₦airaland Forum

BlueRayDick:
Omo 😥

Those Boko Haram guys are heartless. There should be no reason to ever rehabilitate and goddamn terrorist!

Just look at how they killed these soldiers 🤦‍♂️..... I can only imagine what this gruesome attack has done to mental health of the other soldiers that survived the attack

The useless Nigerian military is only active when harassing innocent non-gun wielding folks. What a shame!

Validated:
Self delusion is very much welcomed. Oboworei that will be begging Deltans after Presidential elections.

What has Remi got to offer Deltans as daughter of the state? NOTHING!
Go to Asaba and see the monument set up to honour Mariam Babangida. She occupied the same role as Remi. The former facilitated Capital in her Community, Remi cannot make Warri Capital. , rather sharing poverty. Yet you want Warri to vote APC.

What do you mean by remi cannot make warri capital?
That is the responsibility of the state house of assembly.

BlueRayDick:
I'm not saying they shouldn't negotiate, but the truth is the moment word spreads that the federal government of Nigeria was wiling to pay a billion naira, release terrorists, amend laws and provide vehicles for terrorists ; it's only a matter of time before more and more terrorist groups follow the same MO to bring the nation no it's knees over time.

The fact that these demands even leaked is a failure of security and intelligence.

Sometimes I wonder what exactly is the work of DSS in this country Sha.

I thought we all know what DSS stands for.
The work of the DSS is to track people who criticize government officials or government policies online, and also to intimidate/harass opposition members.

izzou:
See wetin LGA chairwoman commission for Ebonyi state.

And people clapped
And people praised her

And that same person's vote is supposed to be equal to my own!

Tufiakwa

Some people see things like this and still believe Nigeria will become a first world country in this lifetime.

BlueRayDick:
What is the correlation between the video and the Lord Luggard discussion?

Simple. It's not okay to blame colonizers for Nigeria's failures, for example look at what you posted, are the British the cause of that fvckery? That is the point I tried to make.

izzou:


I personally believe that scattering us into regions will leave us worse off.

I'm not saying Lord Lugard's solution is perfect, but this disintegration should have happened earlier.

If it happens now, exactly anyhow you said it; 250 failed Nigerias will emerge

We can see how south sudan and sudan are fairing decades after splitting. The countries that will emerge from the balkanization will be worse off.

In the event of any such thing the countries that will emerge from the north will be the worst hit. They won't last up to a decade before becoming failed states like somalia and co. The ones that will emerge from the south won't go anywhere because of looting of extraordinary dimensions that will become the order of the day.

MorataFC:
LMAO

The man has said repeatedly that God did not call him to be a politician but a preacher whose primary assignment is to win souls. Yet, people keep dragging him into political debates and demanding that he act like an opposition politician.

He has also consistently maintained that his duty toward those in government is to pray for them and advise them when necessary. Whether people agree with that approach or not is a different matter entirely.

My reason for engaging in this discussion is simply to correct the false narrative surrounding him. Some people claim that Pastor Adeboye constantly criticized Jonathan's administration and even led protests against him, but we now know that these claims are false.

Many have believed these stories for so long that a musician even released a song based on the narrative that he was vocal and actively opposed Jonathan's government, and postested against him but has remained silent today. Yet, when the facts are examined, there is not a shred of evidence to support those allegations.

At least now, people can see how media narratives and repeated claims can shape public perception, even when the underlying facts are weak or nonexistent. By now, many people on this platform have seen that the popular narrative being circulated is not entirely accurate.

Shikena.

You didn't tell us you have enrolled at raumdeuter's amala turning academy.

Instead of providing the links izzou asked for you're just giving us epistle upon epistle, you really learned well from your mentor Raumdeuter.

[quote author=BlueRayDick post=139614847]Kids dey go do excursion for FLYOVER in Edo state 😂. Wonders no fit end for this country

Kids in Edo State go to visit a FLYOVER 😭

Just to give you a context, I grew up in Benin City and at around the same age with these kids, my excursions were to Nigerian Bottling Company, the Airport, the Zoo

The governor just dey show for the state 😭 pic.twitter.com/nJci5okJci

— Harry Da Diegot (@trigottista) June 4, 2026

na Lord Lugard cause this one too? Even if Nigeria is balkanized into 50 different countries, it'll result in 50 failed mini Nigerias. Cursed region.

izzou:
Why do I have a feeling that this comment......?

Never mind

I think I'm hungry

Amoto how's everything?

MorataFC:
It's good that you checked for yourself and I commend you for that.
I was on Twitter yesterday and was surprised at how even people who are considered educated or influential can be misled by misinformation spread by a few individuals. It's unfortunate how easily false narratives gain traction today. Many people accept claims without taking the time to verify them, and repeated misinformation often ends up being treated as fact.

The meme below illustrates this perfectly how media is messing with people's life.

What exactly is the point of all these argument you've been having with blueraydick and co since yesterday, is it that you're against people calling on him to criticize the current government or to lead protest? Him mates no dey lead protests for abroad?

Whether he didn't actually lead a protest against GEJ is irrelevant, he was criticizing him seriously which is not bad, people are just saying he should extend the same gesture to this administration which deserves the criticism as much as, if not even more than the GEJ administration.

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izzou:
This is obviously the part that Larride should be referring to.

The Itsekiri have made Warri their own property, when they have less than 50% as theirs. Majority of Warri is still for the Urhobos, but Itsekiri parades their ruler as the head of Warri.

It's really crazy.

izzou:
Remove Isoko from your list.

How will the others unite against Urhobos without going against themselves?

Maybe they are not doing out of altruism, but compared to others, they have been better

Ijaws and itsekiri don't even like themselves like that. They're just tolerating each other.

livelongprospa:
What are you saying?
Why then did the ijaws not wipe them during the crisis?
Why not consider that the isokos won't go against them?
The only problem Urhobo people have is the fight between their men and women.
But when it comes to peaceful coexistence, those guys have been far too kind to the point they've allowed the influence of olu of warri extend way beyond his boundary.

The itshekiri part of warri that the olu of "warri" presides over is less than 30% sef. 70% of warri belongs to Urhobo, and yet the ruler of only 30% bears olu of "warri".

Ibime:
Why won't they be very fair

They are only majority in Delta but very small compared to Igbos and Ijaws nationally so they have to move with sense. And they are not even that outsized compared to the others. Any combination of Anioma, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Isoko will outnumber them. So they are not doing it out of altruism.

Isoko and Urhobo are literally the same people. Classifying them differently was a mistake. There might be little difference in the language just like abia and ebonyi igbo are a little bit different but still igbo.

If urhobos and isokos collabo they can pull off what ikwerres are doing in rivers state and just rotate major leadership positions among themselves and nothing will happen. They can elect themselves continuously without the other tribes.

The urhobos have been fair, don't mistake it for weakness, attributing this to ijaws having more population nationally is funny and unnecessary boisterousness.

What will the ijaws in bayelsa or rivers do if the ijaws in Delta are systematically excluded from all positions in Delta? Nothing.

This was how you guys were making noise about the fubara and wike situation now your wings have been clipped once more. E go hard for any ijaw person to smell governorship for rivers state again.

Roland17:
You are 100% correct.

Bulk implies he shoulders a bigger share of the responsibility. It has made it easy for some of his supporters to use words like "delegate" to shift the blame or drag others alongside his failure with securing the country. Buck on the other hands leaves no room for him nor his supporters to defer, shift or drag others along.

Again, I am unsure if it was intentional or a misuse/ misspelling of the word "Buck".

Knowing the person involved here, it could've been intentional. I've to admit that the Tinubu of 12 years ago was extremely smart and sly.

I've said it before that if all Nigerian families are mandated to do DNA test today, over 70% of all families in the country would collapse. The level of paternity fraud that has being going on low-key in this country is staggering.

Roland17:
I don't even know if Asiwaju mean to say "The buck stops at" and not "bulk".

Don't get me wrong, bulk works just fine but has a different implication in comparison to buck.

Bulk give room for excuse, but "buck" mean the president has no excuse at all. I could be wrong, but this is my own interpretation of the issue without looking at Google.

izzou:
Very correct!

Those guys have been very fair to the others.

Richest and also the majority but they've been extremely fair. Anybody saying otherwise is probably joking.

We see what ikwerres are doing in rivers state and the igalas in kogi, the tiv in benue etc... countless examples.

raumdeuter:
Is that not what we are facing in Southern Nigeria today? People in the South too enjoyed prosperity and peace for some time. What we are facing today in the South, they have been facing this in the North for about 15-20yrs

The North neglected developing their states an right now, the children they refused to develop has made sure those in the South cannot sleep because human will always move t prosperous areas

HDI will always trump GDP and other development indexes. No matter how high the GDP of a country is if the citizens aren't developed it's all a waste. See mexico with high GDP but extremely poor HDI. Same issue with African countries.

Disstroy always talked about this back in the day. I rate HDI more than GDP and GNI.

Urhobo is the majority ethnic group in Delta but they don't abuse that privilege like most majority ethnic groups do in other states in the country. Rather it is other ethnic groups that sometimes want to fvck with them.

livelongprospa:
Urhobo has been trying to what?

The things you read on nairaland.

chrisooblog:
Tinubu being voted out like you said isn't the issue but who takes over.

Bad as PBAT has been for some critical areas, at least the economic reforms has laid a foundation that a reasonable person should build on.

Yeah. Those economic reforms are critical for the continued existence of the entity called Nigeria if not we were headed the Argentina and Zimbabwe route.

raumdeuter:
You have finally seen the light, Hopefully my brother spy360 will also see the light

Only issue is someone else coming in when he leaves and reversing all his policies. We saw it happen when yaradua reversed major policies made during the obj administration, which assuming those policies were left in place, Nigeria's trajectory might have been different compared to now.

That is the problem we have at the federal level and in most states, lack of continuity. That is why Lagos has an edge over every other state because almost every gov has to follow the same blueprint. If we had that at the federal level, shit might've been different.

Theflint1:
Blaming Lord Lugard for all or 90% of the woes that the Nigerian state suffer today is simplistic.

Yes, the zoo should sooner be balkanized, but Lord Lugard is not why states as large as most countries in Europe and that share a similar identity can't come together to agree on a path forward for their states.

Lord Lugard is not why we have a D7 governor in Edo State, nor is he responsible for the years of misgovernance that the state has suffered. If there cannot be an elite consensus at state-level on how to make life better for the majority today and generations down the road, then we have a bigger problem than Lord Lugard who almagamated Nigeria over 100 years ago.

Both of you are right, two truths can coexist.. Lord lugard fvcked up by joining different tribes that previously had nothing in common together but Lord lugard isn't the cause of the current mess Nigeria is in.

Lord Lugard didn't tell voters in Anambra to sell their votes for #2500 and malt during the governorship election in Anambra last year, neither did he tell edo people to elect a stark illiterate as governor.

Even if Nigeria is balkanized, there's a possibility of the emerging countries becoming failed states within a decade or two. Infact that possibility is over 60%.

Look at Catalonia in Spain, if they're allowed to go, everyone knows they'll be prosperous because they've shown workings and the ability, but none of these Nigerian states/region have shown that they'll be able to do anything different when they're on their own. It's still massive looting and focus on misplaced priorities that will continue to be the order of the day.

LCling:
All I can see is foreign powers in name of shareholders in these tech startup which have mastercard and Visa which have link to venture capital and blackrock trying to muscle out interswitch the only local player for final monopoly and dominance. Even PayPal is back the global world war and order system is already ongoing in Africa and Nigeria is central

You hit the nail on the head. This is exactly what is happening.

They should compete with inter switch instead of trying to bring interswitch down. Interswitch flew so these ones could walk. They delivered Nigerians when no one else would, no Nigerian government will be stupid enough to implement such lopsided demands.

If their offerings are better, customers will choose them over interswitch systems. You can't force people to use your platform.

nihilistjnr:
Well, that's the game that has to be played even by good actors. Which makes it worse when bad actors like Tinubu get into the system
The structure does not incentivise continuity, does not incentivise nation building, does not incentivise long term planning, and does not incentivise finding like minded partners.

It starts with north Vs south, Christian Vs Muslim, then sub-regional rotation. Obi's travails are the perfect microcosm of the irredeemable flaws of the system - at some point Obi was even promising to do only ONE term to try and garner support NOT with the electorate but within the political system.

There's no hope

It's a tragedy. Nigeria can never move forward due to these factors.

nihilistjnr:
Again India is 80% Hindu - speaking the same language, having the same culture, and the same religion. The ethnicities that wanted to go left. Pakistan left India, and then Bangladesh left Pakistan. Sri Lanka was carved out before them.

You cannot hold leaders accountable when the primary driver for leaders actions is political survival in a representative democracy.

Leaders cannot even form parties with ideals because the first thing required to get into power is to get numbers. That's why we have so many alphabets in our political space and why many politicians have moved between almost all the parties and why Obi has tried to get presidential ticket in two different parties in a year, after contesting for tickets in 2 other parties in the last election cycle.

The system is the primary problem. It is like 90% of the problem in my opinion sef.

One thing we always agree on other than Nigeria should be divided, is that Peter Obi is a fraud. I wonder if his supporters are under voodoo.

Someone that was arresting protesters and failed to pay pensions and salaries during his time as governor.
The agulu fraudster will never become president of this country.

Let's give Tinubu more time. I believe his policies are what Nigeria needs. They'll be better for the country in the long run.

To be fair, there are certain policies that takes decades to start showing effect, if we can hold on, the gains will be tremendous.
When Mao started his reforms in China the general populace hated him for it, today those policies have borne fruit. Nigeria was running a heavy deficit before Tinubu came onboard.

A40:
Are you an Atiku man? It's OK to admit oh

Now I don't agree with this North and South business either but for the sake of parity that's the best arrangement for now.

The issue is why is he contesting in a period that should be the South's turn. This is the same guy that betrayed GEJ and allowed this APC monster to clutch to power to begin with. And for that alone I would rather Tinubu win than for Atiku to smell Aso Rock

He has never fought fair and his selfishness I find off putting. Obasanjo saw that and refused to endorse him at every turn which is highly unusual anywhere in the world cos most Presidents back their vice to continue from where they stopped

I agree with you my bro. Tinubu should continue.
Tinubu till 2031.