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WorkTheTalk:
Can someone tell Vice-President JD Vance that Israel does not need his opinion on how to handle the terrorists regime in Iran, and around the world?

go tell him yourself, as if your crass opinion matters to anyone BTW

Number one culprit is the explosion of social media, it fosters comparisons, couples displays fake lifestyles and others wants to emulate that good life on display and pressures thier other halves and ruin thier marriages, then the general economic meltdown that makes it extremely difficult to setup a home, put a woman in it and raise children, bills are crazy this days

Osariemen12:
This is accurate. The global statistics is different from the junks being spread by the Lagos-Ibadan Express media. I have always known that Lagos is nowhere above 15 million people. The fools have being throwing 25 million figure ahead of any census just as they did in 1962 where Ogbomosho is rigged to be more populated than Port Harcourt, Benin City, and Aba.

So true, what they don't understand is that population number and the dwelling sizes and space of kano and Lagos differs significantly, Lagos land size is very tiny and without traffic a car can cover it in less than three hours, so because the population is compressed in to such a tiny space and the traffic chaos gives the impression of volume and that's where they are mistaken, y'all ever wonder why Kano has leapfrogged Lagos as the golden bride of elections vote numbers over Lagos? coupled with the facts that northerns population grows geometrically while that of South arithmeticaly? hausa man dey born oooo.

Princedapace:
This is one topic people arent talking about enough!
Why are their regular masses not found in private sectors both home and abroad breaking records, doing great things like Igbos and Yorubas and the rest of southern Nigeria regular masses are doing? Look at what Igbos, yorubas and the rest of southern Nigerians created out of content creation industry, movies and music induries, tech industries, etc. I rarely see northerners in tech space! I honestly dont know why southern Nigerian politicians are this f#olish. We should be demanding to quit Nigeria because obviously, the northern region is a complete problem. With the way southerners work, it means we even commit to tax more than Northerners. This means southern regular masses sweat out, pay tax heavily, so both our tax sweat and natural resources are used to fund the life style of northern elites. We have weak politicians. This madness must end in our parent time, my generation will fight against this madness. It must be merit driven society or everyone go your separate way. I cant be working and funding a society whose governors will conduct mass wedding for unproductive people who are jobless but can make babies and leave them off the street to become bandits and terrorize me later.

Absolutely correct 💯👍, I am a Muslim and from the middle belt and I completely understand and relate to your position

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AreaFada2:
Kudos to the ladies.

The surnames being Western may be a coincidence.

Many Southerners have Western names for various reasons. Like the Brazilians and Sierra Leoneans/Saros/Creoles of Lagos. Remember people like Femi Pedro, Pinheiro, Ajayi Crowther, Mobolaji Johnson, Adeniyi Jones, Herbert Macaulay, Da Costa, etc. Even Gomez is a popular Lagos family. In fact, many changed their surnames to Yoruba over time, otherwise there would be more Western names.

You may remember the royal branch of the Owa Obokun, the Haastrup, currently the Oba of Ijesha in Osun State. The history from prince to slave to Oba is quite well-known. Haastrup upon return from slavery established a large kola nut farm in a part of Lagos to become known as Igbobi. You have the Orthopaedic Hospital there today.

In Igbo land, due to Catholicism, many people are named after saints, popes, doctors of the church, etc. Like Anacletus/Cletus, Boniface, Gregory, Benedict, Innocent, John, Clement, etc.

In Niger Delta, Europeans wrote down native names the way it would be easy for them to pronounce or relate to. A name like Horsfall. If a local ruler was under another king, they wrote down his name as Duke, being a ruler lesser than a king. With baptism, people got fancy English names too. Soon, local traditional names were being given in English equivalent like Fineface, Strongbone, Godsgift, Government, Company, Manager, Wiseman (like a king's or duke's adviser), Soldier, Happy, Patience, Warrior, etc. Imagine writing Akin, Balogun, Akogun and others in English.

Even Oba Dosunmu in Lagos was written as Docemo in the British-Lagos agreement ceding Lagos to Queen Victoria in mid-19th century. There is Docemo Street in Lagos till today.

Rhodes-Vivour came under focus due to politics in recent years.

Our interactions with Europeans have left lasting marks on us, including family history and names.

What a brilliant insights from you bro 🙏👏, are you a University professor BTW?

I am a member of the Abuja tennis club and about a month ago I joined a team of three gentlemen already tossing and I completed them to start a game of four players, unknown to me that on my opposite side was this same Grammer grandmaster Mr Patrick, and trust me he is a descent tennis player and shockingly unassuming, after the game he spoke very mundane and simple english, until someone else now revealed his identity, very awesome dude. Congratulations sir if you are reading this.

geoworldedu:
This is what you get when you pitch your tent with a terrorist nation like Israel. Wise people like us already knew that Israel will eventually drag USA and Trump into mess. Israel is a pig and will do anything to get messy. We see how they behave right from the bible.

"Wheresoever the sole of our feet shall tread shall be given to us for possession"

Hitler hit them hard those days.

Awon Fulani ancestors

Isn't astonishing how a country that was once admired and loved by a large proportion of the world to now ranking as by far the most despised and hated, the innocent souls and spirits of the 70k plus women and children they murdered in cold blood in the guise of self defense will haunt them forever 😔😔

obeegee:
I have been on a commercial flight with him in December 2025. Delta between USA and Lagos when he came for an appearance in Lagos during Detty december

Maybe he is just being smarter with his money

like seriously 😳

Lamasta:
Trump should step aside and let Israel deal with those terrorist

Deal with who? Iran? has your Almighty US been able to achieve that feat? Keep dreaming and sleeping in LaLa land

Axis313:
She is 100% correct,in Islam,it is the husband's duty to provide for the household.
No matter how rich the wife is, it is not compulsory for her to provide but she can support the household.

Al rijal qawwamun ala nisa" (الرِّجَالُ قَوَّٰمُونَ عَلَى ٱلنِّسَآءِ) is a well-known phrase from the 34th verse of Surah An-Nisa in the Quran (4:34). It translates to: "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women".The verse outlines the foundational roles and responsibilities within a marriage in Islam.
Its core concepts are:
Maintenance and Protection: The verse states that men are designated as caretakers because God has given them strengths to excel over others, and because they are required to spend their wealth to provide for and protect their families.

Reciprocal Rights: Scholars emphasize that this role implies heavy responsibilities rather than absolute authority. Men are required to ensure the financial security, physical safety, and overall well-being of their families.

Thanks a million times for your brilliant insights 👏👍🙏

Good move from the ICC, how can few people be such an insane terror to the world and they are still spewing murderous and dangerous rhetorics til now, they should understand that they will be held accountable for murdering 70k plus Palestinians women and children in cold blood in the guise of taking out Hamas, the Austrian painter probably knew something about them that's just playing out in our very eyes🤔🤔

Morals of this grand humiliation suffered by Amorica, ) Never ever overestimate your strength and underestimate that of your enemy, 2) If you see a sleeping Bear afar don't go and poke it

WhizdomXX:
Kanwulia come and see what I was saying.

This stats is for the wilfully blind obidients to see again have been screaming that PO won the last elections but was rigged out, essentially he didn't satisfy the basic constitutional requirements of 2/3 of 36 to win because of lack of spread, they won lagos but elections wasn't rigged but all the places Tinubu won elections were massively rigged while forgetting enugu state where PO won more than 98%

Wow that's so so cute and awesome, and it doesn't look staged, he absolutely a breath of fresh air for the Nigerian police that citizens don't have affection towards because thier acts of cowardice is upsetting.

OnionBandit:
I talk am. The day the world will know the true extent of damage suffered by the US from Iran is the day the world will lose the shikini respect they still have for the US

World power nonsense

infact they got thier asses so whooped that they had to hurriedly scamper the biggest and most advanced aircraft carrier, Gerald Ford to somewhere out of range of Iranian missiles, In life never ever apease a bully, and if you are a bully never ever poke a sleeping Bear 🐻👊👊👊

The only problem with him is that he needs a mentor or a life coach, someone who can paint a broad and bigger picture for him to emulate, he is like a wild being that needs taming, he is now a worldwide brand and he needs to shed off his gra gra😁😁😁

lordopsy2018:
Everything thing about Nigeria is fraudulent

Not only Nigeria, even in England too, Micheal Oliver is a close ally and in the paybook of the owners of Manchester City, he favours them unashamedly, he even received a golden wrist watch from the city owners, so na everywhere only say Nigeria own worse pass 😩😩😩

The best teacher ever in controlling aggressiveness is to take a trip to the prison and talk to inmates that are there for sundry offences, half of those inmates are there because of offences induced by instant and uncontrolled anger, and conditions in Nigerian prison is worse than hell, infact the highest form of provocation is catching a man banging your wife on your matrimonial bed and some people who had control of thier emotions in that heat of the moment to kill the man but chose to walk away and probably divorce and went ahead to rebuild their lives often end up being happy for not killing the cheating wife or the man

Wait a minute, this is a statutory function of an appointed government official in the person of the current Minister of trades and industry, you can't be parleying with another country appointed official in a private capacity rather you can do that with members of the organized private sector of another country, oversylabus and oversabi naim go kpai this PO sef

Undoubtedly currency speculators aka Dollar hoarders, they held on to their fake dreams that naira was going to hit 2000 to a dollar and they hit ground zero like a heavy bag of cement 😂😂😂, again food hoarders especially rice and beans, infact na their own worse pass.

The plotters of this failed coup were a dumb lot, firstly it was predominantly from an ethnic group and religion which was exactly the same reasons the late Nzeogwu coup failed as did Orkar, again they were native because the entire southern Nigeria or South West in particular would have been enraged and probably would have tried to severe their continued stay in Nigeria by seceeding, well good thing is they all know the consequences of their foolery and knows exactly what's coming their way because they would have butchered many people they earmarked for assassination author=BreakingNews21 post=139310439]Seems our investigative friends at Punch and the world renowned Sahara Reporters both can't locate Oga Timpre Sylva whom may be a very important part of solving this puzzle. Neither can I so let me shut up my mouth. 😆[/quote]

His name in itself is a brand and because he is a renowned individual and public figure a damage to him is a damage to the brand UBA because the two are synonymous

Nwaikpe:
That is exactly how Nigerian businesses spoil their brands.

Because of a reference to your chairman's private life, the group officially issues a statement.

Meaning any clapback will be on the group and its shareholders, not on the chairman.

Orange man is nothing but a drama king who believe that everyone that follows and adore him are morons and foolish, can't wait for the midterm elections in November for the democrats to sweep the polls and kick him out so as to stop the nuisances he is committing not just in his country but worldwide

fwallex4truth:
THE WORST PART OF BEING A TRUMP SUPPORTER... Is being too stupid to realise you have been outsmarted by an idiot

hahaha hehehe hohoho 😂👏 that's super hilarious and funny

Pojomojo:
It’s understandable why former President Olusegun Obasanjo holds such a strong view about Nigeria’s refineries, given his past experience. But saying they will never work again may be too absolute—and perhaps overlooks what is still possible with the right approach.

First, the challenges he listed—poor maintenance, corruption, and outdated capacity—are real. Even Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has admitted the refineries are currently underperforming. However, those problems are not unique to Nigeria, and other countries have successfully revived aging refineries through proper reforms, transparent management, and credible technical partnerships.

Second, the global energy landscape has evolved since Obasanjo’s time in office. While major oil companies like Shell plc may prioritize upstream profits, there are now specialized refinery operators and engineering firms whose business is exactly this—turning around inefficient downstream assets. That’s precisely what NNPC is trying to tap into with its current search for technical partners.

Also, the success of the Nigeria LNG Limited project that Obasanjo referenced actually strengthens the case for reform rather than abandonment. It shows that with the right ownership structure, governance, and private-sector discipline, state-linked energy projects in Nigeria can work.

Then there’s the example of Aliko Dangote’s refinery. While it highlights how efficient private investment can be, it doesn’t necessarily mean public refineries are beyond saving—it simply raises the standard they must meet. Competing may be difficult, but not impossible, especially if the goal is to reduce import dependence and strengthen energy security.

In reality, the question isn’t whether the refineries can ever work again—it’s whether Nigeria is willing to implement the tough structural changes needed to make them work. That includes transparency, accountability, and possibly letting go of full government control.

So rather than writing them off completely, it may be more productive to see this moment as a test: can Nigeria finally fix what has long been broken, or will history repeat itself?

brilliant insights from you bro but experience teaches us that our case in Nigeria is unique because government intervention programs in every facets of our developmental strides have failed woefully without exception, Airways, Seaports, Ajaokuta steel, refineries, Fertilizer companies, just name them, government leprous hands corrupts and destroys whatever it torches, if things succeds easily in other countries replicating same in Nigeria is always hellish

16 billion dollars wasted, Currently if you come to Abuja you will count thousands of super luxurious mansions in estates that are unoccupied for years and you wonder who owns this estates, and they are still building more that above average earners like bankers, doctors can't even afford to rent and are forced to live in suburbs like lugbe and kubwa, so this is how they built those estates with corruptly enriched money

Chelsea has gone five games defeated and without scoring a goal a record that equals same result since 1912😭😭😭😭

bigcasava1:
I thought they said US is raising unnecessary alarm, look at it now, they are raising alarm for the same insecurity. Useless leaders, even as they raise the alert the terrorist will still strike.

Now that we know what do they expect us to do about it 😳😳

There has been tens of nuclear deals struck with Iran severally but Nathanyahu always find away to scuttle all of them thru his lap dog Trump, even the late Khameni issued a fatwa not to develop one, the whole world including Europe have come to the realization that Israel are the real terrorists, if they have nuclear weapons why shouldn't Iran have for mutual deterrence and balance of power BTW