₦airaland Forum

Segzy19:
Sad that no one really talks about the teacher that was beheaded.....

I wonder how his wife and loved would feel right now....

Not just these ones, they aren't even talking about the officer that lost his life during the rescue operation.

Beautifulday:
This kind of things happen in a country with criminal government.

There is no online scheme that can't be traced. Government is either involved or dangerously ignorant

Government officials shouldn't waste their time tracing any stupid scheme. People have the choice to be stupid. The last time government/CBN warned them about MMM, many of them asked government to stay away and out of their business.

There is a need for every Southerner to keep an eye on this Zulum. What is his interest in enlisting these murderous Boko Haram terrorists in the Nigerian Army.

If it is Nigeria's state policy to enlist repentant agitators/terrorists, then the country should damn better allow ipobs, and other agitators to enlist in the Nigerian Army.

Dalohad:
If Nigeria is a working place where laws are respected, every heads of state VIOs where their officers are still on the streets, should be arrested and sent to prison for contempt of court..

The courts have told you to leave the roads and inspect the vehicles in your office but you have adamantly refused due to gluttony..

Each state has a law that setup VIO. Hence, the judgement in FCT VIO versus Barrister Marshall Abubakar may not be binding on VIO personnel in other states. Citizens may need to similar bring law suites against their state VIOs.

KennethOkonkwo:
Even,the funds cant be redirected without constitutional amendment.Subsidy removal means more money in the FAAC not FG account.Any money in the FAAC must be shared based on the country constitutional revenue sharing formular not base on the wims and caprices of the president.

You are absolutely correct. However, an attempt at amending the constitution regarding the revenue sharing formula should have have been made after the removal. This could have redirected the subsidy savings into more impactful areas for the masses.

Angelfrost:
The truth is... 2012, under Jonathan was the best and most convenient time period to remove this subsidy.

If Jonathan had been supported by everyone, including the opposition, we would be way past the necessary curve by now.

What Tinubu did along with Buhari, Soyinka, and others will never be forgiven in the history of this nation's economy.

So, Mr. Obi, leave this talk... It's always easier said than done.

There is no easy way to remove subsidy now... None at all.

You are absolutely correct, the organized way Obi is proposing is why Jonathan's subsidy removal attempt failed. There is no organized way at removing that cancer. While, one agrees that the savings from the removal could have been better managed in terms of transparency and funds redirection.

So, I agree with you that the subsidy removal was needed and there was no better time and way to carry it out.

freeDR:
The Scottish are jolly good drinkers. They have a whole type of alcohol named after them. Then follows the Irish, French and Russians.

Where would you place the Germans, in your ranking?

kinibigdeal:
Meaning NDC will also be disqualified

This should not affect NDC, because NDC is a newly registered party. It can only affect it, going forward, if it fails to meet the criteria for continued existence. For instance, if it fails to achieve 25% in any state in any 2027 presidential election, it may be re-registered before the 2031 presidential election.

Dpzeewonder:
If you like don't hustle and make good money..... You will understand later, see the way they open this man's face to the public as he is not a bigman criminal.

They are able to make his face go public because he has been convicted of the crime and he is now a confirmed criminal. It would have been different if he was still being tried in which case the rule of "presumed innocence" makes it unethical to show his face to the public.

Harnny:
Are you jocking?... as long as the companies are local, I dont care.

Sadly, the poster you quoted wasn't joking. Some of these folks are so hateful that they don't mind to cut their nose to spite their face! How can a foreign owned company that refuses to employ Nigerians be left to enjoy exclusivity in such an important domain?

Exousiang01:
It is not possible for children to be taken out without prior notice from their parents.
Even in Nigeria parents still get consent forms before children are taken on field trips or excision not to talk of the west. You can't take a child anywhere without the parents giving consent

Read slowly what I wrote and you might be able to draw an helpful inference.

Yes, it is standard practice to pre-inform the parents about where the kids will visit during an excursion. However, the parents might not have been told ahead the activities that the students would engage in. Except, you have facts that say that the parents were informed before hand that the children would have to pray Islamically in the mosque, you have to cut them some slacks.

For instance, sometimes ago one of my kids was taken on a field trip to a bacon and cooked ham production facility. Of course, I consented before they went. However, the child declined to eat the bacon they offered her because she didn't eat pork back then. So in this instance, I knew where they were visiting but I was not informed that the visit might include having to eat pork based products otherwise I would have advised them of her aversion to such.

Macphenson:
It's an amendment, they don't need him to sign.

Under the Nigerian constitution, the presidents needs to sign a constitutional amendment bill before it becomes law. Section 9 of the constitution of the FRN guides the process.

Exousiang01:
Then he shouldn't have join the scouts on the visit, his parents got and signed the consent form. They knew exactly where the kid is going, yet they gave their consent and instructed the child to disrespect the mosque.
It is uncivilized

While I share your sentiment that the boy had no business in the mosque if his parents were told upfront everything that the visit would entail.

However, on a second thought, I think it is equally possible that the parents were not pre-informed that the boys would have to pray in the Islamic way during their visit. If this is the case, the boy is well within his right to have exercised his freedom not to pray in such manner.

malali:
Oh so now you can analyse, you suddenly have working brain cells.......lol.
I am sure you know you need to have a job to be able to pay taxes, unemployed people dont pay taxes. Has tinubu created 10,000 jobs in his 3 years in power ?
You speak on only crude oil as revenue, what about the solid minerals ? How much has been spent on Ajaokuta steel ? What about all the agriculture he has been buying tractors for over 3 years for ?
Truth be said, Tinubu is learning on the Job, He has no clue how to create these opportunities he promised.

Building a road from sokoto to badagry ? To sell more goat meat i guess.....lol
Tinubu is worse than Buhari. He is selling crude oil at $100 per barrel.
Buhari sold crude oil at $30 per barrel
Buhari paid petrol and forex subsidy
Buhari did not collect all these crazy loans
Tinubu is not paying any subsidy,he is collecting crazy loans, we can see what he is doing with the loans, not even the power grid is reliable.
When we talk you mention Obi, who cares about Obi ?

Tinubu has no clue what he is doing !!! He is way over his head !!!

This is not an attempt to defend Tinubu but your data are contestable.

For instance, the CBN means and ways that Buhari abused is one of the loans you have not stated. Additionally, a lot of the forward sales contract of crude oil that happened under Buhari is such that the government of the day can't earn from some of the crude oil that is being lifted today. Thereby, denying the government of the ability to earn the current rates on the crude oil.

ponishah:
I have never heard of anyone being beheaded in South Africa.

South Africa has been labelled as the murder capital of the world severally. However, this does not mean it should be tolerated in Nigeria.

I have never heard that a south African was caught or sentenced or executed in a foreign country for drug trafficking and dealing.

The fact that you never heard does not mean that it does not happen. The internet is awash with such cases.

I have not heard that south African students are butchering their schoolmates.

South Africa suffers from its own fair share of violence in schools and the records are available on the internet too

I have not heard that south Africans are swindling everyone worldwide. I have not heard that south Africans are butchering their citizens and selling their body parts.

In fairness to the South Africans, statistics show that Nigerians are more guilty of the stated offences here, regrettably.

So, generally speaking whilst Nigerians need to make conscious efforts to be better humans, South Africa is not without it's share of criminalities that demand attention.

ponishah:
What are you saying now?
We do worse than them in Nigeria.
Criminal brutal killing in Nigeria is on a daily.
A beautiful student nurse was raped slaughtered in her room by two men in Imo State.

"Criminal brutal killing" in Nigeria is not anywhere close to what obtains in South Africa. It may shock you to know that the crime rate in South Africa at 74% is higher than Nigeria's at 66% despite the rise in terrorism in Nigeria.

Both countries need to do better in terms of curbing criminal acts.

Stephen0mozzy:
Wow.... 2002. Respect Sir.

Thanks for your good wishes.

UW sir. May God bless your handwork and I hope to see you at the top soon.

Stephen0mozzy:
Thank you Chief.

Your last paragraph actually just validated the stance I've always taken. I'm more of a builder guy than dependence on corporate jobs with the skills, I've just not had the discipline, i think, to complete any of my attempts at a startup (SaaS).

You're right about AI being a blessing too, but not so much for entry level guys as their own "tasks" are now being automated out and companies are not very keen of training new hires either.

Well, I may I have to disagree a bit with you with respect to AI not being a blessing to new hires. When I considered where I was some 25 years ago, I think this generation is blessed. For context, I became a certified java programmer in 2002 and for me debugging even some issues back then took too much of my time. Compare that to now when, you can easily use AI to trace your source of error.

These days it is easier for a junior developer to churn out standard grade code, if they know what they are doing. My advise generally is for developers to see themselves as solution providers. It is easier to attract money when you are solving people's problems.

I wish you all the best.

Stephen0mozzy:
Thank you my good Sir, that would be greatly appreciated.

I think, evidenced by the current shake up in the TECH industry - layoffs and stuff, with some new startups that would often spring up to absorb skilled developers backpedalling due to the uncertainty about AI's disruption - the demand has dropped big time, and the competition is even worse than it has ever been.

Not to even talk about the phantom jobs, 7 rounds of interviews that ends with automated rejection mails.

I guessed right as to what the discouragements could be. However, permit me to advise you to stay strong. Actually, AI is a blessing to skilled developer and not a curse, as it (AI) facilitates Rapid application development.

Now, my advise is for you to learn to identify pain points of existing tech solutions and try to build products that solve those problems. That way, you can have products to market rather than waiting for that employment offer. Your products are more likely to earn you revenue and job offers faster.

Stephen0mozzy:
Man... You have a beast of a laptop.

Now when it comes to skills, there are three types of people.

1. The creative
2. The analytical
3. The Seller

If you are on the creative spectrum, I'll recommend you go for motion graphics and a pinch of 3d - specifically for building product demos using After Effects and maybe Cinema4D.

If you're more on the analytical and number crunching side... I'm probably going to err on the side of caution and suggest Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning or start from Data Analysis for Financial/Business Analytics.

If you're the seller personality, I'd suggest you master how to use and help people manage CRM Software - Case in point GoHighLevel - you can actually charge people good money in dollars to help them set up their CRM, Automation Workflow, Funnels and Landing page, there's a ton of them - especially now that everybody is a founder or coach selling one thing or the other.


Personally, when I took this kind of decision about 4 years ago, I went into Programming (Became a MERN Developer); but the programming world is very volatile now and not very promising, especially for entry level.

Wishing you the best.... And while you're flexible in how long you want to spend in learning and waiting till it pays, it helps to tie the goal to a timeline too.

I like your insights but pray tell, why do you think volatility is a barrier to your skill set as a full stack developer. Perhaps, I may have one or two pieces of advice that might be helpful.

2special:
So why are they not giving dividends

Post its 2025 balance-sheet cleanup, FirstHoldco’s Q1 2026

The report refers to only the first financial quarter (2026 Q1). Corporate actions such as dividend pay out are usually carried out after Q4, being the financial year end.

spiceadole:
Men don't like court marriage so that their wives does not have a share of their properties , if the marriage goes south.

But a prenup is sufficient to address such fears.

udemzyudex:
Traditional marriage do give marriage certificates.

I hope they did in this instance.

FortCavazosKnox:
The guy is the loser here now then 😂🤣

It is sad, but it is what it is!

FortCavazosKnox:
This woman is not moving with sense and tact, all the guy needs is to forward their marriage certificate to USCIS. She will be be arrested immediately then deported!

Unfortunately, it seems like there was no court marriage in this case. Because, I have only read about their traditional marriage.

Nnamdipapa:
Yes, you make a good points but, with all the above, more people are still miserable over there than in Nigeria.
You do realize Nigeria is still a developing country and, we still have a long way to go but despite all that, we have it good here in Nigeria.

On band A, I have lights for about 22 hours in a day and when the light is off, the kids go to play table tennis or basketball in the compound, don’t forget we have good weather all year round in Nigeria. This week there was a mass shooting in BC Canada leading to death of 10 students. This goes to show nowhere is perfect or totally without one form of problem or the other.8

The more you have this conversation with Nigerians who haven't had the first hand experience of some things that motivated your decision the more you get into needless arguments. I guess it is better for people to go have their own experience and make their decisions based on that.

OredoPikin2:
Then stop coming out to dish lies.
Abi una think say na goats dey read una posts or comments abi?
U guys should be careful pls
this is not 1966 were all your lies goes unchallenged

Which lies did I dish? Is it a lie that waiting time has been an issue with NHS services or is it a lie that UK medical services is superior to Nigeria, even though one may experience delay while accessing it? Kindly quote the post where I told a lie regarding this issue and I will issue an apology but if you are unable to do that, you owe me an apology for accusing me wrongfully.

For context, you may need to refer to my original post regarding the issue so that you can point to the "lie" therein:

Whoever the op is, I sympathize with him in advance as I expect that some people would insult him based on their limited knowledge of the subject.

Waiting time is one of the prime problems of NHS aside work overload for employees. This is understandable because health care was designed to be free in the UK, although there are some cases that require out-of-pocket expenses. This free access and limited NHS budget creates a situation where service users have to stay on the queue, sometimes for long period.

When you contrast it with the speed with which you can access medical care in Nigeria you begin to appreciate what you enjoy back home. However, the upside is that you can enjoy top-notch medical care at almost no cost at the point of access in the UK. So, I believe that it is a trade-off and one has to weigh the pro and cons based on one's peculiar situation.

OredoPikin2:
Buhari spent almost half of his 8yrs in the UK seeking medicare
Tinubu is equally doing the same in France and beating Buhari record🤣🤣
Abeg who una think say una dey deceive self these APC people?😂

I believe that the UK space is not forbidden for you. When next you catch malaria in any part of the world, please hop on an aeroplane and go for your treatment in UK just like late Buhari and Tinubu. Is anyone restraining you?

OredoPikin2:
Meanwhile Tinubu is running to France every 3days for same medicare🤣🤣
Keep deceiving yourselves and thinking u are deceiving others

Did you read where I mentioned that the advantage of healthcare in UK is the quality access at almost no cost or not. Or are you just incapable of comprehending little things? If Tinubu goes to UK "every 3 days" that is because he is paying for private medical care at a premium cost that many ordinary citizens may not be able to afford!

If you didn't understand, the op and myself talked about public health services!

uche87:
On the 30th of January, 2026, I fell ill while at work. After struggling through the rest of the day, I returned home to rest. When my condition worsened, I decided to visit the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit at my local hospital.

I arrived at exactly 10:13 pm. Within a minute, I was booked in by the receptionist and asked to wait. Shortly after, a nurse called me, took my details, and recorded my vital signs. I was then asked to return to the waiting area to see a doctor. That moment never came.

Instead, I was called twice more by nurses to repeat the same observations, each time urged to remain patient. A notice board nearby displayed the previous day’s estimated waiting time — seven hours. My ordeal lasted until 9:30 am the following morning. I never saw a doctor. Eventually, a specialist nurse briefly attended to me, offered verbal reassurance, handed me a leaflet, and asked me to leave. The A&E waiting area became a temporary shelter. People turned chairs into makeshift beds. Others left in frustration. The environment was chaotic. Police officers intermittently brought in injured suspects in handcuffs, adding to the tension and discomfort.

As I sat there, exhausted and unwell, my thoughts drifted back to Nigeria. I remembered a day in 2016 at a government hospital in FESTAC Town, Lagos, when my condition deteriorated so badly that the crowd insisted I jump the queue. I also recalled how, at the private hospital attached to the multinational firm I worked for, I could see a doctor within five to ten minutes.
Now, in the UK, seeing a doctor sometimes feels like winning a lottery. According to The Sun, 554,018 patients in England waited 12 hours or more in A&E in 2025. Data from the Nuffield Trust shows that during peak periods, over 61,000 patients per month experienced 12+ hour waits — around 11% of all emergency admissions. At a minimum of 12 hours per patient, this amounts to over 6.6 million hours lost annually.

Unsurprisingly, many Nigerians living in the UK now travel back home for major surgeries and treatments. It is often faster, cheaper, and far less stressful.

While the quality of healthcare in the UK and Nigeria may appear worlds apart, few imagined that Nigeria would one day serve as a medical lifeline for those living abroad.

Beyond healthcare, the economic reality is equally sobering. Many Nigerians sold land, cars, and family properties to relocate. Today, they struggle under hyper-inflated rents, rising energy bills, and high living costs, barely staying afloat.
Securing a white-collar job often feels like requiring divine intervention. The system appears structured to trap certain groups within physically demanding, low-paying roles. Warehouse work destroys the body. The care sector drains emotional and physical strength. Mental health support work, though meaningful, exposes workers to extreme violence and psychological trauma.

NHS England records over 100,000 violent incidents against healthcare staff annually — an average of 285 assaults every day. In June 2025, Irene Wanjiru Mbugua, a 48-year-old care worker originally from Kenya, was tragically killed by a patient in the West Midlands. While rare, such incidents reveal the severe dangers frontline healthcare workers face daily.

Social conditions are no less concerning. 21% of people in the UK — about 14.2 million individuals — live in poverty. Without social safety nets, this figure would skyrocket. Additionally, 24 million people receive at least one form of state benefit, including pensions, disability support, and working-age benefits, highlighting the scale of economic vulnerability.

In terms of safety, police recorded 53,047 knife-related offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025. While the UK remains safer than Nigeria overall, rising violent crime remains deeply troubling.

For parents seeking better opportunities for their children, another danger lurks — hard drugs. Government data shows 16,212 children aged 17 and below were in drug and alcohol treatment between April 2024 and March 2025, a 13% increase from the previous year. This underscores the growing exposure of young people to harmful substances.

Meanwhile, in Nigeria, social life thrives. Community bonds remain strong. Laughter is louder. Life feels fuller. In contrast, the UK work culture often reduces life to an endless cycle of work, bills, exhaustion, and survival. Tragically, between 2024 and 2025, several Nigerian students and workers collapsed and died in the UK due to stress and exhaustion, including cases in South Wales and Hertfordshire.

I’ll end on a lighter note. The stress levels here are so intense that almost everyone snores like old power generators. Many refuse to believe it — until shown video evidence. This was never the case back home.

The hustle has shifted gears. And this one runs at a dangerously high speed.


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Whoever the op is, I sympathize with him in advance as I expect that some people would insult him based on their limited knowledge of the subject.

Waiting time is one of the prime problems of NHS aside work overload for employees. This is understandable because health care was designed to be free in the UK, although there are some cases that require out-of-pocket expenses. This free access and limited NHS budget creates a situation where service users have to stay on the queue, sometimes for long period.

When you contrast it with the speed with which you can access medical care in Nigeria you begin to appreciate what you enjoy back home. However, the upside is that you can enjoy top-notch medical care at almost no cost at the point of access in the UK. So, I believe that it is a trade-off and one has to weigh the pro and cons based on one's peculiar situation.