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Words are like bullets, he shot this one, too late to retrieve them.

Agugbadin:
This protesters will be hiding their faces in shame as Stella is returning some of the looted funds.

We have professional protesters in Nigeria

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SixSeven:
you could not have described it better. They have Stockholm syndrome.

Christians are the majority in Venuezela, largely, a Catholic nation but they think the oppressor will save them. They have no idea that their forefathers, some of them are still in that country. The same thing with Cuba (about seventy percent of Cuban Africans are from Nigeria) , we have strong ties to Cuba but you see, I admitted that like the madness Trump and his cabinet are doing, I think those who have never experienced war think it's GTA. I don't think many of them even know that The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is part of Nigeria's foreign policy. Tugarr still talked about it last December.

Many Africans do not know who they are. They only know what they have been fed through religion and that's why they defend it fervently because that is the only identity they can hold on to. Many Nigerians also do not know their country's history, that's why they are so ignorant about Nigeria and what the country stands for.

We don't know who we are, that's why we are beholden to European, American or Arabian people. We think just because we share the same religion, we share the same identity. Anyone who doesn't know his culture is certain to parrot the truth of his master, because he doesn't know the truth of his own identity, the truth of who he really is.


Africans need to liberate themselves from mental slavery. You know why we are passionate about these topics? It's not religion, it's identity. Many of us don't know who we are so we are taught these things. The average Nigerian can tell you what happened in Jericho/Mecca 300 years ago but ask them what happened in Calabar, Ijesa or Potiskum in 1921, they will scratch their heads. A lot of their parents failed because even when you look at values, most people quote scriptures than what their own people passed on. Nigerians look up to them because they have something in common, religion but those people wonder how can a man not know himself. It's one of the things that was taken from us but we too must start to accept that we are responsible. There are many stories in the North that tells the history of who the people are but unfortunately, religion is the first thing people hold on to because that's what they know, that's what they teach them, that's what they are fed CONSTANTLY. They cannot tell stories of their own ancestors. When you listen to TV/radio/social media discussions, Nigerians quickly quote scriptures, it's very hard to see someone who will say this is how my people do things.


If I ask the average Nigerian to tell me 10 proverbs from where they come from (or their great grandparents), they will struggle. If I ask them to tell me 100 from the Bible or Qur'an, say no more...

I remember that year when they made this an ethnic issue and they defended thievery

Nigeria will never progress if you keep playing victim for everything just because s/he is one of us.

Stella Oduah Must Not Be Removed by Onlytruth(m): 9:33am On Oct 20, 2013

Onlytruth:
This woman's ONLY crime is the internationalization of Enugu airport -nothing more!
She is the only minister of aviation courageous enough to give Igboland an international access, and haters have been having SLEEPLESS NIGHTS over this. She must have received threats to her life because of this, hence the purchase of bullet proof cars for herself and her foreign visitors.
Who can blame her for this, except those we are after her life for trying to equalize the country?

I hereby advise every person who would benefit from Enugu International Airport to stand FIRM and so NO to blood hounds who are baying for her blood!
This is not time for foolish patriotism: but who is patriotic in Nigeria except those fleecing and milking her dry anyway, those who feel that they captured the country and must dictate who gets what?

Nothing must happen to Stella Oduah. She is a GREAT minister and public servant. She has achieved more than those before her.
Jonathan must NOT listen to those who do not plan to support him in 2015 anyway. Removing Stella Odua can cost him Igbo support.

Nuff said!

Pro-Stella Oduah Protest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6WCX1VoDFs

Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, whatever you are, if you defend a thief, you have no honor.

Vilgax:
yessssss

"the Islamic Regime of Cuba is about to fall."

they probably have nukes too

cause we all know Trump is only going after threats to Christianity.

freaking clowns

you could not have described it better. They have Stockholm syndrome.

Christians are the majority in Venuezela, largely, a Catholic nation but they think the oppressor will save them. They have no idea that their forefathers, some of them are still in that country. The same thing with Cuba (about seventy percent of Cuban Africans are from Nigeria) , we have strong ties to Cuba but you see, I admitted that like the madness Trump and his cabinet are doing, I think those who have never experienced war think it's GTA. I don't think many of them even know that The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is part of Nigeria's foreign policy. Tugarr still talked about it last December.

Many Africans do not know who they are. They only know what they have been fed through religion and that's why they defend it fervently because that is the only identity they can hold on to. Many Nigerians also do not know their country's history, that's why they are so ignorant about Nigeria and what the country stands for.

Racoon:
Dont worry he is going to represent Nigerians and not the alleged drug Lord that appointed him there and explain the unexplainable

Isn't it funny that a recent drug Lord was just killed in Mexico?

Is this a dark joke by the President or what

badoh:
It seems Trump is getting tired of the war already and now looking for every means to stop it without looking stupid. Why attack their leaders in the middle of negotiations and now telling them to surrender. These guys can't withstand pummelling from both US and Israel, however they won't back down and will continue to fight. The war is not necessarily in the first instance.

It means that US will not be trusted on agreements. The damage he has done to the US is even worse.

Is this an auto topic or autobiology one

WizardOfNG:
I agree with you broadly because I feel good education can begin from the home. What I will add is that successive Government appear not to understand how education, done right, can truly drive the accelerated development of Nigeria far quicker and more wfficiently than anything else.

Nigeria, put simply, need the most high quality and robust education, at every level up to University, anyone on Earth can recieve. Yes it will be expensive but the returns for Nigeria will be massive.

Proof of my point is how Nigerians become world-class, highly lauded technocrats and some of the best solutions-provision specialists on Earth when they are exposed to the education system in the West.

How is it then possible Nigerian leaders do not see let only appreciate the correlation between the finest education available with nations attaining developed status?

If I were President I would simply tear up our current education system to replace it with a well-funded and no-expenses-spared model because of the immeasurable returns I expect Nigeria to gain from that.

Education should never be profit driven. It should never be commercial but what can I say? At the time Obasanjo and Atiku were there, they both opened private universities before they left office or around the time of leaving office. Any country that invests in education knows the future returns is inestimable but the relationship many of us have with Nigeria is exploitative, that's why everyone is waiting their turn to steal from the public purse and that kind of system is not sustainable. We can't keep solving our problems as individuals, we have to come as a collective and share the commonwealth. It's an irony that those who benefited from free public education and the benefits the government used to give are now doing the opposite. I believe we have a psychiatric problem. It is why we don't know our purpose and want to keep climbing over each other in a poverty stricken nation. How some people feel comfortable driving a Rolls Royce in an untarred road shows me that the person's mind and mindset is abnormal. It's only a psychopath that will be happy in oppressing others and that is not Africa's Ubuntu.

Onlinetutor7:
I support Trump on this. He has started the good work and must be allowed to finish it.

The people of Iran deserves a good leader and Trump will bring that wish to fruition.

So will you be okay with Emmanuel Macron or Turkish President choosing our leader for us?

Typical western union.

Give it time, you can't force yourself on people. That's why I pity Nigerians taking sides. Many of them are not looking at colonization part 2 right in our eyes.

Even the Canadians, Jamaicans and countries under the King of England want 100% independence.

Love800:
Biologically, a girl can start giving birth in her teens(12-17) and start marriage.

Politically, 16, 17, 18, 19yrs, depending on the laws for age intimacy.

The Epstein files has revealed the hypocrisy of the people Nigerians look up to. This people want young girls, they want to abuse them but when we advocate for the proper thing to be done here, they call it abuse. We marry more women as wives here, they say polygamy is abuse of women but they want to have a free way with women as if they are items of pleasure to be played with when they desire🤡 Animal wan dash me human right

Hypocrites.

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If we are not advocating enough for our commonwealth to be prioritised for free education of all children by well paid teachers, then how do we even start to reclaim our identity through a well rooted personality built on the good, the bad and the ugly parts of our history

It starts from the home. That is the first school of life. The family is the functional unit of society. It's sad that the government is deliberately not interested in history or values so as to control the people but in the meantime, the one that is within the people's control is to start learning about themselves from the home. Start from your family. I want families to start discussing who they are, I hope it becomes a trend with this Gen Z who use everything for content but you must give them kudos for questioning what they met on ground. Not religion, I want them to just start telling their stories. It's something a lot of people are uncomfortable with because even the parents don't know

But there's no shame in learning. He who learns teaches - African Proverb.


Edit: miseducation of Negro already identifies the fact that most Negros are lost and they have been lied to and misdeucated but it is never too late to start knowing who we are. Japa is the first shocker for some people when they learn that people over there are more interested in their culture than religion

Western hypocrisy

They will have no choice

mobi5592:
Is it not too early in the day for all these crashout? It's still just day 4

Do not die in their war but if you get so excited over it, I have no sorry to give you.

This is about ensuring Nigerians can converse with search in their mother tongues, making information more helpful for everyone

RealityKings1:
If you hold a ssce or olevel, you are not an illiterate. You can still understand and contribute to the society, you are literate. Literate because you can read and write.

[quote author=SixSeven post=138674636]Because we don't know the meaning of the word literate.

A person is literate if they can read and write in any language. Take note, any language. Do you know that a lot of Nigerians are cultural illiterates

People look at market women and think they are illiterates because they didn't go to school. Southerners look at Northerners as illiterate because they use a language they do not recognize as English to communicate 🤡

It got so bad that our currency was subjected to change because there was a foreign language written in scripts that

1. People did not understand because it was foreign to them
2. People thought, for religious reasons, it belonged to them 😂

Are Nigerians religious illiterates too? Though you have translations, many don't even read their books, they use another creation of God to help them read and say the message like sheep 🐑☺️[/quote

What's more... The rate at which Nigerians fail IELTS is enough to ask who really is the illiterate

PigTormentor:
You cannot be in any military and say such thing. Come and join the US army and tey that. You will be locked up by the Army sharply.

You know what he reminds me of? We are back full circle 360°

During Jonathan's time, soldiers were punished for complaining about the conditions of their battle....

Boko Haram: Soldiers Mutiny, Demand Better Equipment - Politics (3) - Nairaland

9ja4Change:
A group of soldiers in north-eastern Nigeria is refusing to fight Boko Haram militants until they receive better equipment, one of the mutineers has told the BBC.

The soldier, who requested anonymity, said at least 40 of his colleagues would refuse orders to deploy.

The military has not commented on the reported mutiny or the demands.

A state of emergency that was declared in three north-eastern states last year has failed to curb the insurgency.

Boko Haram has stepped up its attacks after being pushed out of its bases in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, targeting towns and villages in deadly raids.

“Soldiers are dying like fowl,” the soldier, who said he and his colleagues were just outside Maiduguri, told the BBC service.

“The Nigerian army is not ready to fight Boko Haram,” he said, explaining that soldiers were not being given enough weapons and ammunition to take them on.

“Boko Haram are inside the bush, everywhere,” he said “They [senior commanders] are sacrificing soldiers,” he said.

Even the vehicles the soldiers were expected to use were old armoured cars that were not up to the job, he added.

A general in the army, who asked not to be named, told the BBC that he was unable to confirm the mutiny, but said “cowardice” was not uncommon in times of war – and any mutineers would be punished.

When the solder was asked if he feared being court-martialled for taking part in the mutiny, he said that a soldier could only be taken to task for refusing to go to war.

“I joined the army to defend my country”, but you cannot defend it without being equipped to do so, he said.

In April, Boko Haram caused global outrage by abducting more than 200 girls from a boarding school in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state.

The group has also carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations, including that of moderate Muslim leaders opposed to its ideology.

SOURCE: BBC News

RealityKings1:
If you hold a ssce or olevel, you are not an illiterate. You can still understand and contribute to the society, you are literate. Literate because you can read and write.

Because we don't know the meaning of the word literate.

A person is literate if they can read and write in any language. Take note, any language. Do you know that a lot of Nigerians are cultural illiterates

People look at market women and think they are illiterates because they didn't go to school. Southerners look at Northerners as illiterate because they use a language they do not recognize as English to communicate 🤡

It got so bad that our currency was subjected to change because there was a foreign language written in scripts that

1. People did not understand because it was foreign to them
2. People thought, for religious reasons, it belonged to them 😂

Are Nigerians religious illiterates too? Though you have translations, many don't even read their books, they use another creation of God to help them read and say the message like sheep 🐑☺️

What was his offence? He talked too much truth

Phranx1:
Congrats to her but her 250k 3 yrs back is much more valuable than her 1 million of today, APC hudini bulabu.

What does this mean if you don't mind? The hudini

WizardOfNG

It's not just the North, Africans need to liberate themselves from mental slavery. You know why we are passionate about these topics? It's not religion, it's identity. Many of us don't know who we are so we are taught these things. The average Nigerian can tell you what happened in Jericho but ask them what happened in Calabar, Ijesa or Potiskum, they will scratch their heads. A lot of their parents failed because even when you look at values, most people quote scriptures than what their own people passed on. Nigerians look up to them because they have something in common, religion but those people wonder how can a man not know himself. It's one of the things that was taken from us but we too must start to accept that we are responsible. There are many stories in the North that tells the history of who the people are but unfortunately, religion is the first thing people hold to because that's what they know, that's what they teach them, that's what they are fed.

If I ask the average Nigerian to tell me 10 popular sayings from where they come from, they will struggle. If I ask them to tell me 100 from the Bible or Qur'an, say no more...

SixSeven:
. Jesus Christ taught them all these things in South Africa? Did the Muslim Prophet teach them (the UAE) all the things they are doing in Sudan? You can't tell me what your ancestors taught you, you start from religion. You don't know your identity my friend. Notice I didn't use religion to talk about my identity. Who are you before the religious labels? What did your forefathers teach you about these things? Is it only Jesus that taught you? Are you telling me your forefathers did not pass any lessons to you about this world that you waited for religious texts to teach you? What did your own people teach you about other people? Hmmm you just proved my point. Enjoy my friend

Those who bring artistry to football make it more beautiful to watch but since na technical and technical we wan do, e no go tey wey machine go help us since we feel art is a problem for the game.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj3dKKp9tI

Power Sector Has Been Privatised, There’s Little the President Can Do – Reno Omokri


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i_oUQRxWAc

I personally don't respect a public servant who is a leader and doesn't have the balls to talk to his people and let's his aides speak his mind. But you know what is funny here? Omokri was a SA to Jonathan. I don't want to waste my precious time on him. A man of conviction stays with his principles, he doesn't move like electricity from Kainji Dam to Kabba.

https://dailypost.ng/2013/05/27/reno-omokri-president-jonathan-a-study-in-under-promising-and-over-delivering/

I trust the military to dead this matter. This kind of things are not for social media consumption. I rest my case. IYKYK

Frank Mba was a very good communicator while he was in Lagos. I see some things happening here. The IG too is very professional in his social media posts. You will see a more professional approach to media engagements by the NPF, that one I am very sure of. You won't see NPF handle to be used for farming or cruise.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtG6Jfud1Do


When Momoh Kubanji was alive, I think he and Osita used to give the public updates on road traffic and policing. Very professional in their conduct. I hope the IG gets to do a good turnaround within the time he has.

I HATED POLICE WORK WITH PASSION ....... FRANK MBA (FORMER PPRO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhQO5yO4eo

Imindmybusiness:
Tinubu will just introduce politics without thinking it through only to reverse himself all the time. Either he has bad advisers or he doesn't listen to them.

To be fair, his minister and the authorities did this. I am not absolving him as the commander in chief but just putting it in perspective because I know they announced this policy some weeks before they intrigued it. This is presidential override.

Critics argued that the young couple should focus on education and personal development before marriage.

Personal development indeed. This generation doesn't want to take responsibility early, they want to deceive themsleves that they are building themselves while projecting their fears on others. They are too young, they are too this and that. Meanwhile, someone at 40 will still get divorced, someone at 50 will still be crying about DNA test. I don't see anything wrong with these guys. North and South of Nigeria never had problems with this kind of marriage until ITK People came in and wanted to be like Westerners. Who will take care of them? Don't worry, they will take them of themselves. Better married than wasting their lives with false promises and giving your virginity for an irresponsible boy still trying to eat the cookie but doesn't want the responsibility of the cookie, yet he says he's building himself 🤡

SixSeven:
Marriage Is Not an Achievement But Responsibility Is
Many young people now reject marriage as a measure of success, and they are not wrong. Marriage by itself is not an achievement but it is a social structure. Now let me educate them a bit, what deserves closer attention is not your rejection of the idea of marriage, but the growing discomfort with responsibility that often accompanies it.

In African philosophy, a human being is measured largely by character. Achievement lies in the ability to act with restraint, care, and accountability. Marriage without these qualities is empty and freedom without them is destructive.

Sex has never been treated as morally neutral in any serious society. This is not because desire is evil and we are not biological people but because sex carries consequences. It creates emotional bonds, social expectations, and the possibility of children. A culture that treats sex as casual while demanding stable outcomes is not enlightened. It is inconsistent with social order and you can see the results today. One guy is always writing on his posts here on NL that the only advice he has for men is to conduct DNA.

For women, sexual fidelity was historically preserved to protect clear lines of responsibility but the ones who think they have opened eyes said it was for control. In a world without DNA testing, fidelity ensured that motherhood, paternity, and inheritance were socially legible. It allowed men to be held accountable and children to know where they belonged. Sexual norms were less about purity and more about responsibility. This did not mean women alone bore moral burden. Female sexual discipline made sense only in societies that demanded male duty in return. When restraint was expected of women but responsibility was optional for men, the moral logic broke.

Motherhood, like fatherhood, is more than biology. To bring life into the world is to accept obligation. The woman who nurtures, guides, and forms character performs one of the most demanding social roles that exists. A society that dismisses this labor while celebrating autonomy misunderstands freedom.
The family unit matters not just because it is traditional, but because it works. It is the foundation to society. It is the first place where limits are learned, where care becomes habitual, and where responsibility becomes personal. When family structures weaken, the cost of this weakness does not go away as people think it will fizzle out. It reappears in institutions asked to do what homes once did. There was a reason we said a community raises a child and why our proverbs talk about family and lineage. For so many years, the West tried to break our hegemony, they wanted us to leave our values and ethics and be like them while secretly admiring our foundation and structure. Thank God many people have japa now, they can now see the difference between oyinbo life and our society where each child is everyone's child but unfortunately when they go back home, alas even the people back home want to be like the oyinbo man without knowing it's a sad life disconnected from our roots as a people.

Young people are not wrong to question marriage. They are right to question hollow traditions. What must be reconsidered is not marriage as a trophy, but responsibility as a value.


Sexual freedom without accountability is not progress. Fidelity without mutual obligation is not justice.

I am happy this generation is sleeping anyhow and anywhere with anyone they like. When the chicken comes home to roost, you will then appreciate the wisdom of your forefathers and mothers in preserving the institution called marriage and why society needs order, accountability and responsibility. It is what we call you go see for yourself. When you are young you question many things but with age you start to understand many things too. Your parents got married because it was a sign of responsibility. Some people asked why the opinion of a married person was more important than that of an unmarried person. Those who maintained this tradition knew that it takes a special person to live with another wo/man as husband/wife and still be normal. That's why in the past, for politicians, they used to yab themselves if anyone of them had family issues that "you that cannot take care of your home wants to take care of our country".



Marriage is a school.
Freedom is a mirage.
Marriage is not an achievement.
Becoming a responsible adult is.

Kobojunkie:
Wait a couple of years(maybe even before it can walk), and you might find that same child out on the streets of Nigeria, along with the other Almajiri children out there. Almajiri Nation! 🥱🥱🥱

Almajiri parent get time for photoshoot? You don't know what you are saying.

Putindbutt:
He read animal anatomy, he should be studying animals in the forest not interviewing human beings. Sometimes when I watch him talk and flexing his mouth muscles, I find it funny that a lawbreaker who was boastful in crime sits on TV acting like a human right and good governance activist.

Rufai and journalism are two parallel lines that can't meet.

This line of argument is weak and does not make sense. You could as well say President Jonathan should be in the Zoo, Yar Adua in the lab and Buhari in the barracks. You can do better. Maybe Abati should be in the theatre since he was a first class graduate 🤡

The man just came in. Give him time. Rome was not built in a day.

Jokers 🤡