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When Buhari came, they said it was BVN. Now it is Tax ID. What a country. Since Soludo-Sanusi left, we have been doing everything to make sure banking is more difficult for Nigerians. We have too many IDs and instead of the government to close the loopholes, they are denying us service after contract. Why didn't you ask this information before I opened my account? Why now? The other time FIRS denied this and it's CBN that regulates banks, so what authority is this under?

Just kick it off in 2026, you'll see whatever you get.

DarkJeddi:
Lies.
Everything is rooted in Islam.
Just because you don't practice it doesn't it's not religious.

Honor killing is cultural. I studied this topic 20 years ago. You can use AI to ask, use the internet. It's not that difficult.

Honor killing is not Islamic.
It is cultural.

Here’s the clear breakdown:


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✅ 1. Islam does not permit honor killings

In Islamic law:

Killing someone without legal due process is strictly forbidden.

The Qur’an states that killing an innocent person is like “killing all of humanity.”

Personal revenge, including “honor-based” violence, has no religious basis.


Adultery or moral misconduct cannot be punished by individuals.
Only a legitimate court with strict evidence standards can judge such cases — and these standards are so strict that vigilantism is impossible to justify.

Scholars across the Muslim world unanimously reject honor killings as un-Islamic.


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✅ 2. Honor killings are a pre-Islamic tribal cultural practice

Honor-based violence exists in:

Middle Eastern non-Muslim communities

South Asian Hindu/Sikh communities

Some Christian groups in the Mediterranean

Tribal and clan-based societies worldwide


This shows it is not tied to any one religion, but rather to patriarchal cultural norms, especially in rural or tribal societies where:

Family reputation > individual rights

Women are controlled through social pressure

Community honor is enforced through violence


These norms existed long before Islam and continue in some areas despite Islamic teachings, not

What a load of bull. What do we have security for and who has the guts to disobey the President? Is he not jagaban again? 💪😏

thesicilian:
Early 90s claiming senior man on top Gen Z When the age difference between you guys may not even be up to 3 years!

1993 when the election was held and today is 32 years. That's no small feat. We've been using that to tell Atiku to calm down. Except you are a late Gen X or early Millennial, then you are here with your grandkids.

@ Topic, what I see is that there has been a collapse of parenting and this is the result we are seeing. Who are their parents? They true to embrace gentle parenting, it's the gentlemen and women you are now seeing today.

BondRiv:
Are we not in the era of equality anymore? You want preferential treatment or equality? Confused people.

Women don't want true "equality." They want selective equality when it serves them. They don't like to be held accountable as well.

They don't need men to give them space. Their numbers alone should make men scared but we know why women don't get elected. Because of women

I hope you know diplomats are not attention seekers. Also know that he now represents EVERY NIGERIAN, if he passes Senate screening. So you can't attack your own citizens as an ambassador. Ambassadors are usually cunning and very tactful but they are not aggressive, they are careful with their choice of words.

PDP is just waking up to their responsibilities as opposition. The government is just disgraceful and shameless. Renewed Hope is just a hopeless mantra. The list does not inspire hope. No be today we de see non-career ambassadors but just the way the government could send people to UK to release Ekweremadu, or they could add Sanda and other criminals to their pardon list and so many other examples, this government has shown again and again that it puts politics above governance and party above country.

It took Trump to call us to order, otherwise this APC people would have kept on justifying the fact that we didn't have ambassadors. Very unserious people in power.
Not everyone who campaigns for elections can make effective operators of the polity. There is politics, there is governance.

FFK should be posted to the State of Israel. Since Shettima castigated Israel at the UN for the genocide in Gaza, that's when the Christian genocide response from Trump came out. FFK is strong about his position and he has good knowledge of Israel. Attack is the best form of defence, then let Reno score own goal in the US. 🤡

What this list shows us is that only the political elites deserve Nigeria. It does not inspire, it does not bring hope. It's same of the same. Ńo Hope Renewed.

CyynthiaKiss:
Here in SW, some of them seem to be liberal because they are minority in the south, despite being in minority here, just look at some of their actions offline and their opinions online.. Imagine what they would do if they are dominating here in southern Nigeria .. Thank God SE and SS are here to checkmate them..

Trust these people at your own peril

Be deceiving yourself. People can be monsters, they just need numbers en masse. Someone felt surprised when I reminded him of the Plateau crisis. Obasanjo sacked him for taking sides and Tinubu as Governor back then challenged the emergency declaration. The same Tinubu cannot take decisive actions. I remember people chiding Obasanjo for his intervention, saying he was afraid of the North, instead of seeing human lives first and stopping nonsense in office by leaders in the state.

Over time in Nigeria, people have always paid themselves. If it's not ethnic tension, it's religious. Aren't there people dying in all zones of the country right now and it's not religious or who did IPOB for instance take away? Who took Zakzaky's people away? Who fought Ife and Modakeke? Let them keep using things to divide you while the politicians unite at the top regardless of those things they divide you with.

reddingtonblack:
That phrase is wrong, by definition of unpopular ... Most of the people at the elms of affair have being around power for over 20yrs therefore they are " popular"

infact if you are said " old people" dont want to leave e for correct ... Atiku and Tinubu are popular do they want to give way for fresh people i.e the unpopular, the answer is No

I dont think election is test of Popularity Becos at the end of the day " acceptances is what count., Buhari vs Atiku both are equally popular but acceptance is what makes one a winner .. sey you grab

like i said my issh with you is choice of wrong, " unpopular" ... i share same mindset with you on other things you wrote

Fair enough but I don't want to overflog the issue. In the Guinea Bissau coup, the President saw he was losing, thus not as popular as he thought and he called in the military.

I don't think my statement is mischievous. I think you are reading another meaning to it. Is Tinubu a popular president (elect)? No
Did he win the election? Yes, according to INEC
Is he the president today? Yes.

I don't want to go too much into the details but I stand by my words. He wasn't a popular president. I asked AI to help write, so opinion is not mine and it doesn't mean the statements below are fullproof but they provide a good context

Good question. It depends how you define “popular.” Here’s how Bola Tinubu (according to Independent National Electoral Commission — INEC) fares by objective results — and why many analysts argue that doesn’t necessarily mean “popular.”

✅ What the INEC results show

In the 2023 presidential election, Tinubu was declared winner with ≈ 8.79 million votes.

That was 36.6 % of valid votes cast.

He also met the constitutional requirement of obtaining 25% in at least two-thirds of the states — making his victory legally valid under Nigeria’s rules.


So by the letter of the law and the official results, yes — he won and became president.

⚠️ Why “winning” doesn’t necessarily equal “popular support”

His 36.6% vote share is the lowest for a winning presidential candidate since Nigeria’s return to democracy in 1999.

That means a majority of voters (≈ 63 %) voted for other candidates — so more Nigerians preferred someone else.

Some analysts say that because only a relatively small proportion of eligible voters actually cast ballots — and only about a third of those voted for him — the mandate could be considered weak.

Also: the election was widely described as contested, with reports of irregularities, voter-intimidation, and lack of transparency (e.g. delays in uploading polling unit results).


🧮 What “popularity” might really mean

Whether Tinubu is “popular” overall depends on what benchmark you use:

If “popular” = “legally elected as per rules,” yes.

If “popular” = “enjoys broad support among Nigerians,” the data suggests that’s not clearly the case — more people voted against him than for him, and his vote share was historically low.

Also, regional, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic divides matter: vote patterns show that support was not uniform nationwide, which complicates claims of a unified “popular” mandate.



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Bottom line: According to INEC, Tinubu is the duly elected president. But by the measure of strong popular endorsement — broad, majority-wide support — the 2023 results don’t provide compelling evidence that he’s very popular.

If you like — I can check recent polls or approval-rating data (2024–2025) to see how public perception has changed since the election. Want me to fetch that now?

Here is the stats of the declared winners since 1999. Mr Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not a popular president elect

Here is the brief, factual list of Nigeria’s presidential election winners since 1999, including each winner’s name and the percentage of valid votes they received.

1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo: about 62.78% of valid votes.

2003 – Olusegun Obasanjo: about 61.94% of valid votes.

2007 – Umaru Musa Yar’Adua: about 69.60% of valid votes.

2011 – Goodluck Jonathan: about 58.87% of valid votes.

2015 – Muhammadu Buhari: about 53.96% of valid votes.

2019 – Muhammadu Buhari: about 55.60% of valid votes.

2023 – Bola Ahmed Tinubu: about 36.6–37% of valid votes.

Tjra:
Leave the people of Lagos alone and let us focus on development of Alaigbo.

That should be our primary concern.

You and the people of Alaigbo ni ki ẹ lọ yanju ọrọ yin ni ilu yin. Èkó ò ní bà jẹ́

Nọgidenụ na-aghọgbu onwe gị.

Na gode

Atiku is better off nominating or supporting the candidate of Obi who will emerge from the North. I think Buhari's victory and Tinubu's running away with it has given him hope that he can still do it. Never say never but if he reads the mood of the country, we are tired of the recycled names. He is better off endorsing someone. The same thing Tinubu could/should have done instead of running. Politics is one thing, governance is another.

attackgat:
The annual Ojukwu Memorial lecture held on Friday was graced by former Biafran Soldiers who came to pay their respects to their late commander in Chief, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu

These are men who fought the three year battle against Nigerian forces. All the men are now retired and are in their 70's or 80's.

Your reporting is poor.

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Don't take this as criticism, modify the post to improve the content if you can 👍


Ojukwu urged Nigerians to get Shehu Shagari into the government house on 1st of October 1983. History is very funny. Permanent interests is what you follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZXfpnWpoE

I think many people forget that Tinubu is the most recent President to win by less than half of the votes in the election, thereby making him an unpopular president. I wrote this on another thread and the person thought I was hating on him for calling him unpopular. Buhari won his second term with >50% of all votes. APC was not a popular party and Tinubu does not seem to be making any decisions that will make them look any better, even if you see governors moving for survival there. The 2023 elections has shown how little influence governors have in the process.

I would have thought with the little percentage he had, Tinubu would do things to bring the people to his side but you can't teach an old leopard new running steps. Given a free and fair election, APC is an unpopular party and can be easily beaten. What has made it worse for them is that karma has come 360 degrees full circle so there's no PDP to blame. The things they accused PDP of is also happening to them and they are making an 'incompetent' Jonathan look like a Saint to the extent that people have forgotten how 'weak' GEJ's government was and are willing to consider that government as against APC's. The difference is now clearer than ever that APC was only interested in power and nothing more.

As at 2007, Nigerians started getting tired of PDP, we gave it 4 more years and the seat was hot. APC is now in similar shoes. It's been 11 years. See finish Don open eyes.

reddingtonblack:
Oga my issue is with you is the phrase " unpopular" its a wrong choice of word in your context of pursuit

people dont know me is different from people not wanting me or like me

who cares if you are thief or not

I wrote👇
The problem with democracy in Africa is that the unpopular people are unwilling to accept that they are not the people's choice so they will scatter it for everyone if they don't have their way.

What in my statement is wrong? In democracy, if Candidate A beats Candidate B by 1 vote, A is the popular vote. The margin and percentage are statistics but democracy is described as the government of the people, by the people and that's why the majority carries the day. That's why there is also a run-off in our elections.

In the New York Mayoral vote, Cuomo is/was more popular than any other candidate but did he win? No. Even Trump's threat and support did not garner him enough votes. The young man, Mamdani won and everyone accepted it. The test of popularity was at the polls and today, he has finally met Trump despite all their tantrums. Trump did not go and cancel the election or cry rigging. Our own politicians don't like to lose. That's their problem with the electoral votes.

You talked about Jonathan. Don't forget that before the results were announced, we had a saga at the collation center where some people did not want to accept the results but what did the President at the time do? He called to accept defeat even before final collation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm6-COC4S90

Election is not do or die like Obasanjo foisted on us and gracefully, Yar Adua the beneficiary accepted even though he benefited from the rigging. It's his (Yar Adua) reforms we are enjoying today.

PapalsBull:
When a religion that suppress women meet with culture that do same thing. A match made in heaven.

You think so? Look at Tanzania, the President is a Muslim Woman. And you know what happened in the recent election

This same people may not let the woman marry a Muslim man from Kaduna while an Egyptian may be okay with a Ned Nwoko marriage. This life, you just have to see things from a deep perspective, it's very convenient to hide under groups.

Listen to understand instead of rushing to give your response.

frankoben:
I guess they practice their own Islam with delusion, I have countless Muslim friends and they would never conceive such horrific thoughts.

It's largely cultural

SisterAnn:
Hehehe 😄

What a shame if you ask me.

Tinubu never meant well for Nigeria.

The nomination of a character like Reno to represent his government outside Nigeria not even his confirmation proves that.

Someone up there said oluremi Tinubu could be the brain behind this, if that be so, I dare ask, what's Reno blackmailing her with?

Oluremi has her sister on the list.

It's not an embarrassment to Tinubu but to Nigeria. We play too much politics in this country so we don't know when to stop and preserve our image.

reddingtonblack:
I guess you are IGBo and in your desperate attempt to force a Narrative you used the word " unpopular people"

who as become Nig. president that is not popular ... is It OBJ, Yaradua, Buhari or Tinubu

i skipped Jonathan purposely, becos thats the one president that fit into " unpopular" compared to other names

If you like guess I am Tiv, I don't engage in such low intellectual discrimination and discussions. It's on record that Mr Tinubu is the most unpopular president to win the elections going by the INEC result. You can argue with facts or statistics.

As uninspiring as he was, Muhammadu Buhari won a second term in Nigeria's Presidency with 56% of the popular vote in the presidential election. Keep on talking tribes and petty politics. "Na statistics we go chop?"

Cromagnon:
why don't you get there and do it your way
Why are you enjoying soft life and want someone else to do all the first work for you?

Your questions are defective and deflective. He is the President, stop distracting us.

Memphitz357:
99% of Tinubu's Ambassadorial Nominees are either corrupt or Terrorist sympathizers!

The government is just disgraceful and shameless. Renewed Hope is just a hopeless mantra. The list does not inspire hope. No be today we de see non-career ambassadors but just the way the government could send people to UK to release Ekweremadu, or they could add Sanda and other criminals to their pardon list and so many other examples, this government has shown again and again that it puts politics above governance and party above country.

It took Trump to call us to order, otherwise this APC people would have kept on justifying the fact that we didn't have ambassadors. Very unserious people in power.

You go explain Taya.

When they are representing Nigeria, they are called Ambassadors. No one prefixes their career or non-career. It is Nigeria that matters. These APC goons always think they can explain away their inefficiencies. The country is bigger than politics. Not everyone who campaigns for elections can make effective operators of the polity. There is politics, there is governance.

You put someone who doesn't have diplomatic trait as ambassador and will bring more controversy to your country and you're telling us career or non-career. The joke is not on your political opponents, the joke is on EVERY NIGERIAN because these people represent us.

Kobojunkie:
If Vilar's arguments are to be held up as factual—

The idea that men must avoid women or become gay to escape manipulation is a deeply flawed inference. Pathology isn’t inherent in ‘women’ or ‘men’; it emerges in individuals and in poorly negotiated relationships.
What actually protects people from exploitation is the development of competence: clear boundaries, articulated values, and the willingness to walk away from situations that violate them.

If a man can’t stand up for himself, changing the gender of the person he dates won’t fix that. He’ll recreate the same dynamic elsewhere.

Strength isn’t found in avoidance; it’s found in taking responsibility for your part in the pattern, and correcting that first.

Men know the importance of women, so it's only a weak man who would bend over his kness for another man to pump his semen in his butt. That doesn't create any legacy, it destroys society. It doesn't continue evolution.

Men won't run to other men to escape delusional women. What they will do is LEAD. They will take responsibility.
Women don't want true "equality." They want selective equality when it serves them. They don't like to be held accountable as well.

But I am not here to argue with you. I know where you stand and the suggestion of generalization or alt sex is as ridiculous as no man will propose.

BondRiv:
Cronyism. Not impressed by the names I have heard so far.

Man loves politics than governance. It will be his greatest undoing.

Those who campaign for you are not the best for governance. Politics is the game, governance is the console.

matify83:
They Looks like new immigrants savouring their new country and first rainfall, thanking God for the exodus from probably a "disgraced country of particular concern"

Like these ones?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExxVOV7NhEM

almarthins:
If Nigerians like make dem fall again into the web of apc's. As for me, never again.

I don't think they did and the glaring disregard of the politicians migrating to APC is not even going to make them more popular, it will put people against them. Anyway, it's quite obvious to know those who grabbed it, snatched it and ran away with it but are afraid of the people's will in an open and fair election. They still want to use force. What are they afraid of? The wicked know no rest. We've also seen how judiciary was used to win elections, not the people. I'm happy they got to power, if we never saw them this way, we would have thought they were the best thing we never had!

matify83:
As a member of West Africa Elders Forum, it behoves on him to debrief his president on the ill-fated mission to G/Bissau.

No bad blood

He went there on an official mission. Moreover, if you listened to Jonathan's interviews, he talked about it. Obasanjo also went for these missions. Somehow, I don't know if Buhari was invited to observe any elections after he left.

almarthins:
The hatred game that tinubu played against GEJ. If Jonathan really wants to play back, most of you making noise all about online would tag him " bitter, obidient"

Any one who refuse to bow to apc's lies is systematically labelled by sycophants "obidient"

They are deceitful characters but part of the propaganda machine. Anyone who's read 1984 will understand.

It's amazing that all they accused PDP of is now happening to them but they don't want anyone to ask questions. They want us to keep quiet.

The problem with democracy in Africa is that the unpopular people are unwilling to accept that they are not the people's choice so they will scatter it for everyone if they don't have their way. Aren't they threatening us already in Lagos that it's APC or we harm you? Aren't they popular as they claim? Why are they afraid of elections? Because the truth is bitter.

Look at what happened in Rivers state.

Look at how someone said we should GRAB IT, SNATCH IT AND RUNAWAY WITH IT.

Democracy is the voice of the people but the voice of the Satan is what these people want, not the voice of God.
Politicians are also evil because even the military also need their help, the only difference is that military no de forgive. They want you to follow their own rules. Apes obey!!