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BlueRayDick:
On the grounds of insecurity alone sef Tinubu no supposed see 10% of votes in a general election, but trust the abracdabra system of government & politics we play in Nigeria dem go tell us say : "One Good turn deserves another "

Let's be serious here. Even if thugs are not involved, poor Nigerians will still sell their votes to the highest bidder. And as you know it, poor people constitute a greater path of the electorate.

Mass illiteracy/lack of exposure, tribalism/religion and poverty shapes how people vote in this country, and it's not getting better.

izzou:
Can you just stop, please?

This thing na human being life we dey talk about..

Abeg!

Lol.

Amoto94:
PRESS RELEASE

UPDATE ON NIGERIA- UNITED STATES JOINT STRIKES ON ISIS: FORCES DELIVER DEVASTATING BLOW, ELIMINATE 175 TERRORISTS

The Defence Headquarters wishes to announce major successes in continuing counterterrorism operations in close coordination with United States Africa Command against ISIS terrorists in North East Nigeria.

It will be recalled that the joint strikes started a few days ago. As of 19 May 2026, assessments indicate that 175 ISIS terrorists have been eliminated from the battlefield.

The joint strikes have resulted in the destruction of ISIS checkpoints, weapons caches, logistical hubs, military equipment and financial networks used to sustain terrorist operations.

The operations have also resulted in the elimination of several senior ISIS leaders, including Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, one of the most significant ISIS operatives in the world.

Al-Minuki played a central role in ISIS external operations, coordinating terrorist financing, recruitment, logistics and attack planning targeting Nigerians and innocent civilians around the world. His death severely disrupts ISIS command, operational coordination and external attack networks.

Other terrorist figures eliminated include Abd-al Wahhab, ISWAP senior leader responsible for coordinating attacks and distributing propaganda, Abu Musa al-Mangawi, ISWAP senior member and Abu al-Muthanna al-Muhajir, ISWAP senior media production team manager and close confidant to al-Minuki.

The joint strikes have further reinforced what the Armed Forces of Nigeria have consistently done over the years - hunt down and kill terrorists anywhere they are in Nigeria.

The joint operations will continue to hunt down and destroy those who threaten our nation and regional stability.

SAMAILA UBA
Major General
Director Defence Information
19 May 2026

Mr publicity secretary of the Nigerian military, Incase you're not hearing it from people around you.

Only fools still hold the Nigerian military in any regard. The Nigerian military is an unprofessional and very useless force.

If they were handling terrorists and bandits with the same zeal they use when dealing with defenceless citizens they're supposed to be protecting, maybe the country would've been safer.

izzou:
Chai! Pa Nwoko bites the dust

So what happens to his Anioma state?

Ned has been pushing for the creation of an Anioma state, and it should be added to the SE. Okowa supports it, but says it should stay in the SS.

With Okowa going to the Senate, that dream might die off, because the Senate won't add a 7th state for the SS.

That is Ned Nwoko's problem. Do you think he actually cares for the Anioma cause? Or he was chasing a bigger picture to be regarded as the godfather of the state(if it was approved) since he championed it.

If he was that desperate to return to the Senate he should've gone to Okowa with the following proposition:

1. Henceforth, publicly regard Okowa as his master/benefactor,
2. 60% of every loot or whatever he makes due to the
Senate seat goes to Okowa,
3. Every legislative agenda he plans to initiate or support
must go through Okowa for approval first.

If he had given this proposition or something similar, given how far Okowa has already come in life, he would've probably agreed.

But the problem with people like Nwoko is they have too much pride, thinking they're bigger than they are.

Okowa choosing to contest is just to show who's the boss, not because he's really interested. And Ned If he didn't know who the boss was all this while, I believe he now knows from the result of the primary.

TemporaryHansel:
Bandits now operating more intensely in the SW and yet master strategist isn't doing anything, just focused on only politics as usual.

At this point, it is becoming obvious that even if 2000 people are killed daily in every state in the country, Tinubu won't care.

Is it until Lagos and Abuja are involved that they'll know it's human lives being sniffed out here and not chicken lives?

The useless Nigerian military and police force are nowhere to be found, they are only active against unarmed/defenceless civilians.

They only care about Lagos and Abuja. Every other place in the country means nothing to them, regardless of how many lives are lost.

Bandits now operating more intensely in the SW and yet master strategist isn't doing anything, just focused on only politics as usual.

At this point, it is becoming obvious that even if 2000 people are killed daily in every state in the country, Tinubu won't care.

Is it until Lagos and Abuja are involved that they'll know it's human lives being sniffed out here and not chicken lives?

The useless Nigerian military and police force are nowhere to be found, they are only active against unarmed/defenceless civilians.

TemporaryHansel:
Yeah. To be fair to him, nobody predicted the master will defect to APC. I think that EFCC case made him do it, to avoid unnecessary disturbance.

Anyways, even if Okowa didn't defect to APC, as long as he chose to contest, Ned cannot win against him in a general election either. Whether primary or general, he's bound to lose to the boss.

Akinlot:
You perhaps read that wrongly. I said defected not defeated

Yeah. To be fair to him, nobody predicted the master will defect to APC. I think that EFCC case made him do it, to avoid unnecessary disturbance.

izzou:
Any specific reason why Ned cannot beat Okowa?

Is it because he has done a lot of years already?

Ned cannot beat Okowa in a primary. That is the end of it.

People online seem to think because Ned is a moneybag he can win, but these things don't work like that. If the stakeholders don't fvck with you, no amount of money will help you.

Ned decamped from PDP to APC because he feared Okowa will contest for the Senate seat and he knows he can't contest against Okowa and win, only for Okowa to defect to APC later, talk about the devil paying you a visit hahaha.
He should've locked up instead of going ahead to disgrace himself by contesting against Okowa.

Okowa is not Peter Nwaoboshi, and some reasons he won was because of Regina daniels popularity by his side and Nwaoboshi himself already fvcked up due to previous decisions he made. Nothing special.

TemporaryHansel:
If Okowa contest for the Senate seat for Delta North, which is likely, there's no way Ned will win. Ned cannot win Okowa in a primary election. That's why he ran from PDP to APC, now Okowa is also in APC, where's he going to run to now? Maybe he'll run to LP, because Ned Nwoko cannot beat Okowa in a primary election.

@Akinlot see what I said about this last year around October.

Akinlot:
I believe he defected before Okowa if I'm not mistaken.

With the benefit of hindsight, I doubt he would have defected to APC.

Defeated Okowa in another dimension or different reality perhaps. It was Peter Nwaoboshi(may his soul rip) that he defeated.

Roland17:
Which begs the question, on what basis is Asiwaju seeking reelection for the office of the president?

If Nigeria was a serious country, Tinubu wouldn't have the balls to even seek re-election.

What's wrong? Hotels aren't that expensive so why people deliberating risking their lives for nothing? Not everyone is sane, some can kill you for messing with their partners, if you must engage in stuff like this why can't you lodge in a hotel in a far away town?

It's not by having the most money. Irrespective of how much you have, if major stakeholders don't like you or don't front you, you won't go anywhere.

Problem is some folks think as long as they have money they can use money to bulldoze everything but they always learn , it's not like that.

izzou:
You're mixing it up.

The people you mentioned are NASS members, not HoR members. I can bet that only few Lagosians know their HoR members.

The HoR is Amuwo Odofin shared COVID palliatives on her birthday. Where was this outrage on her too?

Desmond is being cancelled by his party, and not the people of Surulere (yet). They obviously don't want to give him the ticket because of political reasons, and they are selling a performance narrative to the people. That's my point.

I also feel he should have read the room and move on to something else. Not decamp, but lobby for something else. A new regime is coming in 2027. Start casting your nets in different sectors.

It's just shameful seeing him gather a League of Veteran actors to beg for him. Are they all living in his constituency?

Werey man

HOR are NASS members. I think you mean HOA.

A40:
This is what they probably told Saint Obi and that's how he died in silence. I don't agree with this at all

Hey ya he was a nice guy when he dies at 54 na him go end am.

I understand the silent man and I also understand the man that decides to speak. And men need to do less laughing and more listening to our problems. Suicide rates and mental health issues is at a high and we can't keep being indifferent to each other's struggles. Women are not wired to care. That one is nature and I don't hold it against them I just understand that's woman being woman but the first instinct as a man hearing another man's marital issues should not be to laugh. Let the women do that

As for male celebs if you don't maximize your fame and spend responsibly you have yourself to blame. Chris Brown is the only male celeb doing it right and breaking these girls pockets

I've never understood the culture of trickin, living lavishly trying to impress women. I've always maintained men should be even more frugal and have zero tolerance for women that are there to squander your resources. I have not seen church wey get ministry for Widowers.

You're the man expected to pay for education, leave inheritance, Life insurance. You're expected to provide in life and even in death

Nothing like nature. It's all Social conditioning.

izzou:
How bad did Desmond perform, compared to others?

Him getting cancelled is because of the powers within his political party, and not really about performance.

Abi, how many HoR in Lagos do we know that performed well?

His party people have cancelled him. My own anger is why he is trying to force himself on them and everyone.

If people no accept you, do another thing. Go lobby for SA or Commissioner from HamZat, or one Ministry

Crying like a baby is just irritating me

Na the free money wey go stop dey make am cry. Once most people taste politics funds them no dey gree cormot body again. E get why people dey look Obi laugh when he dey promise to do one term.

A40:
Naah you can't defend Frank after seeing that response sha. Never that

Me I believe in a code of silence as well so long as you're not being attacked. But certain offenses should be exposed if they are that egregious. DV, Paternity fraud, If they gave you diseases

Even those instances shouldn't be brought to the media.

Spy360:
Yes but will there be peace, equity? In a multiethnic country like Nigeria?

The zoning principle was brought to ensure that every region produces a president in this new republic first before we start making it based on popularity.

If you ask me, the only thing I care about in leaders is if they can enact policies that will make business and life easier, I don't give a fvck about where they came from, that is the least of my priorities.

CrystalTiger:
This marriage thing can be funny..If you're not ready for one partner, why marry at all..The woman came with names of the mistresses Frank had, even with locations for some of the affairs...

I do hope they don't descend into hatred for each other because it might affect the kids..

I don't even understand the guy. You're doing your own the lady never came to the media, she did her own, you ran to the media. What was his purpose of doing that? To get her bullied or what? I don't like hypocrisy.

raumdeuter:
Seyi wants to be the Kwankwanso of Oyo, that serious candidates come to negotiate Kano votes with. Seyi will get more than 10K votes in Oyo and those votes are votes that should have gone to Tinubu that would have gone to waste

By the time in 2019 its the time of the South, its going to likely be SE or SS. which disqualifies him unless he wants to claim his wife lineage in Rivers

We need to stop all these zoning stuff sha. A Nigerian is a Nigerian.
State of origin /region of origin these things are just dividing the country further instead of actually uniting us.

Many states and even Nigeria as a country has lost opportunities to experience competent leadership because of this nonsense.

The only people defending Frank Edoho on this matter are people that didn't know his antecedents during his prime days, and those that defend anything their gender does.

Man fvcked anything fvckable, he was always in the news. That guy can't tell me he didn't fvck anybody's partner back then. He should've just moved on mehn.

Relationship and marriage issues are things I believe should never be brought on social media irrespective of what happened.

timidapsin:
One thing that can destroy a person is marrying the wrong partner.

I still believe that if you are genuinely unhappy in your marriage, whether as a man or a woman, divorce should be an option.

I don’t subscribe to the “till death do us part” mentality when the relationship is unhealthy, draining, or damaging, and I don’t think people should be pressured to stay in such situations.

Spot on bro.

TemporaryHansel:
That UK guy wey dem fvck him wife wey dey crashout for twitter since, like say na naija him dey he for don arrest the guy with police dey oppress am, since he likely get bread pass the guy wey spread him wife so.

If your wife cheat on you instead of you to hold her responsible, like she's the one that had vows with you oh, you'll go and fight, arrest, or oppress the person that fvcked her, meanwhile a woman that doesn't want to be fvcked can't be fvcked! Women are the gatekeepers of sex. So if someone fvcks your wife, hold her responsible.

Unto this. Frank Edoho should go and arrest Chike na. Chike has more bread than him so he can't do anything but if it was some random bloke he would've used lawless Nigerian institutions to mess him up.

A lot of these men who always wail about being cheated on are doing their own by the way , but they'll never talk about their own part.

semid4lyfe:
I remember differently. She said they eventually did IT and it was underwhelming.

Why was she speaking about such things publicly? Wtf.

Some of these women are not serious. If you want sex too much they complain, if you don't want it they still complain.

PDJT:
- This is why you don't marry a daughter of a poor man/woman in the name of love. For them marriage is a gateway ticket out of their generational poverty.

- Marrying someone below your socio-economic level is a recipe for disaster.

- Men, know your worth and marry more than one to make it worthwhile.

They never listen.

Misplaced priorities. Religion is for brain dead folks.

Let's not forget so called millionaires collected malt and 2k from Apga in Anambra. Chai.

Let me see any anambra person wail or complain about Soludo again.

Leyqute:
These politicians baffle me. Why not spend that money on infrastructure and improving the lives of the electorate? Surely, that will earn him solid points for reelection, no?

Why should they do that when foolish Nigerians will still vote for them even if they do nothing? Nigeria is a lost cause mehn.

As long as you'll share rice, malt, and 5k they'll collect and return you. I've said it before that most Nigerians don't care about manifesto and plans or any of that, just give them money. No matter how angry people were with Gej back then, if Tinubu and Amaechi didn't bring out funds to share , buhari wouldn't have gone anywhere.

Milionaires in which currency? Is it $ or naira because if it's naira the number reported for Lagos is vastly inaccurate, but if you say dollar millionaires then it's agreeable.

This presidential election will be the most expensive in Nigeria history. I don't think any other president spent this much for re-election in this country.

With the way baba is moving, the total money spent for this his re-election will be over $20b oh. This man has 32 state governors in his party and still not reassured.

Nigerians will sell their votes to the highest bidder once more, and wail about the consequences for the next four years again. A continuous cycle.

airmark:


Wahala for inventors.

But is there no international patent laws that protect such inventions?

There are ways to circumvent that.