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He spoke well.

CrystalTiger:
Northern states would have money(budget) to sponsor mass wedding of over 2000 couples, there's one of 3000 couples expected soon in Kano..

And I ask, if person no get rubbers to take marry, how e wn take dey train pikin? Abi government go marry wife for man, still instruct am make e no dey lash him woman? You see ordinary shoemaker with seven kids and e still dey eye second wife..

It all comes down to government at all levels..See money that northern governors spend on Hajj and public marriages and it's like x10 of what they spend on education, health, industrialization..

They have money to spend on hajj and mass weddings, but they can't lift their people from extreme poverty.

If them explain Nigeria give you and you understand you don craze walahi.

The kind of things always happening in the North will never make sense to a rational mind.
People no get funds you dey sponsor marriage give them.

Nigerians think getting married or having children is a joke. No planning.

Misplaced priorities is the bane of this country.

lawani:
Nobody can employ over fifty people gainfully and permanently in Nigeria with an investment less than around 100 million naira.

Cap.

Kaczynski:
Nigeria has the national counter terrorism strategy, the multinational joint task force, the safe schools initiative all fine on paper. But paper doesn’t stop bullets.

Here’s what would work if they actually executed it, Boko Haram’s funding comes from ransom, looting and shadowy sponsors. Freeze their accounts, track their cash like a forensic auditor and prosecute the financiers. Nigeria’s banking system is about as transparent as a black box recorder in a plane crash. The Nigerian military is a joke. Corruption, poor training, soldiers selling their weapons to the enemy. You need better leadership, better pay, better equipment. But good luck getting the brass to stop embezzling funds. You need real human intelligence not just SIGINT that gets ignored because some general is too busy siphoning off oil money. Embed agents, infiltrate cells and act before attacks happen. But Nigeria’s intelligence agencies are about as leaky as a sieve. They should learn from French intelligence community.

Boko Haram thrives because of disillusionment. You need to give locals a reason to resist them everything from jobs and education. A kid with a PS5 won't join Boko haram. Nigeria’s government is about as good at this as a goldfish running a marathon.

I don't know if it's just me but this looks like something lifted from chatgpt and co.

Nigerians will one day realize election has consequences.

Roland17:
Also, I tell people, the older you get, I'd say over 40, the slimmer/ lighter you should get because your bones can't support as much weight as we get older. Once you are at 40, start making intentional effort to maintain a very healthy weight and that comes down to what and how you eat/ drink. The slimmer/ lighter, the better at or over 40 for men.

In Nigeria, If you get slim people start thinking you're hungry or abusing drugs/alcohol.

Fat= wealth.
Slim= extreme sapa, or drug/alcohol abuse.

BlueRayDick:
What does she mean by miscommunication?

She even made a follow-up video to the first one I posted and in that followup she alleged that they were told if they want to arrange for transportation themselves (as the deceased family), the army said all his benefits will be forfeited..More like the army will wash it hands off the guy's matter.

So she's saying the initial claim was false and the follow up video too was false?

If anybody is threatening her and her family she had better talk.... If not she will be branded a liar for life

Knowing the Nigerian Army, they've probably threatened her or bribed her with crumbs.

raumdeuter:
Is it that people are getting more diagnozed than before

Maybe say in years back, people were having this disease but they do not have the means to diagnoze am correctly and they will just put it under died after a brief illness

Or something has changed about our way of life compared to before which exposes us to cancer risk than before

I think maybe a combination of the 2 factors

Probably.

The rate people are dying to breast cancer in this country is something else.

What is happening? lately all these illnesses that we hardly heard about like 15-20 years ago, are now devastating everywhere in Nigeria.

[quote author=BlueRayDick post=139670053]When Elder talks about not really understanding the rationale behind young men still joining the army, it looks as if he's denigrating the memories of those young men fighting on the front lines to keep us safe.

However, on deeper reflection one can't but wonder what is really that thing motivating our bright young people to join the army in the corrupt state it is with selfish corrupt superiors heading our military.

The lady in the video below came online to reveal her brother recently died in active combat as a soldier and the army authorities are asking their family to pay N2m as cost of transporting his corpse to the family compound where they intend to bury him. To think their father was also a soldier before he died. And now they are being treated this way

I mean why will my father be a soldier and I will still join Nigerian army in its current state? From the environment of their home, it even shows their father didn't make much from his career as a soldier, so why did the son also join the job only to lose his life in such tragic way?

It now looks as if the male in their family just dey sacrifice their lives for naija wey no really care about them.

“Nigerians, I’m Heartbroken Right Now. My Brother, Who Has Served In The Nigerian Army Since He Was 20 Years Old, Has Died. Now, The Army Told Us They Cannot Bring His Body Home For Us Unless We Pay ₦2 Million. They Said If We Don’t Send The Money, They Won’t Bring Him Back For… pic.twitter.com/s2OCa4D2O4

— Somto Okonkwo (@General_Somto) June 10, 2026

I always say, there's no reason any sane person should join the Nigerian army.

Especially those people joining as normal recruits.
Pure waste of life. But then again, which life? The ones joining as recruits are already failures in life, so they have no other option. The guy the lady is talking about probably joined as a normal recruit.

BlueRayDick:
DSS has alerted Edo State government of potential mass kidnap of school children by Fulani terrorists.

The Edo state government in reaction has ordered immediate closure of government owned schools in the affected area. The students currently writing WAEC in the schools will however be allowed to write exams under strict security arrangements.

Omo! No be life we dey live for this country so o. Things has gotten to a point where students can't go to school like it's done in other countries.

What were you expecting?
The man promised to bring insecurity to the state during campaign and Edo folks still elected him.
Actions have consequences.

Ibime:
Population of Lagos - 20m

1% of 20m is 200,000
5% of 20m is 1m

Google says there are 7,200 dollar millionaires in the whole Nigeria

Let's assume there are even 20,000 since politicians and civil servants hide stolen loot

I will posit that $1m makes you top 0.1% in Lagos

This is good insight. This is why statistics is very important.
People in Lagos are too loud that is why it seems like $1m will not make you top 1%.

Thanks for this bro.

izzou:
China abeg!

😳

Low-key Nigeria poor oh, but when you see lifestyle portrayed on social media you'll think all Nigerians are billionaires. Meanwhile, there are still towns and lgas in Nigeria still in the 18th century.

raumdeuter:
I don think 2.2m Nigerians have over 1bn Naira. 2.2 bn is the population of a state

If I say Billionaire in Naira equals Dollar millionaire

According to my quick AI search

Top African Countries by Number of US-Dollar Millionaires
Rank Country Approx. Number of Millionaires
1 South Africa ~37,400
2 Egypt ~15,600
3 Nigeria ~8,200
4 Kenya ~7,200
5 Morocco ~6,800


If I say Nigerians worth $700k and above I think around 50,000 still a far cry from 2.2m

100M is a lot of money in Nigerian context when you consider the whole country, 100M might be water in Banana Island, but some states dey wey dem no go get reach 100 people resident there with 100m

Fact. 50,000 is a far cry sef in my opinion. I doubt there are up to 50k people living in Nigeria who have $700k.

raumdeuter:
This is true, Now imagine in a state like Ekiti, Gombe Ebonyi, Zamfara that number will even be less

Even $300k will allow you live like a king in these states.

Julian Alvarez for £150m?
These people are ruining football. Players like that shouldn't be going for more than 60m.

raumdeuter:
Millionaire in what currency

Depends on location too sha.

$1m will likely make you top 5% in Lagos and Abuja but definitely not top 1%, but in places like Delta, Bayelsa, Edo, Akwa Ibom etc, you're comfortably in the top 1% if you have $1m.

raumdeuter:
Everything matters, Even the way you speak. the way you look, the car you drive everything builds a mental profile of you

Normal. How they address someone wearing a quality senator and someone wearing casual jeans and sneakers will obviously be different.

If they stop you, and you're wearing casual wears,and also in all these cars that are mostly used by fraudsters, they must delay you. This is mostly a Benz and Lexus problem.

Roland17:
The annoying part is that there is no court order, just wake up once day and bulldoze someone's house. I mean, even if there is an existing law, there has to be a process for the application of the law. Our lack of strong institutions is a big problem for this country. We are just winging this thing called Nigeria at this point.

Yeah.

Amigoos1:
Kim Kardashian must be a demon under the sheets cause how else does she keep bagging these male celebrities. So Lewis Hamilton can't find someone younger to date it's an old hag like Kim.

There's a certain level people get to, and they stop caring about these things, so don't assume they're dating her because of how she perform during sex.

From my observation, I believe a lot of women who fvck their husbands up when they move to Europe and the US had been tolerating a lot when they were still in Nigeria.

​A lot of Nigerian men are quite abusive, they won't admit this in public, but it is more common than people think.
In Nigeria, these women tolerate all forms of abuse and can't respond or leave due to the extremely conservative nature of our society, and other factors. But when they move over to the UK, for example, and the husband tries to replicate that same abuse there, the wife will respond or leave because of resentment, and also because those factors that were hindering her no longer exist.

​The point I'm trying to make is, if you get to the root of a lot of these stories, the men are abusive. I know people who took their wives abroad and have no such stories, because they were never highhanded while here.

https://www.nairaland.com/8687343/stray-dog-throws-ebonyi-government

They don't eat dogs in ebonyi state?

raumdeuter:
Profiling is part of life and part of their work

A suit wearing or formally dressed family man looking Theflint1 will not look like a yahoo criminal (unless the crime is insider trading or corporate crimes) and will escape scrutiny versus a music blasting tattooed earing, Dada with sagging pants Theflint1

And many times they get it right.

I have heard news of 60 something year old women running drug cartels but they get away with scrutiny because they don't fit the profile of a criminal

The type of car also matters.

The guys should wake up to reality. It is not about whether you were in the party first. Can you win election?
Those guys have no clout to win any of those seats so they should shut up and allow people that can fight those seats home to contest.

Amoto94:
TROOPS OF OPERATION FANSAN YAMMA NEUTRALIZE TERRORIST, ARREST SUSPECTS AND DISRUPT CRIMINAL NETWORKS IN ZAMFARA STATE

Troops of Joint Task Force North West Operation FANSAN YAMMA have continued to record successes against terrorists and bandits across Zamfara State. On 5 June 2026, troops of Sector 2 Operation FANSAN YAMMA on fighting patrol to Birnin Tsaba and Tsanu villages in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area made contact with terrorists at Birnin Tsaba village. Following a firefight, troops neutralized one terrorist and recovered seven motorcycles.

On 6 June 2026, troops responded to a terrorist attack at Anguwar Sarkin Musulmi village in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area. The troops engaged the terrorists, forcing them to flee into the bush. Preliminary findings revealed that the terrorists had stolen personal belongings from residents before the arrival of troops. The incident further highlights the growing desperation of terrorist elements whose sources of sustenance and logistics have continued to come under pressure from sustained military operations.

On the same day, troops responded to reports of an attack on commuters along the Kaura Namoda–Zurmi Road. Investigations showed that terrorists ambushed two civilian vehicles between Jabanda and Dauran villages in Zurmi Local Government Area. Troops secured the area, evacuated injured victims for medical treatment and have continued efforts to track the terrorists and rescue any abducted passengers.

Also on 6 June 2026, troops of Sector 2 Operation FANSAN YAMMA conducting a fighting patrol to Tudun Wada and Dan Gulbi communities in Maru Local Government Area arrested eight suspected bandits at Tudun Wada. Troops recovered seven motorcycles, communication equipment, mobile phones, power banks, military-style uniforms and other items. A structure used by the suspects was also destroyed.

In a related operation, troops on 5 June 2026 arrested the suspected recipient of recently intercepted ammunition at Tupa village in Shinkafi Local Government Area following intelligence exploitation. The suspect is in custody and assisting ongoing investigations. Operation FANSAN YAMMA remains committed to sustaining offensive operations against terrorists and bandits and urges members of the public to continue providing timely and credible information to security agencies.

ALIYU DANJA
Lieutenant Colonel
Media Information Officer
Joint Task Force (North West) Operation FANSAN YAMMA
8 June 2026

You always fall hook, line, and sinker for every story the useless Nigerian army puts out.

TemporaryHansel:
Many many years ago I use to do typing for a police station. They'd come to where we work to beg one of us to go help them type and print stuff.

Police officers are stingy, when people render services to them they don't like to pay like normal people, so they get their own machines because of that and yet their own officers still won't do the work, they'll start looking for regular people to beg to help them.


I thought they've changed sha because this was like fifteen years back, but since you mentioned it does that mean they're still doing this?!

I always wondered why none of the police officers in the whole station could do the typing. Thinking about it now, I agree with you. The NPF is filled with illiterates, even the ones who claim to be educated still behave and think like illiterates, when I see some policemen I wonder why people like that are allowed in the force.

This is a serious security gap that probably wouldn't be allowed in serious countries btw. Because in the process of doing this I always saw confidential information and other stuff that are not supposed to be seen by outsiders, imagine I'm a snitch, I'll just go and sing the information to people who might need such info.

Kaczynski:
They probably picked a rand and made her scape G.


NPF investigation skill is purely F9. 90% of NPF cannot even type a letter on MS Word.

Many many years ago I use to do typing for a police station. They'd come to where we work to beg one of us to go help them type and print stuff.

Police officers are stingy, when people render services to them they don't like to pay like normal people, so they get their own machines because of that and yet their own officers still won't do the work, they'll start looking for regular people to beg to help them.


I thought they've changed sha because this was like fifteen years back, but since you mentioned it does that mean they're still doing this?!

I always wondered why none of the police officers in the whole station could do the typing. Thinking about it now, I agree with you. The NPF is filled with illiterates, even the ones who claim to be educated still behave and think like illiterates, when I see some policemen I wonder why people like that are allowed in the force.

BlueRayDick:
Once they release those guys, forget it the government is not going to hunt them down.

My fear is for those terrorists that get released not to cause bigger havoc later in the society having regained their freedom through this exchange of hostages.

I think after the dust settles on this issue; our government across various levels need to have some serious discussion and take some hard decisions.

1. They need to fast track and give priorities to terrorism cases in our law court. Let suspected terrorists be tried ASAP and let those found guilty be convicted within the shortest possible time.

2. Let's have a law that prescribes death sentence for convicted terrorists/bandits/kidnappers whether they killed their hostage or not. Make the crime a capital offence that attracts capital punishment

3. Let it be illegal for any state governor to refuse to sign the death warrants of convicted bandits/kidnappers/terrorists. Over time a lot of governors have refused to sign death warrants of prisoners in their state. I think the last governor that signed a prisoner's death warrant was Adams Oshiomole while he was governor.

Anybody who would not sign the death warrant of a prisoner should be impeached as governor. It should be a very solid ground for impeachment, and the house of assembly should not hesitate to declare a governor' seat vacant if he doesn't sign a convict's death warrant within a week or two.

I believe it's because these guys stay in prison for years, that's why their comrades will be emboldened to kidnap people and be using them as bargaining chip for their release like these yeye terrorists are doing with these Oyo victims.

This is a global problem. I've seen some Americans complaining about governors refusing to sign death warrants over there too , and I believe such action only serve to embolden killers. If you kill anybody you should also be killed, no two ways about it.

Excessive liberalism is causing many criminals and killers to be left alone instead of being brutally executed on life TV to serve as deterrent to other bastards.

The censoring on this forum is getting out of hand.