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Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Rwanda: FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (1 - 0) On 6th September 2025 by SmartyPants(m): 6:31pm On Sep 06, 2025
femi4:
But the stadium isn't generating any money. After today's match, it will be empty for months
They don't play league games there?
Sports › Re: Nigeria Vs Rwanda: FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (1 - 0) On 6th September 2025 by SmartyPants(m): 6:31pm On Sep 06, 2025
9JAMac10:
Let’s just close up the defense.
At 60 something minutes? They should try it and see the calamity that will befall them.
Sports › Re: 30+ Super Eagles In Premier League: Legends, Present Stars by SmartyPants(m): 10:34am On Sep 06, 2025
Goodlady:
The only person that enjoyed first team without problem was Aiyegbeni Yakubu.
Others chop bench at one point except Okocha which was because of coach dispute.
Even the present 4 that's there looked average. Maybe only two dey play regularly.

That's what's affecting Nigerian football. Our stars aren't playing for the top clubs and those that seem to be playing in top European leagues are bench warmers. What does a woman know, make I go cook abeg.
Crap. Okocha and Yobo captained their clubs, Kanu, Martin's, Odemwingie, Dickson Etuhu, and others were first team regulars.

The present ones are all first team regulars. I for like flog you for commenting on what you know nothing about.
Sports › Re: 30+ Super Eagles In Premier League: Legends, Present Stars by SmartyPants(m): 10:28am On Sep 06, 2025
Every day you people send all sorts of junk to the front page. So neither the writer not the mod that approved this knows that Christantus Uche, Tolu Arokodare, and Samuel Chukwueze all moved to the Premier league this season? Are you providing information or misinformation?
Crime › Re: Boyfriend Of Kadi The Leader Of The Evil 3 Girls Of Bayelsa. (photos). by SmartyPants(m): 4:07am On Sep 06, 2025
So what's the point of posting the guy's image here?? Has he done anything wrong?
Phones › Re: US Lawyer, Mark Zuckerberg Sues Facebook & Meta by SmartyPants(m): 4:05am On Sep 06, 2025
brain54:
Well...

He has a case of he can prove his name is MZ.


I like that US, so many ways to sue and earn free money.

The down side is so many ways being sued and money gotten from you too! undecided
All the ways you can sue in the US are present in Nigeria. We practice a nearly identical legal system based on the same fundamental principals of English Law called the Common Law. You just may not be aware because people don't sue here.
Politics › Re: Jonathan: How I Was Betrayed In 2015 by SmartyPants(m): 9:36pm On Sep 04, 2025
givedemwotowoto:
GEJ is referring to the same group of people we all know about. The people who praised Buhari as the best for 8 years, then condemned him as the worst as soon as he handed over.

Whenever you hear backstabbing/betrayal, it’s always this same group of people. They’re online 24/7 using Amaechi’s laptops for propaganda. United by hate against Igbos, and chameleons by nature.
He's clearly referring to the people that he expected that he could trust. Those that were in his inner circle at the time, and he says of all of this people, it was this Oga Oghiadame that he could trust. This your attempt at quickly changing the narrative is quite lame. It's GEJ's story. Let him tell it as he wishes.
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 10:55am On Sep 04, 2025
MichaelSokoto:
Baba leave wetin dem write put 4 moto bodi enter moto go where u dey go!

u got my msg clean & clear
cool
I've shared with you a ChatGPT breakdown above.

But let me ask, why do you keep getting yourself banned? cheesy Getting caught over and over for the same behaviour? Are you smart? cheesy cheesy
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 10:50am On Sep 04, 2025
MichaelSokoto:
Baba leave wetin dem write put 4 moto bodi enter moto go where u dey go!

u got my msg clean & clear
cool
Neither your message nor the "moto" make sense. I'm just weary.

I asked ChatGPT to break it down for you:

Based on the facts of the Kwam1 case, it would not technically qualify as a hijack under either Nigerian or international aviation law.

Here’s why:

1. Definition of Hijacking

Under Section 402 of the Nigerian Criminal Code and The Hague Convention (1970) on unlawful seizure of aircraft, hijacking involves:

Unlawfully seizing control of an aircraft in flight.

Using force, threat, or intimidation to divert, control, or hold the aircraft and its occupants against their will.

Typically motivated by political, criminal, or extortionist aims.

2. Kwam1’s Conduct

He refused to comply with airline security rules about liquids.

He allegedly poured liquid on crew/security staff and temporarily obstructed the aircraft from taxiing by walking onto the tarmac.

However:

He never took control of the plane.

There was no weapon or threat to passenger safety inside the aircraft once it departed.

His actions delayed the flight, but did not amount to seizure or diversion.

3. Correct Classification

His behavior fits more with:

Disruptive passenger conduct (sometimes called unruly passenger or Level 3 interference under ICAO standards).

Possible criminal charges for trespass, assault, or endangering public safety—but not hijacking.

4. Why the Minister Called It a “Hostage Situation”

The Aviation Minister described it as “akin to a hostage situation” likely for political emphasis—to stress the seriousness of disrupting flight operations—rather than as a precise legal classification.

So, while his actions were illegal and dangerous, labeling it as a hijack would be inaccurate under aviation and criminal law.

If you like, I can break down the actual criminal charges that might apply to Kwam1 under Nigerian law instead of hijacking. Would you like me to do that?


How else can I help you?
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 10:36am On Sep 04, 2025
SpatialKing:
Just like Tinubu Peter is free to decide what to comment on or not to..


Tinubu should also address his Yoruba people misbehaving
Did anyone say he is not free? We are also free to observe his trbalistic patterns, aren't we?
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 10:35am On Sep 04, 2025
MichaelSokoto:
as I see the opata wey u reply me wit I Jez dey vex cos I dey inside ban and couldn't reply immediately!

Eeyaaa!
since wen dem born u com reach now, person wey wan use bare hands catch a moving plane, nobi die the pesin wan die put for airliner neck?

issda wan not suicide?

Abi na block him wan block d plane so as to collect him own owo mi da like him colleagues for oshodi soké park?

Baba dey leave sentiments out of reasoning...

ya ogbeni wanted to hijack our plane, period!

u say ya kini kon are smart naa... abi 😷
Is it because you have no point at all that you must resort to this so-called pidgin, which appears more like gibberish? Why can't you write like you went to school??
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 8:22am On Sep 04, 2025
AjegunleBoy:
change ya pants pls... 😷
Let the adults talk young man.
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 8:20am On Sep 04, 2025
MichaelSokoto:
since jagabanomics has made it difficult for u to be buying data dis dayz to extensively use d Internet, I have helped u to Google it!

hope u saw d suicide part?
So how did he take control of the aircraft or you don't know the meaning of the words you're reading, Mr Sokoto?

And I saw the suicide part... Was there a suicide attack?
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 8:02am On Sep 04, 2025
MichaelSokoto:
Kwam 1 case was minor airplane altercation abi na hijacking?

Habaaa!

Make una stop bn sentimental naa?
How does one unarmed individual hijack a plane from outside the plane? Do you know the meaning of hijack?
Politics › Re: What Does Achieving Revenue Target Mean To Nigerians? - Peter Obi by SmartyPants(m): 8:01am On Sep 04, 2025
SpatialKing:
Why must he say anything?

Is he the president of Finland?

Tinubu has not said anything about The Igbo traders killed by Yoruba boys in Mandalas Lagos state..

Tinubu has not said anything about the the Yoruba man who rped an old woman in London
Does Tinubu comment on such matters at all? He doesn't and never has. The point is that Obi comments on petty issues whenever there is a chance to use these issues to rile up the polity but he never will when it concerns his own people. We all understand the game he's playing.
Politics › Re: NUPRC Publishes Full List Of Oil Block Owners In Nigeria by SmartyPants(m): 7:55am On Sep 04, 2025
gerrardomendes:
Show us the names of the individuals. Anything short of that na scam
This is ignorance speaking. A company is a legal person. There is no reason for them to publish the names of specific individuals. If you're so curious, you can go to CAC and for a small fee they will reveal the individuals behind any company to you.
Foreign Affairs › Re: Calls For Angela Rayner (UK Deputy Prime Minister) To Be Sacked Over Stamp Duty by SmartyPants(m): 6:43pm On Sep 03, 2025
Not one word in this opening post describes what Rayner actually did wrong:

Everyone must pay their tax, Rayner told Tories

When Labour was in opposition Angela Rayner would often be outspoken on the need for everyone to pay their taxes (Laurence Sleator writes).

“Every pound of tax that is not delivered to the exchequer damages our public services,” she said last year as she called for a Conservative cabinet minister to be sacked over his tax affairs.

After it was revealed in March 2023 that Rishi Sunak, then the prime minister, paid HMRC £1.05 million from earnings of £4.77 million over the past three years, at a tax rate of 22 per cent , Rayner said: “Rishi Sunak’s much-delayed return reveals a Tory tax system where the PM pays a far lower tax rate than working people, who face the highest tax burden in 70 years.”

While chancellor, Nadhim Zahawi faced claims he tried to avoid tax and then had to pay it back. Rayner said: “The position of the man who was until recently in charge of the UK’s tax system and who this prime minister appointed Conservative Party Chair is now untenable.

“It’s time for Rishi Sunak to put his money where his mouth is and dismiss Nadhim Zahawi from his cabinet.”



We are left to guess, albeit correctly, that she must not have paid her own taxes. Let's do better.
Politics › Re: Banditry: I Have To Create State Police, Says Tinubu by SmartyPants(m): 4:15pm On Sep 03, 2025
ElevationD:
Can you tell me the issues as you see them?
A police force that is not genuinely motivated to serve. And it's not because of money because these officers still rake in windfall from extortion. The fundamental issue is a lack of innate motivation.

When you are tasked with protecting your own people, you won't need to be paid millions to sit up and do your job proactively.

This is more so the case when we are dealing with security threats that are invasive in nature (which means they are not from the local area).

Would you expect, for example, a Fulani officer to diligently go after Fulani terrorists in a town in Bayelsa the same way an officer from that town would?

So there is a lack of innate motivation in most cases, and in certain extreme cases, there is even the presence of active malice towards host communities. Money cannot solve these issues.
Politics › Re: Banditry: I Have To Create State Police, Says Tinubu by SmartyPants(m): 10:41am On Sep 03, 2025
ElevationD:
Creating state police when the present Federal police is understaffed and under financed. Should first things not get first things first? We have all sorts of people in different uniforms, yet banditry, kidnapping and other forms of crimes continue unabated? Why waste the resources when we all know the issues?

Please pay the police internationally accepted rates, equip them and get more men employed into the force. Get more people into the armed forces, find them properly, encourage them and see the difference.
You have misidentified the issues.
Christianity Etc › Re: Archaeologists Discover 1,600 Year Old Mural Of Jesus In Egypt by SmartyPants(m): 7:28pm On Sep 02, 2025
SarcasticWords:
They told us that Christianity came from the white man for two reasons:

To make us feel indebted.

To destroy our self-image, making us think all Africans were pagans and uncivilized, living like uncontacted tribes in the bush.

But the Bible shows otherwise:

In Acts, during Pentecost, people from many nations heard the good news in their own languages and carried it back to their lands.

The same book also records that Philip preached to a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians.

This proves two things:

Christianity did not begin its spread from Europe.

Ethiopia had a queen, showing that not all Africans lived primitively.
Who exactly is the they that told you this? The white man certainly never did - he always told you Jesus was a Jew. So who is this they? Why do black people have this compulsive need for finger-pointing?
Sports › Re: DeadLine Day: Samuel Chukwueze To Fulham, Boniface To Werder Bremen On Loan by SmartyPants(m): 4:27am On Sep 02, 2025
histemple:
How then did Boniface pass the medical at Werder Bremen after failing same at Milan?
That's like aasking why one girl agreed to date you when another girl said no. He has an issue with his knees. AC Milan refused to take the risk but Bremen don't mind. You may also observe that he is only going on loan to Bremen so its not the same level of risk at all.
Politics › Re: How Osinbajo Clashed With DSS Over Sowore’s Detention by SmartyPants(m): 10:14am On Sep 01, 2025
SmartPolician:
You have a big comprehension problem.
You should tell your neighbour to help you read the text you quoted.


BTW, in the United States, where we copied federation from, the VP is the senate president. That way, the person can have something to do in office and not wait for the president to assign him/her tasks.
cheesy My dear friend, which part of your empty statement did I supposedly misunderstand? Well I showed my neighbour o, and he said you are an empty fellow (which I quarrelled with him over), and asked me why I am wasting time arguing with you. Well, I am here for the youth, so I don't mind.

As to the reasonable part of your post, the VP in Nigeria also holds statutory offices. He presides over the NEC. In terms of acting as a counter-balance to an ineffective president, is that not much more relevant than presiding over lawmakers?
Politics › Re: How Osinbajo Clashed With DSS Over Sowore’s Detention by SmartyPants(m): 9:59am On Sep 01, 2025
SmartPolician:
For Osinbajo, a professor of law, to watch Buhari, a former general with a questionable O'level certificate, destroy Nigeria and the former couldn't do anything to fix things shows how useless a VP office is in Nigeria.
Please can you share with us, where in the world the office of the VP has power to "do something to fix things."

Empty.
Christianity Etc › Re: Kumuyi Abolishes 6-month Mandatory Courtship For Church Members by SmartyPants(m): 7:53am On Sep 01, 2025
Tohsynetita1:
What he meant is 6 months is not enough to court.
There's nothing in what he said that suggests that's what he meant. That may be your own interpretation.
Christianity Etc › Re: Kumuyi Abolishes 6-month Mandatory Courtship For Church Members by SmartyPants(m): 1:21am On Sep 01, 2025
Dandsome:
Many relationships have been scattered cos of these rules long before now
What kind of relationship would be scattered by 6 months courtship?
Sports › Re: Emmanuel Dennis: Notingham Forest Terminate Contract Of Super Eagles Star by SmartyPants(m): 12:12pm On Aug 31, 2025
PlutoChief:
Where has he been all this time?

I guess he already terminated himself before the club does.
I watched one interview one year after Dennis signed. It was Dennis and Awoniyi in the interview and Dennis was already speaking with a British accent while Awoniyi maintained his deep Nigerian accent. It was at that moment that I knew Dennis would not make much of his career. Clearly, he was already carried away by the idea of belonging to a certain class. A man who is not confident enough to stand in the shade of his own shadow will arrive nowhere.
Health › Re: Jogging Vs Brisk Walking: Which Exercise Is Better For Your Heart? by SmartyPants(m): 11:16am On Aug 31, 2025
You are confusing yourself. Spot jogging is different from proper jogging and the benefits are not the same.
Politics › Re: Navy Jails Officer Over Sexual Relationship With Colleague’s Wife by SmartyPants(m): 11:14am On Aug 31, 2025
Sheuns:
What do you mean it’s criminal in the north and civil in the south?

You used “legally married”.

Legally married means going to the registry and binding the union by Nigerian laws. Is the law up north different from the one down south?

Except for shariah law that’s different, marriage laws in Nigeria are same in north and south.
Yes. Nigeria has two separate criminal law systems at the federal level: The penal code and and the criminal code. And even at that, states can make their own criminal laws withing a certain limit.
Politics › Re: Navy Jails Officer Over Sexual Relationship With Colleague’s Wife by SmartyPants(m): 11:12am On Aug 31, 2025
izicooo:
i'm really sorry for sounding indifferent here, please pardon my mannerz; what i'm trying to understand is, how two adults having sexual relationship, how is that suppose to be an issue? if this was a case of rape or defilement it would have been understandable. Them dey always tell men, mount your guard (financially, bedroom & in several other aspect) or else person go wipe your wife.
The armed forces do not live by the civilian code of ethics. When you are going to war with a colleague by your side, you must have absolute trust in that person to have your back.

If you can't keep your brother's wife safe from yourself, can you then keep him safe from an enemy? You are already his enemy. You will likely even betray him to the enemy in order to keep his wife


Even if you can't understand this, at least you must be able to see that a man who suffers such an injustice with access to guns is a grave danger to the society?
Sports › Re: Top 10 Nigerian Athletes With Dual Nationality by SmartyPants(m): 4:08pm On Aug 30, 2025
There are at least 10 in the Super Eagles alone, and five who play for England, and you're talking about Jordan Ibe. Try to learn this work very well so you won't waste your readers' time
Travel › Re: Historic Retirement For Capt Neil With Son As FO And ATC @ Toronto Airport by SmartyPants(m): 10:22am On Aug 30, 2025
To have a great, distinguished career and raise two children to undertake similarly distinguished careers. Not to mention working in the same field and one even working alongside you. This is what it means to be successful as a man. This is what it means to build societies.
Business › Re: 6 Nigerian-founders Made The List Of Billion-dollar Companies In USA by SmartyPants(m): 7:34am On Aug 29, 2025
DoctorStanley:
You are obviously the one going on and on and you are the one who started it all by writing the nonsense below when the two lists are EXACTLY the same - except that the original list by Slytiger is more comprehensive
I asked what your point is and you just typed up random words and attached a picture with random things highlighted huh

Now note this:

1. What you call the original list is from three years ago.
2. Companies can gain or lose value.
3. Andela, for example, which is on the so-called original list, is definitely not worth up to a billion today.

What you are doing is like going back to 2014 to cite a newspaper report that says Goodluck Jonathan is the president of Nigeria.

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