₦airaland Forum

onuman:
Her mother was actually waiting for her father to die.

Clature:
South Africans are harsh oh, nawa, can never be affiliated with them in anyway but I must commend them for giving it to us hard, asides the killings, that one is a stretch.

The truth is “most” Nigerians are animals; yesterday I was driving in Abuja and someone threw out a fairly sized bag of trash from their car onto the road, I was perplexed. Same yesterday and as always, I obeyed a traffic stop sign and the drivers behind me were not having it, of course they were ignored.

Let’s keep playing and I know some people will still hop on a flight to South Africa tonight.

We will remain global pariahs until we are all ready to sit and fix up.

bestofnollywood:
https://applesbite.com/plo-lumumba-walks-off-stage-after-governor-nyongos-arrival-interrupts-speech/

carzeem1:
It's an economic decision for the airline, Minster Keyamo has no influence on that matter.

Razzness:
But on a serious note, why does Tinubu almost never show his face in these kinds of events

Apcpalava:
If you like get 605 titles igbo people know say you and your husband don spoil nigeria nah OBI get all the whole votes in SE

njokuuche77:
I trust my igbo brethren. Everything na business 😁 🤣 😂
She is recklessly spending money on a lost cause.

Validated:
This is the very reason his government is like this:
Chief of Army Staff: Yoruba
CDI: Yoruba
IGP: Yoruba
FIRS:Yoruba
DSS DG:Yoruba
NNPC: Yoruba
Min of Blue Economy: Yoruba
Min of Interior: Yoruba
Chief Justice of Nigeria: Yoruba
HOS:Yoruba
CBN gov: Yoruba
EFCC chair: Yoruba
Min of Fin: Yoruba
Fin Reporting Council:Yoruba
Nig Customs:
NIA: YorubaYoruba
Nig immigration:Yoruba[75%]
NURTW: Yoruba
... the list goes on.

lordprogress:
i was having this discussion with my friend who wants to relocate there for his post graduate studies, he said the u.s is the best place to achieve your dreams, they have world class infastructure from science to medicine just name them but do they give a sh*t about africa absolutely no they are just a capitalist and imperialist state that wants to control the world even if it means wiping out an entire continent.

Curious345:
Very true . It's quoted on daily Times

Radicalwarrior:
A fresh tension is brewing after reports this week of an alleged attack on the convoy of NDC Party presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, during a visit to Benue State.

Some Igbo community leaders and commentators have reacted strongly, demanding clarification and an apology from the Benue State Government and stakeholders in the state.

Social media reports this week claimed Obi's convoy was blocked and harassed by some youths in Benue. As of today, September 10, 2026.

The Benue State Government has also not issued an official statement on the incident at the time of filing this report.


In a press statement circulating from Enugu and Abia, some elders identifying as Igbo stakeholders said they were disturbed by the report and have asked Benue authorities to investigate.

The group said it is inviting the Governor of Benue State to Abia State on September 13, 2026, to ask him to explain what happened and to ensure such an incident does not repeat itself.

Peter Obi is our son, but he is also a presidential candidate who should be able to move freely in any part of Nigeria. We demand a full investigation and a public apology since this attack is confirmed," the statement read. "Nigeria's constitution allows every Nigerian to live and move anywhere."


The statement also contained warnings about retaliation against Benue indigenes living in the South East if no action is taken. Legal experts and civil society groups have strongly condemned such retaliation talk.


Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, has in the past consistently called for peace between Igbo and Benue/Tiv communities, recalling their long history of trade and coexistence.



1. Police Investigation: Benue Police Command should issue a factual report on what happened to Obi's convoy.
2. Dialogue, Not Ultimatum: The proposed September 13 meeting in Abia should be used for peace-building, not threats.
3. Protection For All: Both South East governors and the Benue State Governor must assure all Nigerians in their states of safety.



An alleged attack on any political figure is serious and must be investigated. But turning it into an ethnic confrontation between Igbos and Benue people will only create more problems. Nigerians in all regions are urging calm and asking security agencies to do their work.

Kushites:
OK. SINCE TINUBU IS BUSY, LET ME USE THE AI FOR HIM AND RESPOND TO ATIKU


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Atiku’s "Dollar Illusion" is the Desperate Rhetoric of a Failed Alternative

It is profoundly ironic that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who has spent decades auditioning to lead Nigeria on a platform of privatization and deregulation, has suddenly developed selective amnesia. His latest tirade against the Federal Government’s fiscal triumphs is nothing more than a masterclass in political hypocrisy and desperate economic distortion.

Atiku’s critique relies on a lazy, dishonest gimmick: evaluating Nigeria’s sovereign domestic economy entirely through the lens of the US Dollar. By doing so, he insults the intelligence of Nigerians and deliberately obfuscates the massive structural rot his own political era helped create.


The Political Counter-Attack 1. The Hypocrisy of a Ghost Reformer

* The Rebuttal: For years, Atiku campaigned on the promise that he would eliminate the corrupt fuel subsidy regime and unify the exchange rate market "even if they killed him."

Yet, now that President Tinubu has shown the political courage to actually make these hard choices, Atiku has weaponized the inevitable transitional pains for cheap political points.

* The Reality: Atiku does not weep for the Nigerian worker; he weeps for the lost campaign talking points. He cannot praise deregulation in his manifesto and then condemn the fiscal reality of that deregulation when implemented by a bolder leader.


2. The Deceptive "Dollar-Standard" Fallacy

* The Rebuttal: Atiku’s weaponization of dollar conversions is an economic scam. Nigeria’s economy operates on the Naira, not the
Dollar. Civil servants buy food, pay school fees, and rent houses in Naira.

* The Reality: By benchmark-pricing Nigeria’s minimum wage and state allocations entirely in USD, Atiku betrays his elite worldview—
one that views Nigeria only through the lens of foreign capital and overseas spending.

The ₦21 trillion FAAC distribution represents real, tangible local liquidity that is building roads, funding schools, and paying teachers across 36 states—things that cannot be wished away by Atiku’s arbitrary currency conversions.


3. Unmasking the "Subsidy Illusion" of 2019

* The Rebuttal: Atiku nostalgic reference to 2019’s FAAC figures is an admission of guilt. The "cheap dollars" and lower Naira numbers of 2019 were an artificial, unsustainable hallucination funded by trillions of Naira in bleeding subsidies that nearly bankrupted the country.

* The Reality: The previous status quo was a ticking financial bomb. The Tinubu administration chose to diffuse that bomb, redirecting funds from the pockets of billionaire fuel smugglers and arbitrage traders directly to state and local governments.

Calling the recovery of these stolen trillions a "monetary illusion" proves Atiku would prefer to feed the syndicates than fund the states.


4. Intellectual Dishonesty on State Debts

* The Rebuttal: Atiku points to state debts to claim the revenue boom is fake. This is an embarrassing display of fiscal illiteracy from someone who chaired the National Economic Council.

* The Reality: Debt is a function of capital development, not a sign of failure. The historic surge in FAAC allocations has given states the unprecedented capacity to actually service their debts while simultaneously investing in massive infrastructure projects. Atiku wants Nigerians to look at a state's liabilities while ignoring the new highways, agricultural hubs, and security networks those liabilities are building.


5. Empty Rhetoric vs. Structural Actions

* The Rebuttal: Atiku asks, "Where is the money going?" while ignoring the massive fiscal reforms staring him in the face.

* The Reality: The money is going toward the Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) transport revolution that is slitting transport costs in half. It is going into the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to ensure poor children go to university. It is going into the direct pockets of workers through a more than 130% increase in the minimum wage. It is going into plugging the systemic leakages that Atiku’s political associates historically exploited.


Atiku Abubakar’s "brutal arithmetic" is nothing but brutal political opportunism. Having been repeatedly rejected at the polls by the Nigerian people, he is reduced to acting as a professional doomsayer.

He attempts to wave away record-breaking revenue generation and institutional tax reforms because he cannot stomach the fact that this administration is successfully rewriting Nigeria’s economic foundations—foundations that his generation of politicians left decayed.

Bigger numbers do mean bigger value when they represent real independence from predatory subsidies, and no amount of dollar-denominated gaslighting from Atiku's Dubai palace can change that reality.

Jeezuzpick:
Most of those goons you see there are not happy with the governor.

Why?

He's not lining their pockets.

Orlandoo:
This is Phrank Shaibu speaking. Man is well learned and sagacious.

HacheNoire:
You nailed it comrade!

God bless you!

Niccoloimhotep:
The Nigerian government has reportedly entered into a secret ceasefire agreement with the Boko Haram faction led by Bakura Doro, a development that has kept parts of northeastern Nigeria relatively calm for the past three months, according to a report by The New Humanitarian.

PREMIUM TIMES reports that the factions, spread across the North-east and North-central Nigeria, are believed to be loyal to Mr Doro, who succeeded Abubakar Shekau, who was killed in a 2021 infighting with rival Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Two of the factions are believed to be based in the North-east and led by Ali Ngulde and Alhai Kale, while the one in the North-central is led by Mallam Sadiku.
PREMIUM TIMES reports that the factions, spread across the North-east and North-central Nigeria, are believed to be loyal to Mr Doro, who succeeded Abubakar Shekau, who was killed in a 2021 infighting with rival Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).

Two of the factions are believed to be based in the North-east and led by Ali Ngulde and Alhai Kale, while the one in the North-central is led by Mallam Sadiku.

Mr Doro is believed to be currently based in Lake Chad island, taking advantage of the weak security presence in the area to deeply entrench himself there.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/908140-nigerian-government-reportedly-enters-secret-ceasefire-agreement-with-boko-haram.html

MamaFryo:
Why did Federal Co-operative College and Federal College of Land Resources Technology appear among Nigeria’s biggest payment recipients, while major healthcare agencies and academic institutions are conspicuously absent?



Wetin I even know sef? I'm just an ordinary Nigerian Policewoman.

Reference:
Details of this 'development' pls.
Where is all this money going.

HacheNoire:
The attack was directed at Hakeem. She would have called Biden a monkey to if she had to.

Do you know the Hakeem counting to defend? That dude will throw you inside an incinerator if AIPAC told him too without thinking twice.

He stands for nothing!

HacheNoire:
If truth must be told, she did not lie!

If there was anything more derogatory to describe Hakeem, it will still be welcomed.

Thats not racism but an insult!

Hakeem himself will walk every Black man into the incinerator if AIPAC demands. They have bought his mind body and soul. Some people say maybe hi is being blackmailed.

Dude stands for nothing! A betrayal to humanity.

MemphitzDgreat1:
Where's the lie?
The quality of life was waaaaaaaaaay lot better then than now. It's a shame that Nigeria's past was a whole lot better than her present

Chucks13:
Alright Donald Duke it's a fine idea but you would have never become a governor talkless of knowing who the hell are you if Millitary have be in charge ever since.

You benefitted massively under democracy but now your account no longer receives Ghana must go filled wth cash you suddenly remember millitary rule.

Hello Duke stf pls..

Kukutente23:
Yet you have one who is begging a Judge in US not to release his drug files
You had one who became President after doing boy boy for Obama
The train already left you at the station bro

ogododo:
Omeiza Ajayi

ABUJA: Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has accused the Federal Government of reckless borrowing despite a windfall in oil revenue, saying the administration of President Bola Tinubu has continued to pile up domestic debts at a time crude oil prices have soared well above the benchmark used for the 2026 budget.


In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, the former vice president said it was troubling that the government would borrow ₦24.7 trillion domestically between January and August 2026 even as it enjoys higher earnings from crude sales.



He described the scale of the borrowing as unprecedented, noting that it represented a 90.5 per cent increase over what was borrowed in the same period of 2025.

“At the beginning of this fiscal year, the Federal Government budgeted on an oil benchmark of $64.85 per barrel. Today, crude oil prices have risen substantially above that benchmark.


“Yet, instead of this windfall translating into lower borrowing, stronger businesses and relief for Nigerians, the Federal Government went into the domestic market and borrowed a staggering ₦24.7 trillion between January and August 2026 — 90.5 per cent more than the ₦12.98 trillion borrowed in the corresponding period of 2025.

“This is not fiscal management. This is a government borrowing like drunken sailors in the middle of a revenue windfall”, he said.

The former vice president argued that the various reform measures introduced by the Tinubu administration, including the removal of the petrol subsidy and the floating of the naira, ought to have eased pressure on government finances rather than deepened dependence on borrowing.

“So the question Nigerians must ask again is very simple: where is the money going?

“What makes this recklessness even more damaging is that government is now competing directly with Nigerian businesses for money. Credit to government grew by 43 per cent, while credit to the private sector grew by only 9.6 per cent. Government credit is expanding about 4.5 times faster than credit to businesses.


“This government is not merely borrowing money; it is borrowing away the future of Nigerian businesses.

“Nigeria cannot achieve prosperity by allowing government to swallow the credit that should finance production. An economy grows when businesses borrow to build factories, farmers borrow to expand production and entrepreneurs access affordable capital to create jobs — not when government becomes the biggest and most voracious customer in the banking hall.

“My administration will impose fiscal discipline, cut waste, prioritise productive expenditure and progressively reduce government’s suffocating dependence on the domestic credit market.

“Government must make room for the private sector to breathe, invest, produce and employ”, he stated.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/fg-borrowing-like-drunken-sailor-despite-revenue-windfall-atiku/