₦airaland Forum

rolams:
But they can't rescue the students and teachers who were kidnapped before them. Hmmm! He get as he be oooo!

Don't be surprised.

The complexity is not the same, albeit, the security forces of Nigeria should be ready for all complexities

Theirs was a kidnap by local criminals that may even have been tipped off to commit the crime by domestic aides or relatives or political opponents, unlike a kidnap effected by a full-fledged terrorist group known as fulani bandits, who hide their victims in the forest.

Certainly not fulani herdsmen cum terrorists.

These are local riff-raffs who wanted to score some fast cash.

The government need to overhaul the security and legal sytem of this country, as every criminal mind now seem to know what I have long observed about Nigeria - that our security and safety only exist by luck and not by any strategic planning.

The mediocre Nigeria Police has still not evolved beyond these culprits escaping with gun shot wounds without police giving chase to capture or neutralize?

We might fault Atiku for his political greed, but we cannot claim he suffers from Obiphobia - the fear of political contest, especially party primaries.

Great!

A new dawn for Arsenal.

Bendeco02:
Did Jonathan ever promised to do only one tenure?

Can you drop video evidence where he made such statement?

You guys will just be posting rubbish.

@least we don't hear your previous slogan that no northerner will vote Igbo man. 2023 election cleared the doubt, now your have switched to another manipulation.

Assume Obi agreed to run joint ticket with Atiku, that will be a disrespect to Southerners. We are not like the region that aligned with North to remove southern president and now cries is turn for South.

Apart from tue fact that it was widely reported all over the news as an outcome of the negotiations in the PDP leading up to the PDP primaries and never refuted by the President and any of his media team or government officials, Jonathan himself referenced it in the buildup to that 2011 presidential election.

Till today, Jonathan has never denied that he agreed to do only 1 term.

Except you were a kid then would you even think this is worthy of a debate. This is not just news headlines, there are instances of his own quoted words like the Reuters news report. Or you want to debate with his quoted words?


https://www.reuters.com/article/world/africa/nigeria-president-says-hes-seeking-only-single-term-idUSLDE7101TW/

Age of consent in most latin American countrues us 15 or 14.

What is acceptable where he is from is a crime in the UK.

Just checked and he is from Spain where the age of consent is 16. Then he must be very goolish to have replied that he did not mind being with a 15yr old when he knows the implication of that even in his own country.

kinzd:
Have we all ask ourselves this question why was 2023 Election results announced by odd hours of 4am What APC cannot destroy doesn't exist

Did you see INEC complete the national tallying earlier in the day and then wait till 4am to announce the result.

Sometimes we should be employing our commonense.

aswani:
Dissapointed in this guy, why would you be hopping from one party to another.

I thought he was principled as well, I guess Nigerian politics happened to him.

Very Disappionted.

Like someone said, he has not built grassroot support and he is hoping that a bandwagon effect will get him elected.

Grass Cutter!

He carelessly spoke himself out of any meaningful political relevance during the last election cycle.

One thing I am certain is that no sane Nigerians would remove the Tinubu regime just to have an Atiku regime.

Tinubuofemmanu:
Useless Tinubu is 85 years old today

Why is the old birthday celebration record useless, but a newspaper that wrongly detailed the age of a Politician they were interviewing not about his age, then become the valid proof of age?

So because a newspaper made a mistake in properly determining the age of a politician that was being interviewed not about his age, then the mistake must become reality?

Did Tinubu celebrate his birthday the next year or the year after that and any one celebrated his age as 53yrs or 54yrs respectively?

Did Ovation Magazine wrongly recognizing Emegwali as Professor in their 2002 interview, ever changed the reality that the inventor was never a Professor?

Ofunaofu:
At this point, ‘controversial’ might as well be defined as Tinubu in the Oxford Dictionary.

How come Tinubu celebrated 60yrs in 2012, but Sahara Reporters was helping him to celebrate 69yrs?

Is it Sahara Reporters that will decide for Bola Tinubu the age he celebrated in 2012?

Many educated Nigerians behave like they do not have anything in their head.

What age was Tinubu celebrating for all of his years as Governor?

Did he celebrate 64yrs in 2007 which was his last birthday as Governor for him to have been celebrating 69yrs in 2012 according to Sahara Reporters?

Politics should not make us senseless.

ambale:
NTA runs a commercial business, when last has anyone audited their revenue??

Abi Dem no dey Everly get adverts ni?

Something is poorly run and instead make una talk una begin dey defend what's not

Is poorly run not part of having N137m budgeted for all the 36 NTA capital stations in the country?

Is that not a valid concern for which the government must be chastised?

You want results but you don't have funding. Better wake up.

UrVillageChief:
The same man they all called all sorts of derogatory names for being a failure as a Governor in 2011-12suddenly become the most desirable and upright politician in Nigeria just because he's now contesting against those who are not their kinsmen or do you think Obi would have been enjoying this cult-like followrship if Atiku and Tinubu were Igbos or if he was contesting against people like Willie Obiano, Charles Soludo or even Okorocha?
The problem with Nigeria is that every region protects its thieves and criminals and this particular one would criticize you for protecting yours while not hiding their own hypocrisy. Tinubu and Atiku never claimed to be saintly, it's only this particular teeff that is fond of claiming holiness despite the barrage of corruption allegations surrounding him. The only Nigerian politician that had that bragging right is the late Buhari. I personally do not like him but there's no denying the fact that he was a modest person. Though, people stole monies under him and he was a horrible leader but let's not deny the fact that he was never a thief.

Mai gaskiya can never the accused of theft or enrichment from public office.

Same cannot be said of the one whose name is all over the Pandora disclosures and hid wealth under his daughter's name.

I hope the US economy has jobs for them and the expatriate lifestyle they were living in the UAE, Qatsr, Kuwait, and Saudi?

Agugbadin:
Inner Marina would urgently need a public toilet because from this data. Four out of the five were arrested at inner marina.

That is quite obvious.

The environment commissioner should also inform us where the public toilets are located in Inner Marina that these citizens refused to use.

I am the last to convince that if your provide a feather bed in a cosy apartment for the masses, they would elect to sleep under a bridge.

UrVillageChief:
Well, in actual fact, he was acused of many misappropriations of funds but you just intentionally always turn deaf and dumb each time such allegations are raised.
His immediate successor claimed he demanded billions from him for being his godfather, what did y'all say to Willie?
One of his aides was caught smuggling over 400 million, did you not turn a blind eye on it?
His name graced the Pandora paper for stashing monies abroad, what did you say about it?
For over 7 years, man sat on the monies he was supposed to share among the various LGAs in the state but as the wise and the smooth teeff that he is, he refused to conduct the elections.
If all these don't count as corruption and stealing to you then I don't know what to call you or what exactly you are taking us for🤣
Above all, bro invested funds belonging to his State in a company where he held a significant share and to worsen the whole situation, he didn't even deny the allegations as he would even use it as a bragging right and campaign point and since all that didnt count as corruption and stealing to his supporters since he's not one Adeyemi or Mohammed from SW/North🤣

That is the delusion that Ibechris and his fellow clansmen suffer.

Just that we still have all the evidence of how Peter Obi was denounced as a failure and mediocre administrator by the same Igbo clansmen who later propped him up as the messiah.

Amumaigwe:
You always go on overdrive with your defence whenever a plain comment is made which seems to suggest that the country needs better government that has the capacity to address the many malignant societal ills. Abba may have supported this government becsuse of ethnic and/or religious biases, just like you are currently doing, but didn't know that the same government would fail him. Everyone will certainly eat from any meal he contributed to make. God is not mocked.

I have asked a simple question, would the ethnoreligious diversity that feeds the peculiar insecurities we have in Nigeria be eradicated by an election going the way of any of the candidates on the ballot?

This is not an overdrive, this is taking a position that does not follow the lazy mental capacity of the bandwagon.

A certain region voted 89% for a candidate who was native to that region. Worry about that before worrying about who Abba supported.

Many people voted in Kenya for the government of the day only to come out to the etreets months later to defy that government and its policies. I wonder why the election did not solve all the problems of Kenya?

Gerundphrase:
you have zero comprehension. Let me summarise: what he meant is that we shouldn't select our leaders on the yardstick of tribe, party affiliations, religion etc. But on the basis of competence. Competent leaders means no terrorism...

This is as foolish as saying competent leaders would eradicate homicides/murder in a nation.

So all the keaders of the world battling with terrorism in their respective nations are incompetent?


Nigeria already has the enthnoreligious heterogenuity that is a main cause of the insecurity/terrorism that bedevils the country.

We do not know what medical condition the child suffered from before he was refrerred from Atlantis to Euracare. Euracare were not actually required to provide any care, except to prep the patient for his international travel where the needed care will be provided by Johns Hopkins Hospital.

What might be damning for Euracare is if there was an overdose of the propofol used for the anesthesia and also if the necessary mitigation/remedial services that might be required if things go south were not handy.

It's very sad to lose a child, a little one for that matter who depends on the parents to take the right decision. So I understand why the parents need to take this up to ensure that whoever is complicit is adequately punished and removed from access to other children who require them to be at their professional best.

Kushites:
THANKS FOR CONFIRMING WHAT I SAID.

That your N21 billion Naira amounts to $15 million.

I asked ChatGPT AI what was CNN's annual budget:

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CNN Annual Budget (Approximate)

About $1.8 billion per year in revenue (2026 projection)

About $600 million operating profit

So in simple terms:

CNN operates on roughly a $1.5–$2 billion annual budget scale.

- AI

So a TV network that receives $15 million a year, and one that receives $2 BILLION a year, which one do you think will look sharper and snazzier, with more steeze and swag when you watch it?

You don't even need to delve deep and far.

From the budget, only N1.5b is for capital projects out of which 137m is for studio equipment for all of the state capital stations (36 NTA Stations).

That is a mockery.

Yet, just seeing the annual budget of N21.3b, Nigerians will call it a waste of funds without seeing how it sums up and how each expenditure is very out of touch with modern pricing realities.

However, some Ogas at the top will still attempt to corner something out of nothing.

princeade86:
Judge urself with ur li es.The Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) was allocated a total of ₦21.3 billion in the 2025 federal budget.
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2025 Budget Breakdown for NTA:
Based on the 2025 budget proposal, the ₦21.3 billion allocation is divided into the following main areas:
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Personnel Cost (Salaries): ₦9.48 billion
Allowances and Social Distributions: ₦7.35 billion
Capital Projects: Approx. ₦1.5 billion (including, for example, ₦149 million for DSNG uplink facilities, ₦193 million for content acquisition, and ₦137 million for studio equipment for state capital stations).
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Contextual Information:
Historical Funding: In the 10 years prior to 2021, the federal government invested a total of ₦67 billion into NTA, with a significant portion going toward personnel costs.
2020 Allocation: In 2020, NTA received ₦6.6 billion, with ₦6.1 billion for personnel and only ₦303.8 million for capital projects.
Comparison: In 2025, NTA, alongside the National Orientation Agency (NOA - ₦24.4 billion) and the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN - ₦21.5 billion), accounted for over 60% of the total budget for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation.

While I am surprised that a studio could look like that, then I am no longer surprised when a paltry N137m is for studio equipment for states capital stations in the whole country.

Ask yourself if N137m is enough for even 1 state capital station?

It means every state capital station of NTA must depend on their own share of the N137m to procure or upgrade existing studio. Hence why you have such obvious makeshift studio.

That is nonsense.

Will the government commit more money to such when it is yet to better fund Healthcare and other infrastructural projects? No!

The respective states NTA stations should pursue IGR from its advert slots and programme slots.

weslay:
This is why Nigerians need to look beyond tribal and religious sentiments during election. He must be Muslim/Christian, na my brother, na we dey dominate, this is the end result. Everyone will suffer irrespective of tribe or religion

What is the correlation between election and the fact that a corper was abducted by terrorists?

What political party would have stopped terrorism that the past PDP and the cirrent APC in government have not stopped since 2010 when all this mess began?

Would election stop the ethnoreligious persuasions that feed the inclination towards a life of terrorism?

As a leader, learn to do what you need to do if you are convinced it is the right action, and not worry about lamentations from the opposition.

If they find their way to power, they will go through with the same policies for which they are challenging you.

Reza Pahlavi will probably return in what will be a reinstatement of the Shah dynasty, but only as a constitutional monarchy that oversees a democratic Iran.

Good can result from evil eliminating another evil.

But evil persist in this world.

You spend money to investigate and extradite a fraudster and you are giving him only 6yrs?

Useless human specie wey you for knack 30yrs so that his life will be totally useless afterwards.

Waste of justice.

I have never seen jungle justice being meted out to cyberfraudsters or any fraudster for that matter, but you dare steal onions in the market and you may roast for it.

If indeed El Rufai already got a reply, why did he publicise his enquiry but did not publicise the reply?

That alone highlights the deliberate cunning of a rablerouser.

Soludo is the kind of strong commonsense leader that is needed in Igboland.

Peter Obi has finally accepted what I have always known.

A public servant that can domicile state funds in the same bank where he was a former board chairman, and then refuse to spend the money so that the bank can continue to transact private business and make profit while the people of Anambra are kept waiting for infrastructural development, is truly a wicked and visionless man.

When he was moved to spend big money, he spent public funds on a Brewery that he had a stake in its ownership.

This is the same scoundrel that is being whitewashed by the same Igbos who condemned his many failings as a mediocre Governor.

Tufiakwaaaa!

The blasts were felt all the way to the Oko-Oba/Abule-Egba axis of Lagos.

Mum concluded it was a military coup that Sunday evening, until news filtered in late in the night that it was the amoury at the Cantonment that was exploding.


Some schoolmates of mine got to school late the next day that was Monday and had passed through the Army Cantonment and picked up some bullets to show the rest of us in school at Maryland. After school that Monday, some of us decided to explore the Ikeja Cantonment and saw many bullets and other piece parts of weapons scattered around.

Very risky adventure that our parents never knew about.