₦airaland Forum

edogu:
I hope they don't intend to ask us to do a fresh registration.

You have forgotten the problem they gave us when Pantami said your NIN slip was more important than the National ID card. They are not interested in the information unfortunately. They even threatened to punish us


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSj3w2mhNsM?si=TNTnVzL7jx4Sy0dg

Do you remember this story?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXgDqJeJ408

jaephoenix:
I am a physician. This person is simply talking rubbish. Dark skin is a problem with cannulations and venepunctures

Tell us more about it. What shade of dark skin? Do we get to hear this from countries with more dark-skinned population?

This guy here says this is dark skin but it comes nothing to what we will call that. Average Nigerians will call him oyinbo but there is still a difficult finding his vein👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3PQwn6tX5Q

What do those who work with Red Cross or international organizations do when they come across different body types?

otipoju:
This family and their obsession with food.

Agbado and Akara


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWke3inaep0


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7560876805117218066

They want to make you slaves in your own country. They know what they are doing. Making you hungry was a dependency strategy.

Basic123:
Even the taste of music.

How did Nigerian youth from loving styl plus,2 face that would sit down and pen down reasonable lyrics to idolizing OZEBA OZEBA OZEBA

What's ozeba please

Basic123:
This thread will attract more Engagement than the thread on State Policing.

That is OLODO UPRISING.

Engage an average Nigeria youth on the concept of separation of power viz a viz the new electricity act and state police bill act and experience a perfect example of Olodo uprising.

Introduce a topic on VDM and Blessing CEO and observe his ethusiasm and interest.

Maybe because in politics we say the same thing over and over again and nothing changes...

maddman:
You wey go school, wetin you use your money do? How many cars you get? Anytime they want to trend, they chase clout.

@the bolded, when an unlettered fool is talking it's always very glaring.

Portable is a very good example of what Ycee talked about

I think many of us have forgotten the "who e epp" era. This olodo thing is making me remember my post of last week. Shorts has not helped us in anyway, it has reduced elasticity of the brain to microwave

No need to mention Fela. Even Sonny Okosun sang songs that were meaningful

Wind of change (1990), African Soldier (1991) and one like that he sang to bring different religions and tribe together. I forget the title now



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-0MJ0h02tA



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn6FJuKprZY

👆 Listen to these Sonny Okosun songs and tell me if he is still not speaking to government today

What I can now say is that the 90s had more inspirational and influential songs, the artistes cared more about the society so they used their lyrics and songs to change the society. Though this started from late 70s, the 2000s were more conscious of themselves and material things so songs started losing meaning from that era. Your oppressors in government are today dancing with you to nonsensical music that has no message and no reminders. Dem no born them well back then to dance to the songs that reminded them of what they have not done. 90s was the end of it IMO. Children today don't even have any inspirational child friendly songs, they now shake their yansh from age 4 embarassed

Late 2000s that was influential. It was the period of Plantashun Boiz but our artistes were mimicking the US artistes. Only KUSH's song had meaning here because I think they released after the riot in Jos or Kaduna, I can't really remember but it was a riot in Northern Nigeria. Anyone who remembers can correct me

BATified2023:
u people just argue ignorantly with no meaning

Grants and loans are for specific purpose n not everyone because we are financially different.


So was it obi children that he gave 10k to do business?

If obi knows 10k is enough to do business y don't your obi give that 10k to his children?

U people are not objective with your criticism n that's y nobody takes u serious, some people see 50k like 50 million

They can do things with it

My father bought a bike for one guy in our area when bike was 750k, over 10 years ago.

Today the man have moved to his own house, so y didn't d man ask my father to give us the bike?

It's simply because financially we are above that level but someone see it as luxury, till today the man's family still come n do Christmas in our house cos they see my father as big daddy just because of buying bike of 750k

The problem with u people is that u only focus on what u want to see n not what is real

Your example is about creating wealth, Remi Tinubu's example is about managing poverty. Those are not the same thing. The issue was never that akara is beneath anyone, it's that a government with trillions in resources speaks to citizens with the mindset of survival instead of prosperity.
Your father wasn't in government, he used his personal money to help one man. Remi Tinubu was a senator for years and is now First Lady. People expect someone who has held public office to talk about creating opportunities through policy, not reducing national aspiration to frying Akara. A former senator and First Lady is expected to solve millions of people's problems with governance, not normalize survival as economic policy. And I won't pretend that many of your politicians do indirect vote buying like Osinbajo did during reelection. Where's that program today? Those things are short term band aids, you can't quote them 10 years later and we know why.

madridguy:
They're not forcing anyone to take the initiative. I just want you to know that not everyone will have the type of opportunities the children of APC will get.

Reality is different from online fams. If the FG starts a program of sharing 20K today, millions of Nigerians will lobby for it but the children of the APC chieftains will never come for it because 20k will never be their problem.

Have you seen any children of US presidents, senators or their big politicians queued for food at their food bank?

I just want you to know that not everyone will have the type of opportunities the children of APC will get.

Do you know the import of this sentence?
The APC Constitution Preamble explicitly defines the party as an organization of "true progressives and patriots". It states a foundational commitment to:

1. Building a nation that will "guarantee equal opportunity for all".

2. "Eliminating all forms of discrimination and social injustice among Nigerians".

When the children of top party officials enjoy exclusive access to foreign education, premium medical care, and secure government appointments while over 20 million ordinary children are out of school, the party is operating in direct contradiction to its own founding philosophy of equal opportunity. Humour me before we buy the ticket to the US.

madridguy:
They will always criticize but people with open mind will get the first lady's point.

Sir, if this advice is so excellent, let the government launch an empowerment scheme where the children of APC chieftains take the lead in frying Akara on the streets. If it isn't good enough for your children, do not get angry when other people's children reject it. True leadership leads by example. Until we see the children of APC chieftains roasting corn on the streets of Abuja after graduating from UK universities, nobody should preach petty trade to other people's children.


Why did they start with cars for the women leaders last week? 🤡

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7647286952948944136


If this advice is so filled with wisdom, why are politicians' children being appointed into secure NNPC and CBN roles while everyone else's children are being handed a frying pan? If frying Akara is such a lucrative blueprint for economic recovery, let's see the government allocate the next round of CBN grants to the children of the poor to set up roadside akara stands.

In 2011, Mrs Tinubu sponsored the National Social Security Agency Bill to build institutional government safety nets and provide formal monthly stipends for unemployed graduates. In 2026, instead of advocating for systemic social security or institutional economic safety nets from the government, she is telling citizens to rely on roadside survivalist trading to get by.

There is the informal sector, there is the formal sector. Mrs Tinubu is being clever by half by suggesting this to people and don't give us that manure of the wisdom behind words. What you can't do with your own child, don't do it to others. For a former Senator not to know that there are specific institutions to do what she is talking about, I now forgive Aisha Buhari who channeled her frustration to the right quarters. Madam, there are budget allocations for these things. It means you are not on top of your game if you have to fund the country with your charity when there is a government. Shame again. When a First Lady operates a private non-governmental organization (NGO) from the Presidential Villa, it almost always triggers public suspicion regarding accountability, funding, and the abuse of power. She stated that the Renewed Hope Initiative would initially be funded using unspent money from the 2023 APC presidential campaign purse. Can you see why this is a meddlesome affair? The governing board of her "charity" does not consist of independent humanitarian experts. Instead, it features the Wife of the Vice President, the Wife of the Senate President, and the APC National Women Leader. Please sell us another story.

They will get it again. No surprises. I hope there are no wars at that time

vr0xen:
you still have a chance. May God help you

Amin
Amin
Amin
Amen
Amen
Ameen

vr0xen:
you can’t be saved but I will continue praying for you. Help me with your real name so I can book mass for you tomorrow

27.06.2026

or

26.07.2026?


Let's make it 26th July or we can do 26/7 and it's a Sunday 😂😂😂😂😂


I can’t be saved? I reject that 6 to 7 times. I have saved the date for our special prayer.

Noooooo. I promised not to write more than 6 lines

Now you made me write 7

motymop:
the tech company only push those who are consistent

and the peller guy didnt become popular because tech compnaies were pushing him

he became popular because he was the first who was consistent and he had a target audience were where from the ghetto like him

There is a reward for it. That's what the tech companies have done. Many of us don't realize but we are slaves to the platforms. Imagine Tiktok is down today, what next? This is why when those websites die, the people are next to nothing. They need content and the cheap way to get that is to make everyone waste their time there. If there was no reward, he would have stopped a long time ago.

Tech giants (Meta, TikTok, Google, X) do not reward content out of altruism or a love for creativity. They reward it because of a brutal, hyper-optimized economic framework known as The Attention Economy. The Google CEO said something about this I think in 2010 or earlier. Tech companies commodify human attention through hyper-addictive algorithms to maximize ad revenue, exposing their profound hypocrisy as Silicon Valley executives strictly ban their own children from using the very digital narcotics they hook the global public on, proving that a small, insulated tech elite ultimately controls human consciousness for profit. Philosophically, tech platforms operate on a pessimistic view of human nature. They know the human brain is evolutionary wired to prioritize threats, outrage, sexual novelty, and tribal conflict (the amygdala response). Therefore, the system is designed to reward content that triggers emotional instability over content that requires slow, logical, and calm processing. By dangling monetization (AdSense, Creator Funds, tipping), tech companies turn millions of people into hyper-competitive, 24/7 content production factories. The platform takes the lion's share of the profit while taking zero creative risks. Don't forget that some years ago many people went into blogging to be rich like Linda Ikeji and it changed the way people wrote. People started writing for SEO and adverts, not what they really had in mind. It went from natural to artifical. The reward system is what they responded to.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7493218574664813846


If Tinubu should disconnect these platforms, it will bring attention to him so it is a double edge sword. While it gives people free platforms to do what they want, it can be a tool to bring people to their consciousness if they want to and this is very dangerous so it is better to have content that dumbs you down. We all knew what happened during the Arab spring and how these platforms were used, including outsiders to overthrow the government.

In summary, what tech removed was disruption of the merit process. Before them, there was a process but now, anyone can talk and the reason why even supposed intellectuals are trying to play the game is because they see that the popularity is something they can get from it. Remove that fame game and see how people behave.


Edit: things may change soon and just like any product, when people are tired of the olodo uprising, they will take their attention to the experts in the house so maybe we should let the time do its thing

All I see is advertising a page and you and I know that you know what you are doing. Goodluck to you and your child

The tech companies broke a lot of gatekeeping and introduced their own metrics, that's why things are like this today. It has some advantages because you don't need middle men and their sometimes biased opinion but what it did was to let the ordinary people decide what they wanted. Now we know there are more people who are not thinking critically than those who are.

Because the child was never corrected, he grew up to call his father an 0diot. You can't skip the process

codemaniacs:
Awolowo was a hypocrite so don't use his quotes...

I separate a person's entire character from a single opinion. Disagreement on one point does not wipe out everything else. It is possible to analyze and use an idea without endorsing the person who said it.

This is something I have seen from the olodo uprising too. We were taught to disagree with ideas. I do not like what Mrs Tinubu said but if tomorrow, she says something that makes sense, I will take it. Tinubu made sense when he was in opposition, today I am holding him to his words.

If we only listen to people we 100% agree with, we will end up talking to nobody but ourselves.

vr0xen:
continue defending yourself and your teammates like chelini and bonucci

Nice one.

Chiellini finished his legendary Italy national team career with a 66.67% success rate. Across his 117 total caps for the Azzurri, he walked away with 59 wins, 38 draws, and only 20 losses. In his final playing seasons in Major League Soccer (MLS) with Los Angeles FC, his single-game passing accuracy hit exactly 67% during a regular-season match on July 15, 2023.

Bonucci came on as a sub on July 11, 2021, during the UEFA Euro 2020 Final against England at Wembley Stadium. After England took an early lead, Bonucci scored the equalizing goal in the 67th minute by poking the ball in after a chaotic corner kick scramble. This 67th-minute strike made him the oldest player ever to score in a European Championship final (at 34 years and 71 days old)

Let me shock you. Bonucci finishing his professional club and international career with exactly 670 total official appearances (excluding friendlies). Across these 670 matches, the legendary ball- playing center-back scored 43 goals and provided 20 assists.

Mariangeles:
One chapter a day will make a difference, at least.
With so many distractions around.

. You know the irony? We have so many resources today but the distractions are more than them. For instance, I am very sure the audio version is available but our brains are too fried and we want the next dopamine hit, not a book that takes time to process. Boring 💤

nairalanda1:
English as a language has several dialects,most of which are weird.

America in particular, there are all sorts of dialects of english there among the whites alone that would sound strange and funny and indechiperable to Nigerians

Also, our Nigerian accent is considered weird too.

Yes, but in this case what he calls weird is the words they formed for themselves. It is like how we use certain words and though it is English, outsiders will not understand the meaning. A simple "okay" can have different meanings the way Indians nod their head without agreeing

vr0xen:
67 is a popular satanic cult sign in America and the entire west so am not surprised here.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7570873349774019870

69 was an innocent number until some people corrupted it

I just saw Charlie and his 999, no number is safe my dear

nairalanda1:
I think that world society increasingly resembles Huxley's Brave New World, rather than Orwell's 1984

You are quite correct. I read of a shooting recently and what was the shooter against? Too much pleasure, he was against porn,
claimed to be fighting a violent war against modern consumer capitalism and the destruction of traditional human relationships.

I would say tech was the biggest influence to today's culture. I think we'll look back at Y2K now and start connecting the dots. Maybe if we had down votes, society may have seen some ideas that did not make sense but look at how everything has been reduced to tech algorithm, including 5 stars. Less quality, more quantity.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7561873322334604575

ruggedtimi:
Following black american women online is something else. They are so weird...90% single mothers with tattoos everywhere. With weird english.

That English is called AAVE


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7626184201443872014

The history behind it is white man control to the black in America. That's their pidgin


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7102272736457739566

Mariangeles:
What happened in 1984?

Xx

It's a book everyone should read but I don't think this generation will read it because it's too long I need shorts

1984 is upon us again. It is to the government's benefit that there are many ignorant people. They are the easiest to control.

The intellectuals would ask too many questions and we don't want that. I just posted a few days on the 90s to 2000s thread that music lost its consciousness in the 90s and I joked that why won't the politicians who oppress you be dancing with you when they know the lyrics to the songs these days are meaningless and do not ask them questions

Klington:
Tinubu is so afraid of the man Peter Obi.

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


June 12, 2013 by The Nation

PDP, Jonathan have failed Nigerians, says Tinubu

ACN leader lashes govt on economy, security
President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is confused about how to tackle Nigeria’s challenges, especially poverty and insecurity, a leader of the newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has said.

He said the Federal Government promised peace and security, but under its “unwatchful eye” insecurity has grown and Boko Haram “has turned large tracts of northern Nigeria into no man’s land”.


But, a bright future, he said, is on the horizon as the APC, which he called “the government in-waiting”, would rescue Nigeria from its confused state.


“As leaders of the new party and government in-waiting, we intend to pursue dynamic, time-tested and bold policies that will liberate our people by making sure our wealth works for us,” Tinubu said.

Nigerians, said Tinubu, have become increasingly divided as a people because the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government continues to take faulty steps in addressing poverty and injustice.

“They have ignored the cause and gone after the symptoms,” the former Lagos State Governor told a packed audience inside the Grand Committee Ballroom, Westminster Hall, House of Parliament, London on Monday. He identified failed policies on power, employment, economy and security as evidence of bad leadership.


Tinubu, the keynote speaker at the British African Diaspora Conference, spoke on “Leadership, national development and the people”.

He urged the Federal Government to apply a consistent policy of targeted law enforcement operations along with an active programme of economic development, negotiations and potential amnesty for penitent Boko Haram members.

He said rather than take this step, the nation has been treated to series of government inaction and indiscriminate use of force, which culminated in the declaration of a state of emergency in three states.


“The Jonathan government set up a special Committee on Boko Haram and Security matters, but sadly before they could perform, he declared State of Emergency in three Northern states: Yobe, Borno and Adamawa.

“This is symptomatic of a confused leadership. If there is security in this jumbled policy, neither I nor the majority of Nigerians can find it!”

To the fomer Lagos governor, if Nigeria is to mature as a democracy, its electoral system must be improved. He decried the fact that those who control the system manipulate elections with such impunity that they now see misconduct without sanction as a normal way of life.


Said he: “Look at the recent controversy surrounding election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) chairman… A group comprising all the nations’ governors could not even conduct a simple 35-person election without a disputed outcome.

“With this recent experience, I fear the length those in power would go and the means they would employ to manipulate results when the battleground is the entire nation and the stakes are the general elections in 2015.

“The NGF debacle symbolises a disdain for democracy and the popular will. If we are to save Nigeria, we must rescue the electoral process from its abusers,” Tinubu said.

In his view, a great philosophical gulf separates the government from the progressives. “This current Nigerian government is a retrogressive one. Much of what they claim as growth is but the harsh redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. The bottom gets squeezed while the top expands. They are serving us the salad of corruption.

“They consume our today and squander the nation’s tomorrow. For 14 years, the PDP-led government cannot turn anything around. A new leadership is required to put a stop to this.”

Tinubu criticised Nigeria’s economic policies, saying the economy is being reconstructed “as an oasis for a small few and a stark desert for the many” while the government pretends to endorse the same budget-cutting austerity policies as much of Europe.

“We are not Europe; we are a Third World economy. That these policies have failed in European nations with higher standards of living than Nigeria gives our leaders no concern.”

Tinubu said the people live in dire straits, yet the government would rather waste the money than spend it on public benefit because they do not believe the people deserve it.

He said the progressives would bring pragmatic solution to the country’s woes because in their approach to the political economy, they do not rely on textbook answers as they do not “live in textbooks.

He said: “We live in the real world and thus seek answers from real world experiences. Here is a real world fact: No large nation has ever attained sustained growth without government running budget deficits to build the required infrastructure and without other government policies promoting development of the key industries that would become the spine of national development.

“Here is another such fact: No populous nation ever attains prosperity solely by extracting its raw material to exchange them for the finished goods of other large nations. We must industrialise and diversify our economy

“It is for this reason – to save the nation from the stranglehold of permanent poverty and poor governance – that the members of the progressive opposition political parties have decided to put aside personal ambition (including my own ambition) to form a new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). We do this because Nigeria has entered a critical state of economic depression.”

According to Tinubu, because of the unfair nature of the electoral processes and the gross imbalance of its political economy, the people have been props in a drama for which they should have been the main characters. “We must change this,” he said.

He said the progressives must move Nigeria away from a place where the whims and narrow wishes of self-centered reactionary elite dictate the fate of over 150 million people.

“On our side, we will take our chances with a free and fair election, for we shall offer the people an innovative programme consisting of a national industrial policy that includes radical infrastructural development and employment targets,” he said.

The former Lagos governor spoke of “the Glorious Nigerian Revolution”, which he said has nothing to do with force of arms.

His words: “The Revolution of which I speak has two major parts. First, is the peaceful conversion of our quasi-democracy into a full-fledged one. Second, is the implementation of policies turning the political economy away from its retrogressive, elitist bearings.

“We seek policies pointing in a progressive direction affording the average person a chance at a dignified life. This will be through the provision of gainful employment, quality education and essential social services for those who need the helping hand of government to survive.

“I see no shame in believing progressive government can improve the political economy and the lives of the people.”

Kionrae:
nnpp which is kwankwaso personal poli

Kwankwaso would not step down to be vice on that platform too.

Putinofrussia:
Either you agree or not,there is a tribe in Nigeria...beautiful and sincere people...that 80% of their women sell ogi and akara and it is a business that has been used by them to train numerous children.They still do till date.
They would rather sell akara than do crime.

Nigeria's First Lady told unemployed, university-educated youths to go fry Akara on the street because "it is not difficult." Then, an APC chieftain said he is "filled with shame" because the youth got angry at this "honest advice." Honestly, I agree with him! It is a brilliant advice. In fact, let's start the implementation with the politicians' families.

Imagine a politician's son landing in Abuja straight from London with a first-class degree from Oxford. His dad hugs him at the airport, hands him an apron, a giant iron pot, and says:
"Welcome home, my boy! We have secured a prime spot for you next to the gutter on the highway. Go and fry akara for Nigeria's economic recovery!"

Because if street-corner frying is a dignified career path for Nigeria's future, surely it's good enough for the children of the elite! Why hide them in high-paying CBN and NNPC jobs? Give them the frying pans first! Let them lead by example!

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7651353890704592149

Politicians love telling the public to "tighten their belts" while they are busy buying luxury SUVs and expanding their own waistlines. They crash the economy, destroy the power grid, and then wonder why you can't fry beans in the dark. Peace be for you

Sir, if this advice is so excellent, let the government launch an empowerment scheme where the children of APC chieftains take the lead in frying Akara on the streets. If it isn't good enough for your children, do not get angry when other people's children reject it. True leadership leads by example. Until we see the children of APC chieftains roasting corn on the streets of Abuja after graduating from UK universities, nobody should preach petty trade to other people's children.


Why did they start with cars for the women leaders last week? 🤡

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7647286952948944136


If this advice is so filled with wisdom, why are politicians' children being appointed into secure NNPC and CBN roles while everyone else's children are being handed a frying pan? If frying Akara is such a lucrative blueprint for economic recovery, let's see the government allocate the next round of CBN grants to the children of the poor to set up roadside akara stands.

ednut1:
The story is fake and was AI generated. The person does no exist

Exactly what I expected but we are in the olodo uprising, ordinary fact check, dem no fit do

With all due respect, sir, leadership should desire the same standard for the public as they do for their own families. If this is lucrative and honorable advice for Nigeria's unemployed youth, we should see the children of public officials leading by example and setting up these petty trades after graduation, rather than occupying secure corporate or government roles. It was only a few days ago that Akpabio denied that his children were not in NNPC, why wasn't he happy to show us their Akara and agbado business? 🤡

Joe, if you want slaves, just say it, at least you're being honest. How many of your own sisters, daughters or in laws are frying Akara? How many of Tinubu's daughters are doing that?

Sir, if this advice is so excellent, let the government launch an empowerment scheme where the children of APC chieftains take the lead in frying Akara on the streets. If it isn't good enough for your children, do not get angry when other people's children reject it.

An elder who gives useless advice only has his or herself to blame. Since that woman washed Adeyemi for Senate, na Nigerian people I blame for not seeing the signs or seeing the signs and ignoring g them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5isePNNupFI