₦airaland Forum

OlawaleBammie:
When is UK coming to free the mon.ki

Idlot, I am glad you sold your birth right yourself.

Sermwell:
I see both online and offline how people freak out at the sight of a celebrity. Some even go as far as rushing or grabbing them.

I have never been to any show, let alone wanting to go up stage to grab a celebrity. I saw how a young man was kicked by Burna Boy and I felt really disgusted because such nonsense can never happen to me.

Early last year, I was on the 6th floor at BUA Group headquarters in Victoria Island where I saw Tekno and Davido sitting down at the reception having a chat, I just greeted them and sat down. I also saw how every other person on that floor was minding their business and don't really give a damn about their presence.

When I told a cousin how I feel weird on how people go crazy at the sight of these celebrities, he said it's not normal but I strongly disagree with him. I even told him how some staff at BUA Group didn't give a damn about Davido"s presence, he insisted that they are not also normal.

Do you guys here share my views, or do you think it's not normal?

You are not alone my brother, same here. I have never been to a night club, nor any of those shows. Why would you when you don't desire to be like them? Celebrity worship is a thing for a lot. I hope you know some people get to the extent of fainting? I see it as them being weird, but, who am I to judge. If it rocks their boat, oya, make dem continue. But as for me, I give no hoot about anyone I don't have any business with.

maivd:
I agree that he is bn held unjustly, but the fact that he jumped bail and instigated alot of people against the government during endsars is very pivotal to his bn held in detention. And don't forget that some of your people sold him out to Buhari. If Kanu is released, it's automatic death judgement for those people. So you see it's their life or his life.

I am glad you acknowledged he is being held unjustly, but let us consider his bail-jump. His lawyers successfully argued that his escape was justified, which was prompted by the unauthorized invasion of his space by the military, with an intent to kill him. The judge upheld their argument and knocked the fg for that. Recall that he had won the fg, up until the supreme court.

When has insulting govt become what many others have not done in Nigeria, and other liberal states in the world? Come on bro, let us be unbiased. Politically elected leaders should be the most insulted people anywhere in the world. If you cannot take insults, then don't run for any office please.

You are the one saying his people sold him out to buhari. Is people selling out their people a good thing?

Ishilove:
He is. He is a sore loser

Indeed he is, even though there's truth in what he said, he used a blanket statement for women. Some women are decent and hardworking, though few in Nigeria.

As it is becoming a trend for some men to be lazy and only resorting to demonic activities to make money, just to lure women. So also some women are on the lookout for such men.

maivd:
Stop this hypocritical nonsense, if there was a pact,you do everything with your power to make sure you play your position. Did Ibos play there part in securing victory in any of the 5 states for Tinubu? Answer is NO,it was overwhelming victory for Obi. Nobody is questioning your loyalty, but don't ask for Jack when you didn't play your part. Note:me personally I am not and never bn a fan of Tinubu. You didn't do any for him as a Tribe all he got from you was insults.

I don't know if they have any pact with anyone. But I am writing as a Nigeria, not Igbo. The way Kanu's case is being handled, do you think the government is right. In all honesty please. Should there be a pact for a man whom the court had set free to be released?

emkz:
Interesting.

Peter Obi's intervention is timely, welcome and needed.

However, most of his arguments seem pedestrian and ill-thought out.

It is not in his place to manage the president. So the suggestion that the president should spend his holidays in different parts of the country or use the National Hospital or visit tertiary institutions or travel through highways do not make sense.

It is curious that this same man opposed the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. Suddenly, he wants the president to travel on highways. As for the president visiting educational facilities or each state, each state has a governor, three senators, at least a minister, and several houses of representatives members. It is not in the place of the president to be everywhere. His ministers are responsible for certain beats.

Asking the president to go to the frontlines shows Peter Obi's backwardness. What happened to Idris Derby Itno? Since Peter Obi is not exactly employed at this time and has been gallivanting, he can set an example and go to the frontlines to motivate our troops.

It is curious that the only comparison Peter Obi could draw was when he took Obasanjo on a road trip that triggered Obasanjo to order the repair of parts of a federal highway. Why couldn't Peter Obi draw parallels to his innovative ideas in rapid infrastructural development, healthcare, education and industrialization? Of ourselves, he couldn't because he was sorely lacking in developmental ideas; hence his pedestrian suggestions.

Dear Peter Onwuabasi Obi (POO), the things you suggest are not propositions on running a country. Enjoy your gallivanting and aimless twitter threads and allow those who have the mandate to lead.

You are not ready to lead Nigeria.

I hope you have good intentions for Nigeria and not just out to malign the person of Obi for politics.
Most of Obi's suggestions, to me, seem progressive. This is in the light of the fact that we all assume that the president is only working with the data submitted to him by his foot soldiers. I am sure you saw how the former gover of Plateau, who became Buhari's minister, told us how Buhari was truly not aware of many happenings around him, including the Efcc/Dss fiasco right in front of the president's office. The president visiting some of these institutions once in a while unannounced gives him first hand info.

For the coastal highway, every well meaning Nigerian kicked against it. That was not important at the time. We know it was a money drain and a means of compensating his friend. Many Nigerians advised he should have made existing highways motorable first, such roads as lago-benin, enugu-ph, etc.

Attacking the person Obi doesn't seem to be neccessary here. Obi's records are in the open, and everything he advised he, he did while a governor. He visited schools and medical facilities impromptu and interviews students and staff personally. Thereafter, he made promises, approved projects for them, and followed up to ensure there no embezzlement. He gave his personal phone numbers to senior prefect, medical staff and students, to put management in check.

I know politics and tribalism and hate has divided this country, but let's always remember that posterity will judge us for not fixing what we can. Our children always know if we did well or not during our time.

I responded not to attack you as a person but to challenge your arguments. So, I would not like yiu to use vile words if you wish to respond. I like submitting to superior arguments. Peace.

maivd:
Did ibos vote for him? So stop crying that he didn't honour an agreement when you looked the other way during elections.

Your view is myopic, very myopic. He has bribed his way into the office of the president of the federal Republic of Nigeria, not the president of the few Nigerians who voted him in.

Besides, there were still some Igbos who voted him. How about that.

SalamRushdie:
Your useless govt increased fuel prices by 600 percent and triggered a 1000 percent inflation yet you think 100 percent tarriff increase for Telco is too much ? Do u know all telcos have been running at a loss since Tinubu came

You have a point, but if you do the math's, economy of scales is to their advantage here.
But if 100% will rock their boat, they should insist, or go on strike. Afterall, it is the downtrodden Nigerian that will always suffer it.

The government is actually more useless than you know.

Major1984:
you are a fool, which one is 50% is okay by me, suffering and smiling idiot.No tarrif increase that's what sane Nigerians want

As stupid as your father is, you want mtn to pay for your mistakes? So if mtn increases salary by 100%,importation cost up by about 950% due to naira devaluation, fuel price up by almost 1000%, overhead expenses shoot up by about 400%, you want them to keep revenue the same? How do you want them to pay salaries. Idiot!

100% no too much? 50% seems to me to be ok.

mohbadliveson:
Let's pray for IBB please

Bible says we should pray for our leaders

For what exactly? People never pray for Gbola, na Maradona.

Is Gbola an honorable man? What did they expect?

He went to know if the man has sang so they agree on a story, then he will assure him he will pull his connections to get him out. Just an assurance. What an ally should do anyway.

Nigerians have become play toys for these hyenas. God help the ordinary man. Did they not tell us that PH and Warri refineries are now working? Shouldn't Dangote be exporting his fuel now and allow NNPC feed the Nigerian market?

Lol, they are kicking. Obi's achievements are actually measurable and evident in black and white. I no gree for dis one wey dem talk.

I am so astonished some people actually believe this government means well for the ordinary Nigerian. It beats me.

Sirseedorf:
Nigerian are too dumb to always blame the president whereas the governors are closer to us, and their allocation are unaccountable because everybody has turned a blind eye towards their mismanagement and indecisive in office....

True, from the LG chairmen sef. But that does not mean the president should be left out, all the criminal politicians should not be allowed to have any form of peace.

Creativeseeker:
This incantations of various African traditional religions practice is it directly related to alleged spells that some books claim Solomon practiced to become the wisest man ever in the World

It is like a formula. 1+1=2. Anyhow 1 jam another 1, they will automatically become 2. Same way, certain words, mixed with the disposition of the inner being of the speaker, activates particular spirit beings. Some, after the incantations, you have to carry out further acts, like making a mark on the ground (like circle, or the star of david, which are called porals), which acts as open doors for these spirits to move from the plane where they exist to our world, or performing rituals by shedding animal or human blood.

From my brief up there, some spirits are easy to summon, while others are not. In most cases, the more difficult they are to summon, the more difficult they are to be sent away. For instance, a love portion prepared by the crushing of the heads of 7 tortoise and eaten by a man, is more difficult to break than the 'touch-and-follow' bought from an aboki in the market. A 'goodluck charm' ordered online, is less effective than a goodluck charm prepared using a cow. But, the demonic trick is, once you start by buying the seemingly 'harmless and cheap' charm, it works like a gas fire and fizzles away. Then you have tasted the luck the demons brought, and it disappears. This will make you long for more. You will now be asked to kill a chicken (which will attract a fairly stronger demon that can drag more luck to you than the previous). Not too long later, but certainly longer than the previous, it fizzles away. Then a stronger demon will have to be summonsed with goat's blood.

But one thing to note is, for every demon/spirit you summon, you become exposed and more susceptible to being attacked and possessed by demons, unless you specifically employ particular spirits to protect you from particular spirits/issues, which also comes at hefty price.

Life is much much deeper than we know it. But whatever you do, stay away from such, it never ends well.

descartes400:
Please be specific! Jesus cannot be the ONLY WAY to the Universal Divine Being otherwise referred to as GOD.. if at all he exist. How can you take the Jewish/Hebrew god folklore aka yahweh and arrogate
to it a Universal attribute.

My address was to Christians. The discussion was around the church bro.

Make una dey carry all these nonsense dey commot here abeg. Everyone should know himself, evaluate his relationship with God and strengthen same. No man should look up to another man for salvation, Jesus is the ONLY WAY to God. Anything short of that is stvupidity.

rexchazy:
Investigate[b] your president who is adjudged as the third most corrupt leader in the whole world.[/b] Act like the South Korean if you have ball else your anti corruption message is vague

O bot, I miss this info. Any link?

kings59:
You are just cutting your leg and eating it at the same time. What can you say about APC? Haven't they monopolized everything in Nigeria?

You want me to call black white? APC is evil and has no good plan for Nigeria. Now ask another question.

fergie001:
Australia High Commission, Abuja

NIGERIA RETALIATES

Nigeria has finally grown some balls. Even though many Nigerians will trash this, the FG has shown the world that nobody has monopoly of advisory. Every country has what plaques them.

Sapasenator:
Hello Nairalanders,

I am completely lost and need advice. My name is Olumide Adeyanju(Not my real name), and I’m a 42-year-old civil engineer based in Lagos. I’ve been married to my wife, Tola, for seven years. We have a son together, Jidenna, who is five years old. Our marriage hasn’t been perfect, but I thought we had something solid—until recently.

When I met Tola, she was a divorcee. She told me her first marriage to a man named Dapo Olatunji ended after three years due to irreconcilable differences and I believed her. According to her, Dapo had anger issues and was overly controlling. She said she left the marriage to protect her mental health and focus on building a better life for herself. At the time, I admired her courage, and we built a beautiful relationship.

Last month, everything changed. Tola and I were invited to a wedding in Lekki. As fate would have it, Dapo was also at the wedding. It was the first time they were seeing each other in nearly 10 years. I noticed they exchanged pleasantries, and while it seemed cordial at first, something about the way they looked at each other didn’t sit well with me.

In the weeks that followed, I started noticing subtle changes in Tola’s behavior. She began acting distant and spending more time on her phone, often smiling at her screen like a teenager in love. When I asked her what was going on, she brushed it off, saying it was just "work stress."

Then, two weeks ago, I came home early from work and found her on a video call with Dapo. She didn’t realize I was home, so I overheard parts of their conversation. They were laughing and reminiscing about their past together—things like how they used to travel to Abuja for weekend getaways and the time he bought her a surprise gift for her birthday. It felt like I was intruding on a private moment between lovers.

When I confronted her, she admitted that she and Dapo had been talking regularly since the wedding. She claimed it was "nothing serious" and that they were just "catching up as friends." But I don’t believe her. Her behavior has changed so much. She’s more secretive, and I even found out she met up with him last Saturday without telling me. She said it was a "closure" meeting, but why does she need closure after all these years?

Now I’m stuck. I love Tola, but it feels like her heart is being drawn back to Dapo. I’ve spoken to my elder brother, Kunle, and he thinks I should stand my ground and fight for my marriage. But my best friend, Tunde, says I should let her go if she’s already emotionally checked out.

I don’t know what to do. Should I confront Dapo directly? Should I give Tola an ultimatum to stop talking to him? Or should I quietly walk away and let her decide who she really wants to be with?

Please, Nairalanders, I need your honest opinions. Have you experienced or heard of a situation like this? How do I handle it?

Don't be a mugu and dull yourself, to me, her attitude is already damaging. Show.some fury and be ready to throw whatever you have with her out the window.
1. Hack her phone.
2. Drag her to a meeting with her family.
3. In that meeting, issue an ultimatum.
4. Tell her you have forgiven her for cheating (she has fvcked that man 2 weeks ago)
5. If she doesn't cut him.off immediately (since she said the fvck was closure), kick her out. I can't stand a cheating woman, no matter how beautiful she looks.
6. But before you do all these, make sure you are not a dirty cheat yourself.

Thank God you didn't stay oga.

Before nko, e remain to drive Nigerians out, or put them to forced labour.

LibertyRep:
Will there ever be peace in this world?

Aren't people tired of chaos?

Lol, even in your small circle of friends, is there absolute peace? This is human nature, contention for supremacy, dorminance

benuejosh:
where's the husband?

They said 'single mom'. E mean say the father of the boy did not marry her, e get wetin make am japa, despite say she get money. Or maybe na she chase the man away.

Ibst:
It's practicalize

z is American while s is British. Long ago, if you use z in spelling in Nigeria, your teacher will fail you. Later, many microsoft word packages are set to use American English, flagging British spellings as wrong sometimes. Many use autocorrection and thus dish out write-ups with mixed (American and British english). Today, it seems very few or nobody cares anymore.

Tayorshd87:
Even with high average salaries it's only civil servant that are entitled to it..

So even if beauty building and fat salaries are in naija too so everybody will be able to afford it right 🤔

Nigerians always demoralize their country and don't know what God has done for them .

It is not true, they what God has done for them. They know they are being punished with bad leaders, perhaps because of how bad they are. That is why people who think they are reasonable don't have the courage to call out evil leadership because they are benefitting, and are Aldo lying in wait for an opportunity to take over as evil leaders. They know, that is why they can be bought for $1 to vote criminals. They know.

Softmirror:
Go to Abijan the economic Capital (modified) of Ivory Coast and you will marvel at price of rent which is actually paid monthly. We pay chicken change in Nigeria and yearly for that matter.

What is the average salary in Abidjan?

Lol, they the escaped criminals' next move already