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BOOZELEE:
South Sudanese nko.They are the real black

Yeah, they are very dark but are they black? No. They are dark brown but cannot be black.

If you are looking at the literal paint or color palette, their skin is an exceptionally rich, deep shade of dark brown, not literal jet-black. Human skin cannot produce literal black pigment. The color comes from eumelanin, which is a dark brown pigment. When eumelanin is packed in extremely high concentrations, as it is in South Sudanese genetics it absorbs almost all visible light. So their physical skin color is the deepest, most concentrated shade of dark brown found in nature.

The concept of "Black" as a racial category is largely a Western and American construct, born out of the transatlantic slave trade and European colonialism. In everyday life within South Sudan, people do not typically walk around calling themselves "Black." Doing so would be redundant and meaningless in a country where virtually everyone shares a dark African heritage. Instead, their identity is deeply specific and localized by tribe or ethnicity. This is why many Africans are surprised that they are black only when they travel to these countries. We don't call ourselves black.

CJStarz:
Good job.
Her knee?
Michelle's rough looking ankles?

Michelle is 62 years old

Rough or dry ankles are not specific to one age group, but they most commonly start or worsen in adults over 50 due to age-related skin and structural changes. However, rough skin and calluses on the ankles and feet can develop at any age

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Amotolongbo:
She resembles her mum.

Dora Akunyili once told us how she thought her appointment was 419 when she received the call from Obasanjo. She still did not believe Obasanjo was the one who called her. The man relied on recommendations and he didn't need to know you directly to do the job. If he wanted the best, he will get them from anywhere.

Blood is thicker than water

Discuss

Na woman wey no wear pant de show her bumbum be pretty woman? You never ready

They say it's easy to watch the mad man dance naked in the market square until it is your relative

IronGalaxy:
Remind me again, why must we tolerate this?

They are sending back illegal immigrants from their country. Every country does this so I will give South Africa that chance even though they have targeted people who are not illegal in their country but they hiding under the cover of illegal migrants. We have to be careful in this analysis. It's almost what the US does and they play the victim card but you find out the democrats have sent more people home than the republicans shout in the media.

To come back home, I think I will allow them to run the course because they need to remind the home governments of their work. At the end, it will also remind the South African government of the work to do because when they don't have migrants to blame anymore, the last card will be the joker card 🃏

AMINDA:
They ran on the false pretence of being fighters of democracy but time and tide has proven them to be worse than Abacha. Tinubu lives in morbid fear of subjecting himself to the electoral process because he knows that as long as a competitive election will hold, he will lose.

Time and tide....
"Everyone claims to be democratic but not everyone is faithful to his or her word. We have governments that are democracies on paper, but not in function. They are democracies in form but not in substance. We have governments that only know democracy primarily through breaching it"

~ words on marble by Jagaban Asiwaju BAT on June 10, 2013

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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.”

zenburster:
Who knows Dickson outside his Bayelsa state, and maybe in the Niger Delta?

I can't even call him a local champion.

I know he is likely angling for the VP position in 2031, but these boastful statements are rather ill-advised.

As in. They don't understand what's at stake, they are merely interested in their ego. Na so dem Atiku camp do until the end

Our politicians don't know when to back down and concede. They all want to be number 1, that's their big problem 👇

SixSeven:
Amaechi, Obi and Kwankwaso have proven their worth

This campaign is intense. It is very obvious now that Peter Obi is their nemesis. How people can advise a man and try to shave his hair behind him is the 2027 wonder.

I think a problem our elites have with Obi is that they didn't make him. You know we have a lot of sycophants in this country so they always want to play a role in your life. So they will later say "God spoke to me to talk to Obi" or "I sponsored his campaign" or "he came to beg for ponmo in my house and I fed him". They don't have that agency of control over Obi or the Obidients that's why he's a problem to them. They want to play a hand in the role so they will feel important too.

I remember how this man was insulted last election. They gave this same advice to him. They told him to wait. They abused his supporters as online poll analysts. He didn't bother responding to them. He responded at the polls. Despite his impressive performance, given the little time he had and no Governor or establishment behind him, they still felt jealous that he could pull that off. If you want to know more about this, check previous election result. No new candidate has ever gathered the kind of votes Obi has. Sowore, Momodu, Shekarau, Durotoye, Ribadu etc. Have you ever asked why they don't give this kind of advice to Tinubu or Atiku? Or why they don't even tell Sowore too?

Be patient who those who give advice but be wise with what advice you take and use.

olyrayy:
It did. In 2003. And also in 2011 for Jonathan.



Is this a joke? Using the only state with blatant rigging as the entire case study? Talk about strawmanning. Rivers was the only state where the vote count and iREV figures differed. The remaining states tallied.

My dear, use the internet

You know, we have AI now, it can help you fact check my claim and you will see the other states that had the same issue.

Drfernandez:
Nonsense OP. This was in 2023. Anyway, it's obvious that you guys don't even have data to watch the video.

Kwankwaso said worse and he has been quoted here. Amaechi said worse a few weeks ago and is now VP candidate. Tinubu strongly condemned Buhari's political ambitions. In a chat with a US Consul General, Tinubu reportedly described Buhari as:

1. An "ethnocentric" figure who would threaten national unity.

2. A religious fanatic whose leadership would be dangerous.

3. An agent of destabilization who would be far worse for Nigeria than former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM0GmE5knYg

Today, he is saying he is Buhari. He will continue from where Buhari stopped. Trust no politician

What is POMR? That's the easiest thing to have defined in your release

CodeTemplar:
Comtent creation. Ride on.

He should go to Tiktok. People have time to waste there. He will get the numbers he is looking for. All the best

Ezeama400:
Four Generals Were Murdered by Terrorists Under Tinubu, Yet None of Their Killers Has Been Reported Captured — Social Commentator, Obiasogu David



Source

"Everyone claims to be democratic but not everyone is faithful to his or her word. We have governments that are democracies on paper, but not in function. They are democracies in form but not in substance. We have governments that only know democracy primarily through breaching it"

~ words on marble by Jagaban Asiwaju BAT on June 10, 2013

NwaNimo1:
Seeing is believing......Japan no dey breed outside normally

Naomi Osaka has Haitian and Japanese heritage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZRls7B7uzY

She is Japanese

These are the popular people you know. The ones that are not popular aplenty

grandstar:
Due to the one drop rule in many parts of the world, if you have a drop of black blood, you are considered black and treated as such. If you are "white passing" such as Wentworth Miller in "Prison Break" you'll be treated as white unless you expose yourself.

There's also no black blood

He is not black, he is brown-skinned . Thank you.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7327131838567173418

Hhh4444:
WE NOW HAVE ANOTHER GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA CALL BANDITS. THEY HAVE AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE TAXES AND LEVIES ON NIGERIANS. IT HAS NEVER BEEN THIS BAD.

I want to ask our Finance Minister whether we have a government agreement with the bandits for our taxes

See the so called democrat. Give a man pose and you'll see who he really is.

Wike is proof that Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not a true democrat. If he was he would not let his serving minister be so involved in politics to this extent. I have no blame on Wike, it is his boss I blame for letting his cabinet ministers behave anyhow.

Now I see Buhari tried even though you'd expect worse from a former military man

Sugarboyy:
Since you are the soldier, go and unseat him Na.
The real soldiers that tried, where are they now? In jail and their families are begging for them not to be sentenced to death for treason. That's how your family will also cry and beg the same Tinubu to spare your life if you try to do what the real soldiers couldn't do

Okay Sugarboyy, those who refused to learn from history often repeat it.

Sugarboyy:
And you think something bigger is not coming for NDC soon?
Just sit, relax and watch what's on it's way for NDC. Tinubu will end up contesting without Atiku and Obi on the ballot and hear me clearly, nothing will happen

Tinubu is not a soldier. Wasn't he the one who cancelled democracy day parade because he was afraid of a coup? Don't stretch your luck too far

Advisors of Obi and Kwankwaso had already seen this long ago

elasticlala:
Ok. Consider revising the title on the treat

Okay, I see what you mean now. A baby daddy is definitely alive not dead.

The phrase "Why did you leave your baby daddy" implies that the mother made a voluntary, conscious choice to end the relationship while the father was still alive.

elasticlala:
You are the one who still didn’t get it. Your question assumes that being a single mother is ALWAYS as a result of the woman leaving the man. However, some Women lost their husbands while they were pregnant, some were victims of rape… I can go on and on

You are answering the question they asked. The person said single mum to single mum, how did you become one.

Single Mum 1: I lost my husband
Single Mum 2: He left me
Single Mum 3: He abused me
Single Mum 4: I left him
Single Mum 5: He cheated on me with infection

You can't answer the question or assume what the response will be before the person responds.

elasticlala:
The question is already biased. Have you ever taken the time to ask about the circumstances that lead women to become single mothers?

But that exactly is the question. Maybe you read it with a biased mind

Question repeated here 👇

Single mum to single mum Y did you leave your baby daddy

Xboss1:
He’s still living in bondage

You are wicked 🙊

Cold demeanour?

You know the cold wey dey him body? Why do we expect automatic response to people that are strangers to us? Common!

You Don't Truly Know a Man Until:

• You travel with him.

• Money is involved.

• You see him when he's angry.

• You live with him.

• You see how he acts when he's drunk or high.

• You tell him "no".

• You see how he deals with loss or grief.

• He's broke or has limited funds.

• You see how he treats his family, friends, and strangers.

A man's true character is revealed in challenging moments.

A celebrity is not your friend just because he is famous. Many people can know them for the work they do but many people do not know who they are. Whoever this comedian is is just trying to get close to him and take some of the fame he has. Entitlement 😡

"The children of the poor you failed to train will never let your children have peace."

The essence of Awolowo's philosophy was that neglecting the welfare and education of disadvantaged children would inevitably lead to future social unrest, insecurity, and instability. It reflects his strong, foundational belief that education is a universal right and an equalizer, rather than a privilege meant only for the elite.

Awolowo famously championed these principles by introducing free primary education and free health care for children in the Western Region of Nigeria in the 1950s.

TheStoriesOfMan:
The only politician I see doing that is Obi aka "we no dey give Shishi".

Hold on, but money plays a particular role in mobilization and sensitization.

Do you mean to say that this can either blur the grey area between genuinely getting the grassroots to play their part in politics or exploring such activities for selfish gains?

But they insult him with this too? Don't you see how they say they will teach him politics? They laugh at him for not having enough polling unit agents and I have outlined the electoral process in a past post. We do not need agents if not that we want to spend money and 'guard' the votes. The voting machine and iRev where meant to make polling agents redundant

SixSeven:
Repost 👇

Thank you for this thread. Let me repost this
There has been so much confusion over the reportage of this issue and I am so disappointed in the media. It is not electronic voting, it is ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION of results. They have tried to use this confusion to mislead people with e-voting. Is it this NASS that did not allow diaspora to vote that wants to give electronic voting They should start with electronic voting at the Senate first instead of relying on voice vote but these guys we have there now can't. They can never because you can't give what you don't have. Honor is not sold in the market neither is you calling yourself distinguished distinguish you from any cowardly behaviour.

The media is doing a bad work in not reporting the issues properly. I have seen people like Reno mislead the public about the issue. The SP too has said some things when he talks down Nigerians the usual way. Nigerians do not vote electronically, the people are saying cut the amount of manual intervention you have in collation.

The election process is like this:
1. You register to vote.
2. You get your PVC
3. Before election day, you see your name Ong the list of registered voters
4. On election day, you register to vote (this is called accreditation) where the PO confirms that you are on the list of registered voters and it is not someone else
5. You cast your ballot secretly.
6. The PO counts the votes, that IS, ALL the paper you voted for, then writes the results.
This is where Nigerians want the results to be electronically transmitted.
7. This result is announced and a copy normally should be posted for you at your PU
8. The PO takes the counted result that was signed by the party agents and herself to the collation centre

This is where Nigerians saw the magomago. This is why you see the APC guys boast of polling agents. We should be ashamed of ourselves that we need too many people to count votes in 2026. Let me not distract from my essay. Check the quoted post I have below.

There are two collation centres. There's ward collation centre and state collation centre. It is at these places counting magic happens. You see all those things the Professors do on TV? They are only counting LG results for each state. They are also checking if there were any other electoral issues that can lead to some results not counted or cancelled.

What INEC promised at the last election is that with Irev you can see your PU result live. You can even audit the election result for each ward and do your own counting for the LG. But the APC and their abracadabra manipulated your result. So while you were counting after step 5, they saw the live results, did their own counting and gave you the figures they wanted. That's why INEC announced results of the election at night. That's where you saw numbers changed at Irev portal. If party A had 12, they put 6 in front of it and made it 612. That is why the Irev portal had glitch. The glitch was the fraudulent excuse to tamper with the result, change it and have their own numbers. They had to delay the loading to iRev portal so you won't be able to dispute the results. Only a thief at night steals it, snatches it and runs away with it to announce that the white they stole at nibjt is now Ariel clean in the morning.

With electronic transmission, Nigeria will reduce massively how much money we spend on elections. Our elections are only expensive because people simply want to cheat, QED! It's a bloody waste of time recruiting so many people just to count numbers, shey we no de shame? Chai


For those of them that bring that useless video of Elon Musk not trusting electronic voting, please read below. They intentionally omitted the part where US does not conduct its election like ours. They work on trust because from birth you already have an ID and government knows when you turn 18.

It's not as if Obi is special but if he wins, one thing he will help our democracy to do is redefine the process of elections. In fact, one thing he did successfully, or maybe two he did was

1. You don't need a sitting governor to win.
Buhari always won some states despite the FG might and governors there. Obi is that kind of person in recent times to have that cult following. Another person like that is Kwankwaso and they have both proved it. Even if it's one state they are popular in, it means a lot.

2. You don't need a political party to win.
This is almost pushing the independent candidacy to our elections.

SixSeven:
Aside Obi and Kwankwanso, no other politician has been able to prove themselves ALONE outside the establishment.

Repost👇

Obi has the brightest chance going by the last election result followed by Kwankwanso. I choose these two because they left PDP and did not have the structure of the regular party, which Atiku benefitted from using the PDP platform. You also have to look at the time they had to test themselves between the election primaries and election.

If you want to know what that means, Ribadu ran the Presidential election in 2011 under AC and failed with that party structure. Obi and Kwankwanso have been able to test their popularity as candidates outside the regular establishments and done well. Both had no Governors in their party before contesting and pulled a good number in the last election. Buhari used his CPC to bargain with AC to get the Presidential slot in APC. Buhari could say whether he used ANPP or CPC, he could gather votes. I'm not so sure Atiku can do that. He was a presidential candidate of the Action Congress in the 2007 presidential election coming in third to Umaru Yar'Adua of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. Atiku came a distant third in that election with less than 10% of the votes.

It's the gut to do without the so-called structure that makes the politicians afraid because they have somehow forgotten how to test their popularity with the people and they have to rely on parties, godfathers and financiers which is dangerous for our democracy because they will have no choice but repay the godfathers when they get there. We have seen this before.

Let me read your question again.

Hold on, but money plays a particular role in mobilization and sensitization.

Do you mean to say that this can either blur the grey area between genuinely getting the grassroots to play their part in politics or exploring such activities for selfish gains?
It plays a role but is it bribery! No. This is where Obi has advantage. The big parties literally pay people on social media to fight for them. Again, this is why they don't like Obi. What costs them money, he gets it almost free and they are mad at him because they think he is using jazz on the youth. Obi is just lucky that the youth see him as someone they can hold out of these people to represent them. It's not going to last forever but for them they don't care about the party, they just believe in him. Why? He talks to the issues they want to hear, he doesn't talk down at them. They feel a part of him in his campaign. The other parties have their parents who never want to retire sharing money and positions and calling it structure but it is not, it is business. The cost of social media mobilization and sensitisation is cheaper than the other type. Do you hear them say "elections are not on social media", "they don't know politics" etc. It's all lies. Why?they force people to vote for them by taking their PVCs, threatening them, bribing them etc to make sure they get numbers on election day. Those youth online eventually come out in person at the right time. They know when to come out and when to stay online.

The internet has also made them think about it and see us for who we are. They have the power of change too because in any democratic society, most youth always want to feel they made an impact. APC also gained from youth vote in 2015 when Buhari won. If the people choose you, you don't need to waste money to mobilize them. They will do it themselves. Why? Because their lives are at stake and the decisions you make in your 4 years will affect them so let's see how it goes. I hope this cycle helps us end this money politics to an extent because the guts of these people now in power are getting to a ridiculous height where they can do without us and very soon we'll be like Uganda and Cameroon.

TheStoriesOfMan:
The thing is this: you write beautiful, captivating think pieces, but don't you think the electorates have made up their mind to collect gala, malt, rice, ewa, plates, facecaps and other mgbatibati from politicians, and still vote APC?

This is the playbook of the lord and slaves. I have to be careful of labelling it a northern problem, it is a Nigerian problem.

Money politics is a big problem for us in Nigeria so when the people are hungry, do they have enough sense despite knowing the food will not be enough for 4 years?

For every reform we have in our electoral process, the politicians find a way to manipulate it, that's our big problem. If no one offers food, we will see the true result but how many politicians are bold enough to say vote me without any mobilization fees?

TheStoriesOfMan:
Spread ke? You mean spread of eby pwawa?

Hehehehehehehehehehehe

What you wrote there is what the northern political leaders have used for years to'win'

That's why they are able to boast of numbers in election. They rely on begging to vote, they enslave their people in favour of numbers

We must not forget our history and how feudalism reigns in the north. It's changing now especially after Buhari's spectacular failure but does it work? Yes

Let's see if the south doesn't get conquered with this kind of politics

South West did not determine Obasanjo's win neither did it determine Buhari's losses for years. Tinubu lost both Osun and Lagos, the two places he claims to come from.

It means that your home region cannot guarantee you the seat and their lack of support does not mean you can also lose. What you need is to spread across the country and let them like you enough to consider you.

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.

Fact: Tinubu remains the most unpopular president to have won the Presidential elections.

The 2007 and 2023 numbers are figures people do not believe in. Yar Adua accepted the 2007 one but the 2023 result was stage managed and we don't know the true results. The popular case study is Rivers.

Nigerians have a problem with polls. They always try to rig it or influence it. That's why the last census we had was 2006 and that too was controversial because Lagos state counted it's own differently.