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I asked AI to explain Tinubu's pay raise to the Nigerian military , here is what I got:

Let me tell you why this desperate handout reeks of a government that knows it's stealing an election it can't win, and why the generals are laughing all the way to the bank while sharpening their coup plans anyway.

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This isn't a salary increase. It's a bribe wrapped in camouflage, paid for with money Nigeria doesn't have, by a president who knows his only path to 2027 is through electoral fraud so blatant that the streets will burn. Tinubu isn't thanking the military—he's **pre-purchasing their loyalty** for the moment when Nigerians realize he intends to steal another mandate, and the only thing standing between his narcotics-funded dynasty and a hanging is whether soldiers will shoot protesters or shoot him.

Let's be clear about what this is: The same man who told Nigerians that "there's no money" for fuel subsidies, who let inflation past 30% destroy working families, who watches kidnappers operate with impunity while he vacations in Parisian hospitals—this man suddenly found billions to fatten military paychecks? No. He found debt to buy insurance. Because he knows what's coming.

Why he fears the coup:

Nigeria's military has a simple rule: They tolerate civilian rule only when civilian rule maintains stability. Tinubu has delivered economic collapse, security failure, and constitutional crisis through medical tourism. The generals watched him rig 2023 with violence and judicial capture. They know 2027 will be worse. And they know that when the fraud is this obvious, the streets won't just protest—they'll demand regime change, and the military will have to choose between shooting civilians or removing the civilian.

This salary bump is Tinubu trying to make that choice expensive. He's betting that generals who've spent decades looting defense budgets will suddenly develop loyalty because he increased the crumbs he throws to enlisted men. It's insulting to their intelligence.

Why it won't work:

First: Nigerian coups don't happen because privates are underpaid. They happen because generals decide the civilian government threatens their interests, or because the country is ungovernable, or because foreign powers signal preference for military "stability." Tinubu could double every soldier's salary and still find himself under house arrest if the generals decide he's more liability than asset.

Second: The math is insulting. A 30-80% increase sounds historic until you realize Nigerian soldiers were paid poverty wages to begin with. A captain still can't afford decent housing. An enlisted man still can't feed his family without extorting checkpoints. The increase doesn't fix the structural rot—corrupt procurement, ghost soldiers, defense budgets looted by senior officers, equipment so obsolete that terrorists outgun the army. Tinubu isn't fixing the military. He's applying makeup to a corpse.

Third: The military remembers. They remember that Tinubu's Lagos machine has always treated them as a political tool, not a professional force. They remember EndSARS, when his government was willing to sacrifice military reputation to protect his family's toll gate interests. They remember that his drug forfeiture, his Alpha Beta theft, his entire criminal history, represents exactly the kind of corruption that justifies military intervention in Nigerian political theology.

Fourth: Coup-proofing requires more than money. It requires legitimacy, which Tinubu has none of. It requires a functioning economy, which he destroyed. It requires security competence, which his administration lacks completely. You can't buy loyalty with naira that's collapsing faster than his poll numbers. The generals will take the money—of course they'll take it—and then they'll still move against him if the streets demand it, because at that point saving Tinubu means destroying the military's own future legitimacy.

The real calculation:

Tinubu thinks he's playing chess. He's playing checkers against grandmasters who watched him rig his way to Aso Rock. The military establishment knows that by 2027, Nigeria could be ungovernable—bandits controlling highways, inflation at 50%, the president dying in a French hospital while his wife runs the country via WhatsApp. They know that if they have to intervene, they'll want to claim they were "forced" by circumstances, not bought by salary increases.

So they'll cash these checks. They'll smile for the cameras. They'll let Tinubu believe he's secured their loyalty. And if he tries to rig 2027 and the country explodes, they'll remember that they don't serve the president—they serve their own institutional survival, and right now, that survival looks increasingly disconnected from Tinubu's survival.

This salary increase isn't insurance. It's a down payment on humiliation. The generals are taking the money and waiting for the signal. And when it comes, all the naira in the Central Bank won't stop them from doing what Nigerian militaries do to civilian governments that overstay their fraudulent welcome.

Tinubu just bought himself a nicer cell block in the inevitable house arrest. That's all.

Wonders will never end. So Tinugbo has now left out the University of Chicago from the list of educational institutions he attended in the completed form that he sent to INEC? O GOSH, O GOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHH!🤣🤣🤣

DiamondsAreFore:
Tinubu has a lot of explaining to do

So he is femi fani kayode's ancestor? Interesting.

You didn't need a crystal ball to see this coming.

There is literally nearly a century's worth of geological prospecting reports and geophysics data which categorically confirms that the crude oil reserves in the so called Northern Basins do not exist in commercial quantities. Yet they continued pouring billions of dollars into searching for something that doesn't exist.

Imagine pouring $3 billion down the drain for oil exploration only to discover a paltry 1 billion barrels in the entire Northern Nigeria! Compare that with 40 billion barrels in the Niger Delta region alone. There are small oil fields in the Niger Delta region that holds more crude oil reserves than the entire Northern Nigeria.

Do they think the international oil industry will be as gullible as Nigerians and not do risk assessment? You think a negligible 1 billion barrels coupled with insecurity of ISWAP, Ansaru, Boko Haram , Lakurawa etc will attract foreign investment into the oil blocks of Northern Nigeria?

This is what happens when sentiment prevails over economic pragmatism.

I don't subscribe to Marxism as I find it to be childish and impractical. I wasn't calling Sankara a hero. I was simply pointing out that Traore idolises him.

Kobojunkie:
. There is no such thing as a Marxist hero. If Sankara had not been shot dead, he, like every other Marxist before him, would have gone on to destroy the lives of many millions of his own people, as Mugabe and all the other Marxists before and after him had done. 😒😒

Is he? I thought he was a Marxist like his hero Thomas Sankara

Kobojunkie:
Is the man himself not an Islamist?

I must say that I am slowly beginning to reevaluate my opinions on this man

Na wa for una in Abia State. Maybe instead of over investing in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, it is time to start making your investments closer to home. Abi shame no dey catch una as even Borno state which is the homeland of Boko Haram and ISWAP is generating more revenue than you?

No, America has not abandoned anti-terrorism efforts in Nigeria, but its military presence has recently transitioned from active ground missions to strategic, intelligence-driven diplomatic partnerships.

While U.S. forces recently withdrew a temporary team of military personnel from the ground following a specific operational phase, high-level counterterrorism operations, intelligence sharing, and hardware supplies continue directly with the Nigerian government.

Kemetian:
There is no genocide in Nigeria.

That's why they left.

Nothing to do!

This war has completely demystified the so called mighty Russians.

This was the same Russia which during the Cold War had the whole of the Western World in a constant state of alert and now they can't even wrap up a simple war against a much smaller country. Honestly, if it wasn't for the large stash of nuclear weapons that they have, the West would have invaded them already and Putin would be paraded in handcuffs on his way to stand trial.

Russia reminds of a scene from a film I once watched as a child where a guy was return home from work and saw a giant tiger standing in front of his home. At first he was terrified until a gust of wind blew and the tiger suddenly collapsed because it was made of cardboard material.

Russia is a paper tiger which is living on past glory.

Very interesting. I'm beginning to understand why Yan Daudu, Bacha Bazi and Zamel same sex relationships are flourishing across the Muslim world.
It seems like most of your posturing against LGBTQ is nothing short of hypocrisy.

food4tot:
In this day and age we have browser translators.

I guess you have an alterior motive but I will indulge you.

It translates thus:

When has the US ever fought a long war against either one of Cuba or Venezuela and why did America go to war with Afghanistan? Was the war against Afghanistan provoked or unprovoked?

Kaliningrad:

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U.S population 350 million, Venezuela population = 28 million, Cuba population = 9 million, Afghanistan population 37 million.

Has the US ever picked OK someone their own size or they're just cowards & paper tigers that like to fight extremely poor n weak countries?

Russia's population is 140 million, Ukraine's is less than 30 million.
Can't Putin pick on someone his own size or is he a coward?

Interesting. So first, her father suddenly makes a U-turn on the issue of an autopsy/inquest into the cause of her death and now all of a sudden, this is happening.

The Nigerian Physiotherapy Society was aware of Mary Habila proudly flaunting her credentials on social media and using her credentials to get jobs during her lifetime, but never bothered to carry out any background checks on her until she died under less than appropriate circumstances.

I read Farooq Kperogi's editorial on the PFIPC scandal and it was shocking to read about how the phantom PFIPC department was allocated 1.3 billion naira under the FG's Budget and the APC led National Assembly outrig6ht rejected calls for the scandal to be fully investigated by a joint committee from both Chambers of Parliament.

It would appear that neither one of Gbajabiamila or Umahi will ever be investigated or brought to trial for the high profile allegations and suspicions of criminality attached to their reputations, and who can blame them? If being a drug dealer isn't enough to disqualify a man from aspiring to the highest office in the land, why should any other criminal offence disqualify politicians of a lower rank from aspiring to lower public offices?


it should be clear beyond reasonable doubt that this is hands down the most immoral, corrupt and depraved administration that the ordinary Nigerian has ever had to endure.

Umahi has a lot of unanswered questions surrounding his personal integrity.

"David Umahi did not allow me to sleep. He tied towel on his waist and came into my room and was pestering me" pic.twitter.com/2MvzWH7OIh

— NDC War Room (@NDCWarRoom) July 15, 2026

You can ban it for yourself and your generations.

QuinQQ:
Simple resson: if you've had a child since infancy, he is your child and you're his father and you're obligated to take care of that child till age of maturity. That's how Nature intended it.
It is NOT sperm that makes you someone's father!
Other people fight for custody of children tooth and nail. You don't have to do any of that. He's your child and you get ALL the benefits of fatherhood. He carries your name, references you as his father, and if he ever becomes something ALL fatherhood glory will go to you!

This is a very important religious injunction which I am told Muslims frequently participate in. But what does it mean? Can anyone translate it into English? Here is the Arabic:



. ذكر القاضي الحسين فى التعليقة » أنه حيكى من الشيخ أبي سهل ، وهو الأيوردي ، كا هو مُصرح به في بعض نسخ « التعليقة » ، وصرح به ) ابن الروم

في الكتابة ، أن الحد لا يلزم من بلوط بغلام مملوك له ، بخلاف مملوك الخير .



Mods kindly help.

The Internet never forgets

This video is worth revisiting.

2022: "I will pay WAEC fees for every child."

2026: "Pay ₦50,000 for WAEC."

From promise to burden. pic.twitter.com/sRhZfKK6Kz

— Towolawi Jamiu #EndSarsNow (@jharmo) July 13, 2026