₦airaland Forum

GloriousGbola:
Why go that far back ?

You should also accept that Nigeria decimated Biafra.
Throw out political correctness and reconciliation and say Victor and vanquished.

Power is power might is right and the losers should take it because they are weaker.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Dem dey always taunt the economy of countries that aligned with China/Russia. They say they're all poor countries, Iran, Venezuela, Vietnam etc. Say all their citizens dey hustle Western visa. Dem forget say na still the West destroy the economy of this countries via economic banditry & piracy. That Abnitio, it wasn't like that before.

The likes of Cuba, North Korea and Iran all refused to become a vassal thus the economic terrorism imposed by the West. Their only sin is that they refused to align with the West. Imagine allowing Washington to impose a foreign constitution on you, tell you how many warship you can operate, put a quota on your active & reserve servicemen. Is that on life wey dem dey live?

US troops are still occupying German & Japanese territory decades after the war ended and peace agreement signed. One on one, Germany can't even go to war against Iran. Iran go roast them.

I support the US to takeover Greenland, Mexico, make Canada the 51st state of the US. Most of them all (EU &European NATO members) supported US when they kidnap Maduro, the illegal military intervention in Iran. Dem go receive instant Karma while also destroying NATO.

Na Canada own I go pity pass because it is too close to home, most of their military equipment were manufactured by Washington. Na to just activate the kill switch option. Their F-35 and the rest won't even take off.

izzou:
Blueraydick

Abeg what does Police Supermemary Unit do?

How is it different from the normal Police Unit?

Because I dey wonder how a Commissioner of Education become ACP

BlueRayDick:
supernumerary Policemen otherwise known as SPY police are just private individuals trained by the supernumerary police unit for specific security roles and protection of high ranking officials and or organizations. Their job is to Complement the services of regular police officers

Their uniform is slightly different from the regular police officers.

It is the supernumerary police unit that trains SPY police and in charge of posting them to ministries, departments,multinationals, banks and other private organizations

BlueRayDick:
supernumerary Policemen otherwise known as SPY police are just private individuals trained by the supernumerary police unit for specific security roles and protection of high ranking officials and or organizations. Their job is to Complement the services of regular police officers

Their uniform is slightly different from the regular police officers.

It is the supernumerary police unit that trains SPY police and in charge of posting them to ministries, departments,multinationals, banks and other private organizations

GloriousGbola:
No no no no

Izzou asked for supermemary police

The meme police

Or maybe he meant to ask for supermammary police. 🤔

izzou:


I no even know wetin I spell sef

Ibime:
Supernumerary simply means "outside the numbers" ie not on duty

For example in a Factory setting, if it takes 10 people to make 1000 products and you had 15 people that day, they will ask why you are not being efficient. If the extra 5 people were not producing output but we're there for Health and Safety training, then those 5 people are Supernumerary - ie your efficiency stats should be normalised for the 5 supernumerary workers that day

Ibime:
Supernumerary simply means "outside the numbers" ie not on duty

For example in a Factory setting, if it takes 10 people to make 1000 products and you had 15 people that day, they will ask why you are not being efficient. If the extra 5 people were not producing output but were there for mandatory Health and Safety training, then those 5 people are Supernumerary - ie your efficiency stats should be normalised to exclude the 5 supernumerary workers that day

izzou:
In January 2024 when I wrote that “Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo will NEVER be able to revolutionise Nigeria’s messily-corrupt passport application system”, some accused me of prophesying doom.

But it is now six months since I paid and applied for the renewal of my international passport. Maybe I will get it tomorrow.

On Thursday July 31, 2025, I paid a sum of N109,700 via the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) payment portal, then proceeded to one of their Lagos offices, to complete further documentation and capture. Meanwhile, the officers first mocked us for kick-starting the registration online.

I couldn’t complete capturing on that day due to a “network problem” that lasted several hours; I was forced to return to their office the following day for that. As I write this, “passport pending production” is the long-running feedback from NIS.

The irony is that Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo continues to be lauded by the unsuspecting public as one of the best — even the best — ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet. It is already almost five months since Tunji-Ojo announced, in the latest of his many mouthwatering passport efficacy promises, that Nigerians would be able to receive their int’l passports one week after application.

My opinion of him remains unchanged; he is simply the typical Nigerian politician who has a mastery of gallery play and public sentiment manipulation via the media for personal branding.

Woe unto you if you rely on media reports to gauge the performance of public officers or, more importantly, the efficiency of public institutions!


Fisayo Soyombo

Sportsweb:
Sorry for bothering you sir

Amoto94:
PRESS RELEASE

CP EDO ORDERS REORGANISATION OF
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The suspect, one Obehi Odine ‘F’, aged 18, was arrested for staging her own kidnapping and demanding a ransom of Ten Million Naira (₦10,000,000). She has confessed to the crime, admitting that the incident was deliberately fabricated to extort money.

In a related operation in Ubiaja, the Command recorded another major operational success as Bush combing strategy yielded success. The Divisional Police Officer, Ubiaja personally led a coordinated bush-combing operation around Akwocha Camp and adjoining forest corridors, in collaboration with the Nigerian Military and the Edo State Security Corps (ESSC). A concealed forest enclave identified by the drone squadron through intelligence generated from air surveillance as a suspected kidnapping and logistics base, was stormed. This resulted in the arrest of eleven (11) male suspects believed to be members of an organized kidnapping syndicate.
Exhibits recovered include twenty-four (24) Dane guns, seventeen (17) cutlasses, three (3) battle axes, gun powder, torchlights, mobile phones, solar panels, assorted charms, one Daylong motorcycle, and the sum of ₦209,700.00 cash, among other exhibits.

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GloriousGbola:
the police attached to VIPs are supernumerary [also called SPY] police - not required for actual police work

izzou:
In January 2024 when I wrote that “Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo will NEVER be able to revolutionise Nigeria’s messily-corrupt passport application system”, some accused me of prophesying doom.

But it is now six months since I paid and applied for the renewal of my international passport. Maybe I will get it tomorrow.

On Thursday July 31, 2025, I paid a sum of N109,700 via the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) payment portal, then proceeded to one of their Lagos offices, to complete further documentation and capture. Meanwhile, the officers first mocked us for kick-starting the registration online.

I couldn’t complete capturing on that day due to a “network problem” that lasted several hours; I was forced to return to their office the following day for that. As I write this, “passport pending production” is the long-running feedback from NIS.

The irony is that Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo continues to be lauded by the unsuspecting public as one of the best — even the best — ministers in Tinubu’s cabinet. It is already almost five months since Tunji-Ojo announced, in the latest of his many mouthwatering passport efficacy promises, that Nigerians would be able to receive their int’l passports one week after application.

My opinion of him remains unchanged; he is simply the typical Nigerian politician who has a mastery of gallery play and public sentiment manipulation via the media for personal branding.

Woe unto you if you rely on media reports to gauge the performance of public officers or, more importantly, the efficiency of public institutions!

Fisayo Soyombo

Amoto94:
For those who didn’t know, BP was the British-Persian company, before it became The British Petroleum Company.

🇮🇷 ⛽ 1908: British discover oil in Iran; create Anglo-Persian Oil Co. (later Anglo-Iranian).

👑 1941: UK & USSR force Reza Shah to abdicate → his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, becomes Shah.

🗳️ 1951: Democratically elected PM Mossadegh nationalizes oil, keeping the money in house and ends British control.

🇬🇧🇺🇸 1953: UK & US stage a coup (Operation Ajax) → Mossadegh overthrown, Shah restored.

💰 1954: Anglo-Iranian becomes BP; Western firms regain access.

Western democracy for you.
Salah al-Iranee

BlueRayDick:
This is not true at all.

The regular policemen, MOPOL and SPU are majorly the ones attached to VIPS.

It's mostly banks, some companies and few private individuals that use SPY police as drivers/orderlies. The real VIPS use regular policemen, that's why u see them lamenting since the order came out.

Ballzproblem2:
They're waiting for Isra el to intervene before they start to shine light on Iran, Isra el dey give them life .

Both haters and supporters.

PDPGuy:
That “network is down” gimmick almost always works because once people would pay any amount, all of a sudden, the network comes alive 🤦🏽‍♂️

Ibime:
The Ministry being discussed had a challenge (speed of passport personalisation) and went about it by focusing on another issue that didn't contribute to the problem for the most part. I did some consulting work on this project and had alternative Swiss partners for the Ministry that would have solved at least part of the problem.

The ministry wanted to start local production of blank passport booklets in Nigeria (which they have now implemented) and which I reported to them is only economical (for the CAPEX spend) with annual production of 20m booklets. Nigeria had annual demand of 2m passports per year as of 2022 so why implement a 20m printing capacity which is wasteful and has poor ROI.

Nigeria was better off purchasing 2-3m blank passports per year at $3-$7 dollars per passport depending on spec rather than a large investment in the printing capability and focus on partnering with a vendor that could ensure no biometric bottlenecks (that could still be IRIS from Malaysia who owned the contract if they fix up, or alternative partners). Also ensuring proper logistics so that booklets get to all the centres and ensuring all centres delivered to KPIs that would reduce the effect of corruption and understaffing on personalisation bottlenecks.

But the focus was on the printing of blank passports in Nigeria though it was not economical and it was not the problem. You can draw your own conclusion as to why large capital investments are preferable than focussing on the Koko of the matter. There are also infinite chopping avenues in recurrent expenditure with local production (supply of paper, ink, generator fuel etc). Well hopefully these other bottlenecks that prevent quick personalisation are fixed, not just making noise that we now print our blank passports locally which was never the main problem. There is a reason most countries print their blank passports with few vendors around the world - because they don't have the demand to justify setting up their own printing.

izzou:
OasisX, how you dey?

Ibime:
The Ministry being discussed had a challenge (speed of passport personalisation) and went about it by focusing on another issue that didn't contribute to the problem for the most part. I did some consulting work on this project and had alternative Swiss partners for the Ministry that would have solved at least part of the problem.

The ministry wanted to start local production of blank passport booklets in Nigeria (which they have now implemented) and which I reported to them is only economical (for the CAPEX spend) with annual production of 20m booklets. Nigeria had annual demand of 2m passports per year as of 2022 so why implement a 20m printing capacity which is wasteful and has poor ROI.

Nigeria was better off purchasing 2-3m blank passports per year at $3-$7 dollars per passport depending on spec rather than a large investment in the printing capability and focus on partnering with a vendor that could ensure no biometric bottlenecks (that could still be IRIS from Malaysia who owned the contract if they fix up, or alternative partners). Also ensuring proper logistics so that booklets get to all the centres and ensuring all centres delivered to KPIs that would reduce the effect of corruption and understaffing on personalisation bottlenecks.

But the focus was on the printing of blank passports in Nigeria though it was not economical and it was not the problem. You can draw your own conclusion as to why large capital investments are preferable than focussing on the Koko of the matter. There are also infinite chopping avenues in recurrent expenditure with local production (supply of paper, ink, generator fuel etc). Well hopefully these other bottlenecks that prevent quick personalisation are fixed, not just making noise that we now print our blank passports locally which was never the main problem. There is a reason most countries print their blank passports with few vendors around the world - because they don't have the demand to justify setting up their own printing.

GloriousGbola:
And Nigeria's paper industry for all intents and purposes has collapsed. You can see it in the persistently rising prices of exercise books and... toilet paper. All packaged Printing paper is imported. So more cost.

Ibime's consulting services for diff govt officials has given him a clear inside track to what is going on. Better leave your c-suite, strap on a machete and enter rivers politics and make some real money.

Network is down is standard for all Nigerian agencies . Website is always broken and you best settle somone with direct access to the the database or you will spend the next 6 months wasting time.

OasisX:


.......I dey fine bro. Na one new project dey drain my time ó jare.

izzou:
Not all. We now have local producers, especially for Tissues.

LordAdam16:
if america would stay disciplined and not attempt to get everyone to bend to their will
i would give about as much sh*t about them as i do about san marino

i don't hate america
but i was born a free man
and an america that seeks to dominate the entire planet with crude methods and without regard for the human cost must get push back

and the best chance of that push back gaining steam and being effective
is when the rest of the world can see america, the real dark america, without tinted glasses

-Lord

GloriousGbola:
yes we have local producers. but the price of tissue has risen astronomically.

tisue i used to buy at n35 for one is now over 300

kitchen towels used to be n600 for imported. that one is now like 6k
the local kitche towel i switched to went from 200 to 250 and is now 1500 to 1800

and this is fking tissue paper which is supposed to be from pulp