₦airaland Forum

larride:
Mak he go siddon

Wifey is from Ibadan. What struck me those days when I dey frequent Monatan was how bad the power situation was. In a week, dem fit see light only one or two days and she told me the power situation was generally poor in Ibadan.

Now, their Son is Minister of Power. Whether justified or not, Ibadan people expected better power supply because their son is minister but its only gotten worse despite the Band A discrimination tariffs wey hin introduce.

E come be like Baba set am up by appointing him to that Ministry. Wifey follows Ibadan social media and na every week she dey show me videos of Oyo people cursing him for the poor power situation. The Minister of Darkness sobriquet given to Adelabu is apt and well-earned.

And the same man wants to be governor of Oyo state? Hin case go be like that of Dele Momodu who got less votes in his voting centre than the number of his family members when he contested for president years ago.

sleekdot:
Why not

semid4lyfe see wetin your bot swallow and ban me join

The bot, I and well meaning Nigerians are in agreement that Adelabu will never be governor of Oyo state.

Hence the swallowing of your post is justified.

Fake news

opes:
Bros, it is always best to starve trolls. Giving them attention is what they want.

Troll wey I go soon put for cell and toss the key

Kog45:
Sir,there is nothing like fresh, starting world cup qualification matches and losing 4 points to minnows, Peseiro messed up

Peseiro played two matches, amassed 2 points from a possible 6, and dropped 4 points.

Finidi played two matches, amassed 1 point from a possible 6, and dropped 5 points. Also, Finidi recorded the only loss in the WCQ in neutral territory to Benin Republic.

After Peseiro's second WCQ match, we trailed the group leader by 2 points. After Finidi's second WCQ match (and fourth match in the campaign) , we were further behind by 5 points.

Pray tell, who was more injurious to our world cup qualification campaign?

I know you have a bias for local coaches but make we properly situate issues and not push false and hypocritical agendas.

izzou:
Lies Lies Lies

Markets in Lagos only shut down completely on Sundays, and towards the end of the year (Last week of December)

They open everyday, whether Muslim or Christian Holiday, as long as it falls between Mon-Sat

I thought as much. Thank you.

Good morning Mr Izzou.

Pls does Alaba Intl shutdown for Muslim holidays?

I ask cos someone was supposed to do something for me in the market this past Thursday/Friday but didn't do it and the excuse was "Market no open because of the Eid holiday"

I wan know cos it'd aid my decision and I know how to relate with him going forward.....

"You are not getting a worse world cup than South Africa in 2010. That tournament never felt like a world cup" - Wayne Rooney (TheOverlap podcast).

Why e no talk am before now? Is this opinion shaped and influenced by CAF's decision to strip Senegal of the 2025 AFCON and award it to Morocco?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Well, maybe this is the right opportunity for our residents baby Zionist to finally defeat Iran & co. Dem go join conscription if push come to shove. Ndi eriri eri

Trump's threats against Iran to open the Straits of Hormuz won:t work because he does not have escalation dominance.

If he blows up power stations across Iran, Iran will retaliate by targeting Damns and power infrastructure in the gulf countries.

If he blows up Iran oil infrastructure, Iran will retaliate by targeting oil fields, refineries, and export terminals in the gulf. Oil prices go mad overnight.

If he hits other critical infrastructure in Iran, Iran will target the Desalination plants in the gulf countries.

etc etc

He also cannot achieve regime change or install a pliant leader like he did in Venezuela.

At this point, he should just spin the Iran war as a victory, retreat and face the homefront.

WhoDeyHause:
I suppose follow laugh but this shit gat me thinking deeply, cause I can almost relate to this your soup ish. I'm sure most of us here can. To see decent light these days come hard pass rapture. Room go dey hot like hellfire once you wan close eye sleep. If them bring am before you walk 20m to change over everywhere don black.
Omo no be life we dey live so.

Our light here dey very good but since last week of last month, EEDC don dey do us timetable.

🔸5am - 10am, No Light ❌

🔸10am - 4pm , Light go dey ✔️. Dem fit take am once or twice within this period but e no dey tey, and dem go bring am back within 30 minutes.

🔸4pm - 12.30am, No light ❌

12.30am - 5am, Light go dey ✔️

Na the pattern wey I observe be this. I guess I have it good compared to others.

DissTroy:
Asa. It was Asa.

I can name alté artistes at the time in the 2000s who were more household names than Black Magic:

- Rooftop MCs.
- GT da Guitarman (of Storm Records).

- Bez Idakula came next. "Zuci daya" was a radio hit for lovelórn night listeners. His "Super Sun" album cemented that in 2011.

Memories. Asa WAS a great one.

Her first album "Asa" is the best debut album ever and the most unskippable album released by a Nigerian artiste i.m.o

That album was a masterpiece and once you slot the CD, you're hooked by her soothing vocals and will listen from track one to the last.

Songs like Eye adaba, bibanke, fire on the mountain, 360 degrees, awe, Iba, subway, no one knows etc were on that album, and I dare say the least song from that album was better than the best song from all her other albums.

Another noteworthy unskippable debut album is 2face Idibia's Face 2 Face. Nfana ibaga, African queen, Ole. You no holy pass, keep on rocking were on that CD. That album also has my favourite 2face song of all time, Thank you Lord.

Still, I rate Asa's debut album slightly better cos of the songwriting and also for its alte sound.

izzou:
Yes oh

Damn. May his soul rest in peace.

izzou:
Goodnight, Chuck Norris

Hin don kpai abi wetin?

Make I cause small chaos.

If rap finesse is being defined as ease/effortlessness, suavity, swag, smoothness of flow, then the Nigerian rapoer with the most finesse is not even a rapper but an R & B artiste. Yeah. you heard me right.

That Person is Bankole Wellington aka Bank W.

It was his feature in DJ Jimmy Jatt's E to beh that also had Phyno.

Take a listen. especially, his second verse from the 3.00 minute mark.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcwOar3nuWI&pp=ygUfRGogTmVwdHVuZSBmdCBQaHlubyBhbmQgQmFua3kgV9IHCQnFCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

Banky's verses were very braggadocios But no Nigerian rapper has ever been able to surpass the finesse - smooth flow, suavity, poshness that Banky exhibited in that song.

Throwback Thursday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MsneAXhAc&pp=ygUSYmxhY2sgbWFnaWMgcmVwZXRl0gcJCcUKAYcqIYzv

Black Magic - Repete

An Afrobeats masterpiece.

A timeless classic. Mad jam back in the days and even today, song is still a vibe.

The trumpet sound that runs through the song is orgasmic, and the way his silky smooth vocals was layered over the beat was heavenly.

SoundCity, Nigezie and Trace Naija no let the song rest that circa 2013, and played it like every hour.

Its sacrilegious that the song didn't make the Billboard 50 best afrobeats songs of all time list.

https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-afrobeats-songs/50-weird-mc-ijoya/

It'd easily displace some of the songs on that list imo.

BM dropped one good album and fell off.

The way artistes fall off after one or two hit songs will make you appreciate and respect peeps Olamide, Wizkid, Burna, Davido, Flavour, Phyno, Kizz Daniel and others who have been doing it consistently and remained relevant for over a decade cos many fell off and couldn't sustain their success.

DissTroy, you have a weird taste in music. Do you consider Black Magic's repete a good song?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
If no be low IQ, tell me why Nigerian Christians go dey see Iran as their enemy just because religion.
The English king literally told us that there's no Christian genocide or persecution in Nigeria. Tufia. Na the same Britain/European carry Christianity come Nigeria. I wish the king can go to Plateu, Benue or Kaduna & tell them in person.


https://www.gbnews.com/royal/king-charles-muslim-ramadan-sacrifice-state-banquet-speech

Genuine question. No agenda. I just wan know.

Why UK dey fete PBAT?

mekabuachi:
Nff petition rejected because it wasn't filed properly...

Based on technicality (failure to file within the stipulated time period), not on the merit or lack of merit of the petition.

FIFA dey do like Nigerian judiciary. So disappointing.

So what was FIFA investigating all this while when the petition could have been dismissed the same week it was filed?

Never thought it'd go our way but the more I think about it, the more it seems like a political ruling motivated by a desire not to upset the apple cart.

NFF should just move on.

DissTroy:
Why? The cost of PMS hasn't increased in Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia or Qatar which are being hit and are oil-producing countries like us.

Nigeria is thousands of miles away, produces its own petroleum and gave some sort of monopoly to one man as the largest refinery in the world, which the current administration likes to brag is due to its favour business policy and celebrated with pomp and fanfare.

Netanyahu, Trump and our very own Okpatollah aren't the reason this country doesn't have other functional refineries or the functional one we have which gets crude from local sources ramped up petroleum products cost arbitrarily.

The Iran War isn't the reason Nigeria's FCCPC and other price regulatory bodies spiked prices.

The missiles flying in the Middle East isn't the reason why if you drive down the road in your area this evening, you'll find 7 different fueling stations selling petrol at different prices and state government price control boards aren't enforcing anything because most of the fueling stations are owned by those in the corridors of power.

Is the Iran War the reason the woman on your street corner selling at the fruit mart pegging mangoes and oranges for double the prices she sold just one month ago?

Baba, you are normally spot on with your analysis but on this one.your brain don waka go sabbatical.

Crude is an internationally priced commodity and the global oil market sets the price. And since the Iran war began, the prize of crude has jumped from $60 per barrel to over $100 per barrel.

Shipping routes have been disrupted. Supply don diminish and crude no surplus like before. Freight and insurance of vessels sef add money. So the price don go up everywhere.

America produces over 20 million barrels of crude oil per day and even refines locally, yet even them don increase their pump price since the Iran war began.

Americans are all over social media complaining about the cost of fuel and the other day we saw Korra Obidi post a video complaining about buying fuel more expensive due to the Iran war.

It's also the reason Donald Trump has being para-ing, daring and threatening Iran not to close the Hormuz Strait. Because 20% of the world supply passes through that route, and if that route is disrupted, iit would exacerbate the situation in America which would affect him politically too.

Another point. The price of refined fuel always mirrors that of crude. If crude goes up, PMS, diesel, aviation fuel and all other derivatives sef go get erection.

Nigeria case get k-leg. Dangote is the only local player and the FG only supplies about 30% of his crude requirement. Even at that, Dangote pays in Naira at the international benchmarked crude price, and this has increased from $60 before the war to over $100 now. So naturally, the price of Dangote fuel go increase.

The other importers and independent marketers sef no get choice but to increase their prices because no be wetin dem dey buy PMS before, dem still dey buy am.

Now, Nigeria is a fuel-dependent country and fuel is the lifeline of our economy. So when fuel goes up, every other thing go follow....transport. commodities, farm produce, groceries and FMCGs, cost of doing business, services, everything.

It was inevitable that the local fuel price will increase with the Iran war. The only way it wouldn't have was if govt paid subsidy.

I rest my fingers.

I do not understand how any Nigerian go dey gloat and post the war with glee when the same war is making life more difficult and draining our pockets. I mean, there is absolutely nothing to gloat about in this Israel/America-Iran war.

Israelis don kpai. Americans don kpai. Iranians don kpai. Many on both sides dey wounded. Even the gulf countries wey no dey directly involved don lose people.

Properties have been bombed and left in ruins. Schools and whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble. Investments have been wiped out overnight. Businesses shut down. Airports closed. Oil facilities hit

Families have lost fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children. Some of the people killed no even get anything to do with the fighting.

Even for Nigeria, things don red and we dey feel am. Fuel don enter 1500. Transportation don go up. Bolt and Uber fares don jump. Interstate transport companies don adjust prices. If they haven't already, airlines sef go do upward review of ticket prices.

Cooking gas don enter 1200/kg for my side. Kilo of beef, 8000. Goat meat, 9000. It used to be 6500 and 7500 before. Bukas and small restaurants go adjust their prices and portions too.

Commodities and FMCGs dey add money like garri wey soak for water. Rice, bread, noodles, vegetable oil. Everything dey creep up small small.

This war is in the middle east but the shockwaves dey reverberate all the way in Nigeria. and it's draining pockets.

I do not care for Trump, Netanyahu or Ayatollah. My own be say make the war end so things fit return to normal.

DissTroy, food is ready

🔸Fuel - N1450, formerly N900
🔸Cooking gas - N1200, formerly N1050
🔸Commuting to and from work - N4000, formerly N3000
🔸Bag of Pure water - N450, formerly N400
🔸Carton of Golden Penny Spaghetti - N23000, formerly N21000
🔸Carton of Happy Hour - N3500, formerly N3300
🔸Carton of Malto biscuit - N3500, formerly N3300

etc

Prices of these commodities changed just between last week and this week when the Israel-USA vs Iran ish broke out.

Semid4lyfe is battling existential issues and very upset at Bibi and Trumpf for starting this war.

Make una no dey call me for trivialities on NL.

T for tanks.

GloriousGbola:
It is not as if mehdi is an unknown quantity or as if mehdi is not a known hostile interviewer.

This speaks to the mental laziness of people appointed to government roles. Bwala is simply unprepared to be a media aide. It is as simple as that. It is a role where you should be mentally quick on your feet, able to parry and deflect and counter interviewers

The guy is just an unfit person in a role dashed to him as jobs for the boys. Even renowanker would likely have done a better job.

I wonder what will happen next.

izzou:
Na people like you dey make these people mediocre day by day

Even Tuggar that was grilled was not bad.

Daniel didn't have any rebuttal for most of what he was asked by Mehdi. At some point, he said Amnesty doesn't say anything good. Just beer parlor defense tactics

This is a Media and Publicity figure for a country. I can tolerate Seyi being roasted, but someone who cannot even do his job well is something else.

Sotey, audience begin laugh.

Credit ko, Debit ni

Reno would have been worse.

Tuggar was cooked terribly by Piers Morgan and that Canadian lady on Piers Morgan Uncensored so tey he became belligerent and started shouting .

Bayo Onanuga, Ajuri Ngelale would have been a mismatch. They speak in hesitant, halting manner using lots of fillers. Ditto for Lai Mohammed and Garba Shehu of PMB govt. Also, these peeps wouldn't have been able to cope with the fast-paced rapid question style of Mehdi.

Like G.Gbola said, Mehdi is a known hostile interviewer and the whole idea of the show is to put guests under pressure with uncomfortable questions.

Make una no dey underestimate how difficult this kinda interview setting is. You sit across someone whose job is to grill you, interrupt, twist your words, and keep pushing until you slip. The audience of the show already leans skeptical, so you are in unfriendly territory in the first place.

Most Nigerian government spokesmen are used to local press briefings where journalists allow long answers and soft landings. That setting differs from a rapid-fire studio interview like Head to Head where Mehdi controls the pace and keeps cutting you off.

So judging DB's outing as if the goal was to win the interviewer no be am. The goal is simple. Hold your ground, avoid major blunders, and launder and pass across your government's talking points to an international audience.

The only place Daniel Bwala struggled was his past statements on Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Mehdi kept going back to those old utterances. That angle boxed him in because he had to spend time explaining the turnaround instead of focusing fully on defending government policy.

Apart from that, he stayed in the seat, kept a friendly genial disposition, answered most of the questions, deflected and parried a few, disputed some figures and data, fired a few salvos at Mehdi and did not melt down under pressure. On a program like Head to Head, that already counts for something.

I rest my fingers.

Segedinho:
Baba na another interview you watch o

Or maybe brext dey ur mouth as u dey watch

Daniel Bwala wasn't flustered or agitated at any point in the interview.
He was calm, composed, genial and conceded a few points.

He even launched some offensive salvos using Keir Starmer and Donald Trump to draw comparison and push back at Mehdi Hassan.

He emphasized that context matters for a lot of the things he said in the past.

He disputed some data and figures that Mehdi Hassan was reeling out.

I could go on and on.

Again, considering how difficult it is to defend PBAT , I think Daniel Bwala did okay.

PDPGuy:
He’s one of the best that Emilokan has to offer 🙆🏽‍♂️

Mehdi Hassan is a brutal interviewer. There's no guest he hasn't cooked on this Head to Head programme.

He's also a great debater. Intelligent, fast thinker and quick-witted.

Just finished watching the entire interview, and considering his extremely difficult task of defending this PBAT administration, his past criticism of PBAT and juxtaposing it with the performance of other guests on the show, I'll say Daniel Bwala did okay.

Papi85:
Oma wey dem talk say em dey scam young players for 9ja say em go get dem clubs abroad

Oma did not scout the player, and YES Oma scams players with promises of taking them to Europe and getting them signed. Evidence abound from C mobike.

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BascoVanVeli:
Cameroon 1-3 Nigeria ft
Good performance by the ladies.

BascoVanVeli:
Match highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vVP9i9qZ8?si=7wLwwZd3E_IhD6Vp

Nice commentary.

E get wetin you talk.....something about pinpoint or on point, cant recall exactly but it was nice and I chuckled when I heard it.

AndSunGorilla:
That pitch no good and what state of the art stadium? I support you on Madugu but that stadium one, baba, dat one no enter. It's better than the secondary school field they used in Cameroon.

Baba, na the same thing we dey talk but you missed my sarcasm

BascoVanVeli:
Cameroon 1-3 Nigeria ft
Good performance by the ladies.

Yeah, good one. Well done to the team.

The evil agendists will ignore this one because it doesnt suit their anti-Madugu agenda.

Cameroon can host AFCON but Nigeria cannot host it una.

See state of the art stadium and that pristine pitch.

Talk about scoring a goal, and the commentator says "that is a brilliant goal by Iwobi, worthy of his uncle, the great JayJay Okocha"

Alex Iwobi fit use Okocha name cash cheque for bank.