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TV/MoviesRe: Meet Mide, Bbnaija Season 10 Housemate by potent5(m): 9:15pm On Jul 26, 2025
I don't want to meet her. Or is it by force?

You people have started with your distractions again. grin
PoliticsRe: I Will Come To Edo Again – Peter Obi Dismisses Okpebholo’s Threat by potent5(m): 8:35pm On Jul 24, 2025
That's more like it! Don't give in to agbero threats. Agberos are cowards. Nigeria is for everybody.
PoliticsRe: 2027: PDP Finally Zones Presidential Ticket To South. by potent5(m): 2:33am On Jul 24, 2025
Shameless people. Who are they trying to deceive? Just because Atiku left the party, suddenly they are zoning presidential ticket to the south. They should zone it the southwest. Obi is not a vulture.
PoliticsRe: Falana Issues Legal Ultimatum To Edo Governor Over Threats Against Peter Obi by potent5(m): 9:23am On Jul 21, 2025
You have divorced yourself of your brain but, you don't have anybody to tell you.
OkayDaddy:
Why has the little girl called Peter Obi not said anything about this. He knows it's a boomerang of what he did as Anambra Governor.

Maybe Falana was in coma when Obi restricted Elrufai from coming to Anambra state.

The thing with karma is that it always goes round, one way or the other.
PoliticsRe: It’s Too Late: You Cannot Buy The North With Token Appointments - ADC by potent5(m): 8:04pm On Jul 19, 2025
Tell him.
But he will not hear.

17 more characters needed
PoliticsRe: VIDEO: Reactions Trail Moment Obi Was Struggling To Leave The Midst Of Dentistry by potent5(m): 9:48am On Jul 19, 2025
This kind of painment is the reason we have strong painkillers. Learn to take things easy. This life is too short to be... grin
CoronaVirusPro:
No wonder the school is churning out incompetent and outdated dentists. This a call of the department to be scrapped and all already issued certificate voided.

Quality time they could have invested into studying and getting abreast with latest industry standards and techs, being spent on selfie.
PoliticsRe: Gov Okpebholo To Obi: Your Security Won't Be Guaranteed, I Am The New Sheriff by potent5(m): 8:01pm On Jul 18, 2025
As if he has guaranteed the security of anyone in Edo state.
You people are funny.
CoronaVirusPro:
A good one coming from Edo state governor.

It’s just for the record as he has clearly stated that, he cannot guarantee his security.

Same applies to other 22 states who have maintained same stance.
CelebritiesRe: IVD Takes Fiancee, Blessing CEO To Meet His Godfather, MC Oluomo In Abuja by potent5(m): 10:33pm On Jul 16, 2025
This life no balance. Just imagine! Blessing CEO. haba. This life really no balance.
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Donates N90m, 2 Innoson Vehicles To His Community by potent5(m): 2:43pm On Jul 16, 2025
He is busy claiming Lagos as his state of origin. Claiming another man's land as yours is what again? Land grabbing?
Penguin2:
Meanwhile, Tinubu has done nothing for Iragbiji.

Not even toilet latrine😏
PoliticsRe: Obi Should Just Forget About The ADC Ticket With What I Saw Yesterday At Kastina by potent5(m): 2:08pm On Jul 16, 2025
We know what you are trying to do. grin

Try harder next time.
Freshtruth:
With what I saw yesterday in kastina when Atiku attended buhari burial that man does not look like who we step down for obi Omo as I see crowd chanting sai atiku in the company of el rufai and tambuwal and ADC chieftains walking. Along side atiku how Obi wan take get that ADC ticket he wan vanish am?

Omo Obi 2027 bid is almost gone my humble conclusion is for obi to lobby for the ADC vice presidential ticket and run with atiku as simple as ABC. Make he no listen to any motivational speaker. To be number 2 man for Nigeria no be teeth. Even goodluck step down from his role as Governor as bayelsa to accept vp ticket so obi half bread is better than non.

My humble and sincere Advise sir
EducationRe: Three Generations In Wigs: Lady Become Lawyer Like Mum & Grandmum by potent5(m): 3:07pm On Jul 11, 2025
grin
If your problem is that lawyers lie, you think doctors don't? cheesy
The kind of lies told by doctors is the ones that can kpai millions all over the world immediately without an opportunity to appeal. grin.
You have forgotten covid already.
Kingpele:
Congratulations dear, na before I dey think say lawyers and doctors are on the same level but not anymore ...now my lawyer just dey lie to me up and down...now am seeing lawyers as liars
PoliticsRe: 2027: ADC Is Home For Obidients – Saliu Lukman by potent5(m): 10:12am On Jul 10, 2025
Really? It is too early to determine that.

Anything can happen at any time in love, politics and war.
PoliticsRe: No Amount Of Insults Will Provoke Me – Adeboye by potent5(m): 7:46am On Jul 06, 2025
There are just a handful of things money cannot do. It can even make u immune to anger. Especially offering and tithe from poor people.
PoliticsRe: ADC: Tinubu Expresses Willingness To Negotiate Nnamdi Kanu's Release by potent5(m): 9:04pm On Jul 05, 2025
Umahi should continue to deceive himself. We know he is talking nonsense which Tinubu did not ask him to say.

That was how Benjamin Kalu talked r*bish, but now that Tinubu has not said anything about it, he has shut his big mouth. Very soon, Umahi will shut his big mouth.
PoliticsRe: Obi’s One-term Presidency Not Sellable In North – Ex- IPAC Chairman by potent5(m): 9:00pm On Jul 05, 2025
Who be this? Wetin him de talk? If you no buy, other people in the north will buy. Comot for road.
PoliticsRe: Wike And G5 Thinking Of Decamping To ADC ? by potent5(m): 1:36pm On Jul 04, 2025
Are you sure he is not working for him already, and collecting peanuts stipends? Hunger dey. grin
ADCagent:
Will you like to work for Wike? Heard he is employing people.
PoliticsRe: Photos Of Policemen Killed By Suspected Herdsmen In Benue State by potent5(m): 12:30pm On Jun 30, 2025
Imagine. A well trained officer fully armed, was taken out so easily. Was he waiting for an order to return fire for fire or what exactly.
PoliticsRe: 2027: Peter Obi Is The Single Biggest Roadblock 2 Challenging Tinubu - Hundeyin by potent5(m): 8:04pm On Jun 28, 2025
I have no choice but to agree with Hundeyin on this. Peter Obi's ego is the only thing standing between the opposition and Asorock.
Christianity EtcRe: Adeboye Plans Prayer For Economic Restoration by potent5(m): 11:43am On Jun 28, 2025
See them. Magicians
Una de try o. A PhD certificate holder wants to pray for economic restriction. A mathematician for that matter. People are wicked in this country.
PoliticsRe: Influencer ‘Ijele Speaks’ Finally Released From Ikoyi Prison by potent5(m): 6:45pm On Jun 27, 2025
At least, he has learned his lesson.
Hopefully, he will amend his ways.
Maxymilliano:
Be careful what you wish for others, 'cause it might turn around on you
PoliticsRe: Peter Obi Laments Demolition Of Brother's Business Property In Lagos (Photos) by potent5(m): 4:01am On Jun 25, 2025
Desperate urban bandits are on overdrive to peddle falsehood. Just imagine the childlike photoshop. grin
PoliticsRe: Owo Church Attack: Ondo Govt Demolishes Victims’ Memorial Park by potent5(m): 7:17am On Jun 24, 2025
Good riddance. After playing politics with the lives of innocent people, they now built a memorial park. To what use is a memorial park without any efforts to make sure the perpetrators of such a crime were brought to justice? What use? Good riddance jorr.
Christianity EtcRe: How Deeper Life Tried To Stop This Beautiful Marriage? See Fine Family! by potent5(m): 8:07pm On Jun 21, 2025
Freedom from slavery is a beautiful thing. Just look at the beautiful family there. grin
Foreign AffairsRe: World Order: Iran Has Rewritten The World Power by potent5(m): 4:37pm On Jun 19, 2025
You don finish? Abi you still have more to say.

mrkia:
*Echoes From Isfahan* -

_They say history is written by the victors. Not always. Every now and then, history chooses to write itself through fire and silence through a single act that reorders the narratives of entire generations._

When Iran launched a ballistic missile from Isfahan toward Tel Aviv, it wasn’t merely asserting retaliation, it was delivering a thesis, wrapped in speed and steel, aimed not just at a location but at a worldview. That missile, born in the sanctions-strangled laboratories of a defiant nation, did not just pierce the sky. It shattered a myth and delusion. It unveiled the limits of military mythology, the hollowness of Western hegemony, and the futility of empire in the face of resilience.

To grasp the full weight of what occurred, one must trace the missile’s impossible calculus of geometry. From the Iranian plateau, it rose toward the heavens with a trajectory that mocked the very idea of deterrence. In its path stood an alliance of the world's most powerful militaries; the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, and their regional hunting dogs. All armed to the teeth. All on high alert. All focused on stopping this single projectile. It first encountered the Americans in Iraq, whose Patriot systems scanned the skies with encrypted algorithms forged in billion-dollar labs. Then, it passed the French Rafales in the UAE, cutting across Saudi-America's controlled airspace that had been quietly opened for the exercise of European power. Down in the Gulf, the USS Carl Vinson steamed with menace, flanked by missile destroyers whose Aegis systems were meant to guarantee supremacy over any regional challenge.
And yet the missile flew on.

Jordanian skies offered no respite, as American and British air forces scrambled from their desert airbases. In the Mediterranean, British typhoons and American F-35s took to the air from Cyprus, joined by the orbiting eyes and silent algorithms of satellite networks. At this point, most missiles, any missile, should have been incinerated. But this one was literally a cat with infinite lives.

Now within range of Israel itself, the fabled Arrow-3 system locked on, reaching beyond the atmosphere to intercept in space. When that failed, Arrow-2 took over, chasing the reentry. Then came David’s Sling, sweeping the mid-altitudes. Finally, the Iron Dome, Israel’s last shield, scanned for impact. Each layer represented billions of dollars, decades of R & D, and the collective effort of Western militaries determined to create a bubble of invincibility. Yet at least one missile survived all of this. It landed. It struck. It succeeded.

What does this tell us? That something fundamental has shifted in the global balance of power. For years, analysts dismissed Iran’s capabilities as primitive, its weapons as theatrical, its claims as bluster. And yet here we are, in a world where a so-called pariah state has built missiles that not only challenge but defeat the most advanced defence architecture the world has ever seen. And they built them at home. With no imports. With no contracts signed at air shows. With no lavish defence expos or glittering promotional reels. Iran’s weapons were born in pressure, forged in isolation, and tested in the real-world arena where delivery makes the difference between diginity and humiliation.

This achievement didn’t happen overnight. It happened in underground labs during the Iran-Iraq war. It happened after the downing of passenger aircraft. It happened after nuclear scientists were assassinated in broad daylight and when sanctions were imposed that were meant to starve ambition. But instead of surrendering, Iran adapted. It localized its production, diversified its methods, and layered its defence and offence in a manner few countries could replicate, let alone withstand. What was dismissed as backwards is now defining the future of deterrence.

And yet, the response from Western capitals is all too familiar: denial. Iran is painted as irrational and as a threat to stability. But what if the truth is harder to admit? What if Iran is not reckless but effective? Not chaotic, but calculated? What if Iran, in exercising restraint even while under attack, is revealing itself to be more responsible, more strategic, and more sovereign than many of those gangstersinfancysuits? In this context, the missile strike was not a reckless act of vengeance. It was an intentional, bounded, and publicly announced demonstration of capability. It deliberately targeted military infrastructure. It gave advance warning. It minimized casualties. This was not revenge. It was a message: we can hit you, and we choose to. This time.

This precision, this composure, this ability to control escalation even when provoked, makes the event more significant. For decades, the West has relied not only on weaponry but on the assumption that its enemies would eventually falter, would act irrationally, and would miscalculate. Iran refused to play that role. Instead, it studied, waited, and when the moment came, acted with clarity. And that, above all, terrifies the architects of empire. For those paying attention, the implications are clear. If Iran can achieve this under sanctions, what might it achieve in their absence? If it can produce this calibre of missile under pressure, what might it accomplish when freed? More critically, what precedent does this set for other nations under siege, under threat, under the illusion that the West alone possesses the key to modern military excellence?

We are at the precipice of a new military reality, and many in the West are still looking in the wrong direction. They believe domination is sustainable, that superiority is permanent, and that military architecture can replace diplomacy. They are mistaken. What Iran’s missile did was not just expose a technical vulnerability. It exposed a philosophical one. The belief that security comes from dominance is obsolete. True security now lies in balance, in restraint, in mutual respect, and in the understanding that every state, no matter how demonized, has the capacity to resist, adapt, and prevail.

This is not to suggest that Iran seeks war. Quite the opposite. Iran’s actions show it seeks dignity. Recognition. The right to live without being perpetually cornered, sanctioned, or threatened with annihilation. It is not Iran that invaded country after country under the guise of preemption. It is not Iran that built hundreds of military bases around the world. It is not Iran that arms apartheid regimes or vetoes every call for international justice. And yet it is Iran that is framed as the aggressor. The missile launched from Isfahan did more than fly. It spoke eloquently. It said: we are not what you say we are. We are capable. We are sovereign. We are here knocking on your miserable gates and doors.

Those in Washington, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv who still dream of regime change and permanent superiority must now confront a different truth. The age of unilateral military dominance is closing. The myths are unravelling. The world no longer bends to the will of a single power or alliance. Nations have alternatives. They have capabilities. And most dangerously, for the old order, they have confidence.

The West can choose to ignore this shift. It can double down on its delusions, increasing sanctions, flexing naval power, and weaponizing media narratives. But the results will not change. The longer it denies the new reality, the more it risks being overtaken by it. Military superiority, once unquestioned, now comes with caveats. And in those caveats lie the seeds of humility or humiliation.

It is time for the West to choose. Not between war and peace, but between hegemony and coexistence. Not between missiles and diplomacy, but between delusion and realism. The era of might is right by assuming that technological advantage ensures victory is coming to a screetching stop. The age of multipolar defence, of distributed innovation, of disciplined deterrence, is dawning. The West must adapt or be reduced to chasing its own fading shadows.
Iran’s missile may not have destroyed the whole of occupied Palestine, but it destroyed a fantasy. It exposed the cracks in a system that still sees the world through the eyes of the empire. It offered a quiet, formidable warning: if we can get through all your layers, then you can no longer claim to be untouchable.

If those in power can still use what remains of their brain, they will understand this not as a humiliation but as an invitation. To deescalate. To negotiate. To respect. Because the missile that landed was not just a symbol of strength. It was a call to peaceful coexistence. And the sooner the West hears it, the better for all humanity. The world has changed. Either we share it in peace or lose it in pieces.

_Mahfuz Mundadu_
PoliticsRe: The True Owners Of Cattle In Nigeria by potent5(m): 11:25am On Jun 18, 2025
Purveyors of propaganda have started. The herders have no excuse for whatever evil they are doing.
Foreign AffairsRe: Why Does Iran Launch Missiles At Night? by potent5(m):
Launching their attack at night will give it the necessary visibility for their propaganda machines to take pictures and push their narratives. [quote author=matify83 post=135777097][/quote]
PhonesRe: Trump Jr And Eric Trump Sons Of USA President Lunches The Trump Mobile Phone by potent5(m): 8:32am On Jun 17, 2025
I don't see this investment as one that will thrive.
Foreign AffairsRe: Ali Shadmani: Israel Kills Iran's Top Commander In Charge Of Iranian Armed Force by potent5(m): 8:15am On Jun 17, 2025
Israel really means business. They should call for a truce before what happened to Hamas happens to Iranian leadership. shocked

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