximately 28 workers who participated in demonstrations against Project Nimbus. The number later grew to roughly 50 total employees. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has accused Google of "choosing to look the other way" on Israel's use of its services. Earlier this year, more than 800 Google employees signed a petition demanding the company disclose and terminate contracts with ICE and CBP, citing what they described as the convergence of the same technology enabling both the Israeli military and U.S. immigration enforcement.
The students who walked out at Stanford’s commencement knew all of this. Their signs read "ICE SPIES WITH GOOGLE AI" and "GENOCIDE RUNS ON GOOGLE." They didn’t shout. They didn't disrupt. They stood up, walked out, and held their own ceremony — a People's Commencement in the Arboretum just outside the stadium, featuring poetry, music, and an address by Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist detained by ICE in 2025 after his protest organizing at Columbia University. It was, notably, the third consecutive year that Stanford graduates had organized a walkout at their own commencement.
The Psychology of Non-Participation
What distinguished the Stanford walkout, and what makes it worth examining beyond the immediate political context, is the method. The students did not attempt to silence Pichai. They did not rush the stage or shout over his remarks. They removed themselves.
This is a form of protest that psychologists and organizational behaviorists have studied as a distinct category: withdrawal of participation as a form of power assertion. Rather than engaging with a system or a speaker in order to contest it, the protesters chose to make legible their refusal to participate at all. The statement being made is not "we disagree with you" but rather "your presence at our ceremony is a condition we do not accept, and we will not legitimize it with our attendance."
This posture has a different psychological signature than conventional protest. It does not seek dialogue. It does not ask for a seat at the table. It declines the table entirely.
For a generation that has grown up acutely aware of how institutions and corporations absorb, rebrand, and ultimately neutralize dissent, the refusal to engage may be a more sophisticated form of resistance than it first appears. You cannot co-opt a walkout. You cannot issue a statement in response to silence.
Research from the CIVICUS Monitor and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace have documented at least 120 significant Gen Z-led protest movements globally over the past two years. From Nepal and Bangladesh, where youth-led demonstrations toppled national governments, to Serbia, where students have sustained organized protest for more than a year. Across these movements, researchers have noted several consistent characteristics: they are largely decentralized and leaderless by design; they rely on social media for coordination; and they are organized around a clear ethical line rather than a traditional political demand.
Political scientist Erica Chenoweth's research on nonviolent resistance has found that when roughly 3.5% of a population sustains participation in a nonviolent campaign, major political change becomes possible. What is notable about the Stanford walkout is not its size — 200 out of 6,000 is a small fraction — but its precision. This was not a spontaneous reaction. It was a preannounced, organized, sustained, and repeated act. The same groups organized walkouts in 2024 and 2025. They will likely do so again.
What This Means for the Institutions Being Walked Out On
For corporations and institutions accustomed to managing dissent through dialogue, listening sessions, and stakeholder engagement processes, the walkout model presents a particular challenge. There is no complaint to address. There is no demand to partially meet in order to defuse momentum. There is no table at which to offer a seat.
Google did not issue a statement responding to the Stanford walkout. It did not need to, in the immediate term. But the pattern of escalating institutional response — from ignoring internal protests, to firing workers who spoke out, to receiving a preannounced walkout by graduates at one of its CEO's most high-profile appearances of the year — suggests that the traditional playbook for managing employee and public dissent may be losing traction with the generation that is entering the workforce.
That generation is also the one that will constitute the professional talent pipeline that companies like Google depend on. When the student activist group’s statement said that graduates "showed they could not be allured anymore with the talk of a dollar or rapidly expanding AI," they were articulating something about the terms of the implicit social contract between corporations and young workers, and what happens when those terms are perceived as broken.
The institutions that would be wise to pay attention are not just the ones whose CEOs walk into hostile commencement halls. They are every organization whose workforce includes people under 30 who have been watching, for years, as their generation is told that change comes through patience and proper channels — and who have drawn their own conclusions about what happens when proper channels are used and nothing changes. The walkout is not a tantrum. It is a theory of change. And it is becoming more legible, more organized, and more globally consistent every year.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maiahoskin/2026/06/26/stanford-graduates-walking-out-on-the-google-ceo-wasnt-a-protest-it-was-a-paradigm-shift-in-how-a-generation-exercises-power/ Very long read but an interesting one. Ivy students with their soft but powerful banter and clear submission |
Politics › Re: Agency Gbajabiamila Claimed Does Not Exist Were Allocated ₦1.3b In 2026 Budget by peleson1: 10:58am On Jun 27 |
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Politics › Re: Dickson Rejects Lokoja Court Order Vacating Party Registration Order As Illegal by peleson1: 10:47am On Jun 27 |
Kelklein: The nonsense happening in the country currently is deeply disturbing..
Looking for every suppressive opportunity to decimate the opposition is absurd.
They have been doing this from day 1 since they came in 2023. First, they ensured no other party won any off-cycle elections across the country.
This, to me is desperation and lack of patriotism at it its peak. You don't treat a country you claim to love this way in a desperate search for power retention. Nobody stays in power forever, so I want those currently in power to take a little pause and think about what life would be like when they are no more. Having subjected State Institutions to so much abuse.
I can't believe one day I would look back and think about what a democratic person Buhari was. That was someone we all thought would be a hardliner but he never imposed his selfish wills on anyone by hook or by crook. Intact of he had done that, the current administration won't be in power.
As you are carried away by the allure of power, always think about what posterity would remember you for. You were doing well until you mentioned buhari |
Romance › Re: How My Date With A 27 Years Old Lady Turned Chaotic. by peleson1: 12:05pm On Jun 26 |
Bittersweetnig: na so everywhere oh, if you try 20, 18 of them na the same, the remaining two will get one weird attitude 😂 😂 😂 😂 Hahahahaha Hahahahaha Omo See wetin APC cause for Nigeria Chei How many wan take dey do naw?!! |
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Sports › Re: Business To Do To Earn N10, 000 And More Daily by peleson1: 8:43am On Jun 24 |
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Business › Re: Elon Musk Loses Record $350bn As Spacex Slumps by peleson1: 9:15pm On Jun 23 |
geoworldedu: May I lose such amount of money in my lifetime. Amen. This prayer is deep oo 😂 Many won't understand |
TV/Movies › Re: Nostalgic Nollywood Moments (Photos) by peleson1: 6:23pm On Jun 23 |
FREEMADNESS: She said a whole lot of tins that I can't even remember but in summary she said go and make money. It was not like I was doing bad then but I guess she prefers older and well established men then. It's ok We don't hear much of her these days and she wouldn't even remember that encounter |
Celebrities › Re: Davido, Cubana ChiefPriest, Osimhen & Victor Boniface Discuss Ronaldo's Wealth by peleson1: 6:22pm On Jun 23 |
Helinuse: Clap for yourself. Die it mehn Stop beefing people bigger than you now because of bigotry |
Politics › Re: Peter Obi Office As Governor...photo by peleson1: 2:39pm On Jun 23 |
franchasng: If you see anybody attacking Peter Obi, six things are common:
1.) He is being paid
2.) He is hustling to be recognized for political appointment
3.) He is trying to make money from social media influence
4.) He wants the evil statusquo of corruption, criminality and unaccountability to remain for a direct benefit or a later gain
5.) He is a tribal bigot attacking Peter Obi because of his tribe; Igbo
6.) Peter Obi didn't give him money or fund his lifestyle or pay him for his watery political support I know you are correct on this |
Celebrities › Re: Davido, Cubana ChiefPriest, Osimhen & Victor Boniface Discuss Ronaldo's Wealth by peleson1: 2:29pm On Jun 23 |
Helinuse: Lolzz
Cubana chief priest must be there to feel among. He has gained his worth . He is very famous and has earned his place . Die it |
Sports › Re: World Cup Fans Label Okoye Sexiest Footballer On The Planet by peleson1: 7:45pm On Jun 22 |
Person wey no go world cup dey trend .
What type of fvckry is that? |