₦airaland Forum

Teymanhenry:
Bottom line is we place so much power and dependence on the government.

We know the government is corrupt, but we as Nigerians must also reflect. Sometimes we enable what we complain about. Some of Tinubu’s policies are insensitive, yet many say most Yorubas hardly complain because Tinubu is their tribe, and many APC members rarely call out the truth because they benefit from the system. When loyalty to tribe or party overrides truth, accountability dies. That is the real insanity.

On power generation, we have rich people who can partner with solar companies to provide solar systems on loan to creditworthy people and hold them accountable for quality delivery. In so doing, plenty people will go off the national grid. States and LGAs can learn from that and scale it.

We can demand better governance, but we cannot wait forever. Real change will come when citizens start building alternatives.

You want people to invest in solar, when there are not clear cut policies to regulate and protect the industry? You want businessmen to risk their money when the government is clueless in actual governance, and only interested in politics and looting. No one who is seeing what Dangote is going through with his $20 billion investment would ever invest in Nigeria.

People can't protest because president Tinubu has captured the Nigerian state. He has captured the judiciary, he has captured the all the main political parties, he has captured the unions and civil society group, he has even captured the clergy and religious organisations, so who will protest.

DeltaBachelor:
Chai. Can you imagine o. Aso rock leaving National Grid for Solar. Obviously, this means there is no hope in sight for the poor masses that can’t afford solar as per electricity concerns . If Government sef japa, who will now fix the problem ?

And you think they care for the common man? The only time they care for the common man is during elections, when they share cups of Garri, rice, tee-shirts, caps and aso-ebi.

DeltaBachelor:
Chai. Can you imagine o. Aso rock leaving National Grid for Solar. Obviously, this means there is no hope in sight for the poor masses that can’t afford solar as per electricity concerns . If Government sef japa, who will now fix the problem ?

Are you surprised? Nigerian governments and officials have consistently shown that they are above Nigerians and not in tune or care about the welfare of Nigerians. Government officials and their families go to French, British or German hospital to treat common malaria, budget billions for public hospitals. They send their children to schools in Switzerland, US and UK, where they spend millions of dollars, while schools in Nigeria are in a state of despair. As I said, Nigerian government behave like colonialists, who don't have any stake in the country. They simply want to exploit and loot the country, and then return to their home base.

advanceDNA:
Dont be shocked that someone will still pay aso rock PHCN bill for the next 10years and it eill be in the budget…. Wellcome to nigeria

The budget for yearly maintenance of the solar will be higher than paying NEPA bills.

Burob:
If u like no go meet your state & local government to elevate u from poverty, guaranteed 10 years from now, u go still dey where u dey.

In that case sovereignty should be granted local and state governments. Local and state governments should control their resources, control their monetary and Fiscal policies, control their police, and even their own military.

Kobicove:
Why would any right-thinking person keep cobras as pets?

Never heard of anyone keeping venomous snakes as pet. Pythons yes, because they are non venous and are non aggressive, but cobras, vipers and mambas, no.

Kalulu44:
Succinctly said

You are wise. You must have a discerning spirit. The message was comedy directed at President Tinubu.

234Love:
Your comment tells me INEC is doing a poor job at mass education and explaining the way this system works. You must not have network at the time the results are transmitted. It can be stored in the device until there is network.
There is no difference between this and taking a piece of paper to the collation center. We can even decide to not use network. Just take your device to the collation center and the results gets uploaded automatically. This avoids the changing of results on a piece of paper. Once the result is entered, it cannot be changed because it’s stored in the device. Network or no network.

Exactly. What's Nigeria and in fact the whole world wants is a digital footprint of election results so it can be monitored by anyone and referenced when required. You don't have the cumbersome process of applying to INEC to release each polling unit, ward, Local Government, state and national results, before you can use it for whatever purpose you need it for. This is the main reason petitioners cannot win in court against INEC. In the last elections, INEC simply refused to release certified election results in time.

Besides, with all elections in digital form stored in secured servers, people, parties and researchers can analyse election results in detail, to understand voting demographics and patterns. Parties can know their strengths and weaknesses and know how to plan for future elections. The way it is now, you can't have a detail record of the elections, only disjointed figures given out by INEC. Our electoral system cannot progress without digitisation of election results.

richiemcgold:
I hope the BVAs are well-secured against any form of manipulations while on this offline mode.

Are paper transmission of results well-secured against any form of manipulation?

narite:
Maybe in England but saying in Europe, you are talking rubbish.

Rubbish? Here is the champion league table as of today.

Champion's League is supposed to be a competition for the best teams in Europe. And who won the league?

bankyblue:
You are right.
But what happens in an area where there is no network? Real time can't work! So that area will be disenfranchised?

Ironically, INEC has figured it all put. The BVAS machines uses in the last election stored the data and then upload immediately it sees network. So even if some data is not transmitted live, they are transmitted within a reasonably short time. INEC experimented it before the last election and it was successful. It was during the election proper that the machines were sabotaged, and the machines could not be fully utilised. Its not even the non live transmission of results that is annoying, it's that data gleaned from the BVAS machines are not admissible in court, according to the electoral act. The court only accept paper entries, even those with questionable origins. We cannot continue to conduct our election that way.

bankyblue:
Transfer is in-between.....even the USA and UK do transfer.
All what the political parties need to do is get their agent educated and vigilant

In Nigeria's political system, agents of smaller parties are often intimidated, threatened, or even compromised. Some have been killed by political thugs and security personnel in attempts to protect the votes of their party. In Nigeria agents are not voluntary like in other advanced climes, each candidate has to be responsible for the logistics and upkeep of their agents in all polling booths. This puts elective offices out of reach for genuine candidates who want to serve.

Real live electronic transmission of results will resolve most of these issues. As the results are transmitted for the whole world to see immediately after counting and in front of voters.

I am telling you. Don't take it for granted. Watch, just watch. Every Governor who is doing his second tenure and has ambition to put his successor and you support betrayal, you will never survive it.

Only in Nigeria.

akingold2:
APC crosses 10 million Dundee's membership mark. Congratulations Nigeria.

meanwhile, APC got less than 9 million votes in the last presidential elections.

RealLordZeus:
It's been long i saw your post... So because u no see things chop for this admin now.. make military take over
8 years of Buhari, you stand gidigba , na now day break.. hypocrite
Even Manna no dey post this one oo

What's the difference between this civilian administration and military rule. Is the Cybercrimes Act of 2025, not the same thing as decree 4 of 1984?

I am of the opinion that all the other parties should simply boycott the elections and allow APC and INEC declare themselves winners of all elections. The people need not come out and vote, INEC should simply declare APC winner of every election in Nigeria.

legendarystar:
You raised valid points, I know it’s not easy to lead a multi ethnic, religious society like Nigeria where majority are not receptive of change…

But I mean there’s a whole lots of wastage in terms of public funds management

What do you mean by "majority are not receptive of change"? Majority of Nigerians have been demanding for a change in our electoral system for decades, but the politicians have been resisting this change, and preferred to do things the old way. Besides, the APC ousted PDP with a slogan of "change", did Nigerians in general not buy into the slogan and voted for APC in 2015? So how can you acuse majority of Nigerians not being receptive to change.

Xmen149:
Long overdue.

The villages without internet they can start making the arrangements now .

They can also have a central transmission hub for those villages just near the villages where internet is.

The old league will always continue to hold the country down if these reforms are not made and adopted

If JAMB can organise exams online all over the country in real time, WAEC is proposing to real time computer based exams all over the country, what stops INEC from not only transmitting results in real time, but actually conduct the elections itself in real time.

franchasng:
It's unfortunate there is no nationwide outrage to shutdown Nigeria and force National Assembly to implement this because that is what majority of Nigerians want, if it fails let it fail and we can learn from there and refine it in next election

Nigerian are docile and cowardly people, all they are after in Owanbe, enjoyment, sex and religion. That's why government, churches and traditional rulers exploit and abuse them without fear of consequences.

franchasng:
What are you blabbing about?


Someone like you is not supposed to have access to Internet Honestly.


Realtime transmission of election results (snapped election results sheet not even figures which makes it impossible to rig) is possible because it will be done once within few minutes or even seconds.


Realtime transmission means after the polling unit concludes voting, the INEC collation officer there snap the result sheet before everybody present, switch on his device and an internet transmitter which will connect directly to starlink network or even three alternatives, and within a minute the polling officer has transmitted the snapped polling unit result sheet to the central INEC server accessible to all Nigerians to view and note down.


So where does this some villages does not have internet network comes from? Starlink network is in space covering all over earth, all you need is the starlink internet accessories to access it which will be provided to every INEC polling unit official.


This evil and backwardness you guys are supporting because you believe it will favor your tribesmen currently in power, it will affect you one day, keep supporting evil with unfounded excuses

Don't mind them, very evil minded people. They don't care if the country burns, as long they benefit from the chaos. I am sure Elon Musk would provide free or subsidised star link services if the government asks just to cover election periods, or international bodies can pay for it, if the government says they can't afford it. But then we know INEC and APC would do anything to sabotage the elections.

Carmencita99:
Invoking America only when it’s convenient has become a familiar escape hatch. Yes, even advanced democracies face electoral challenges, but they also show accountability, institutional consequences, and steady improvements in governance, infrastructure, and public welfare. You can’t cherry-pick America’s flaws to excuse Nigeria’s failures while ignoring the dividends of governance that make those systems resilient. You can’t cite America’s imperfections to justify delay while ignoring what makes its system work. After decades of elections, Nigerians shouldn’t be told to “be patient” again. On transparency, it should be clear: real-time transmission of results or nothing. Excuses are no longer acceptable. Is this just too much to ask from these bunch of buffoons? With over 30 States Governors, they are still scared, I bet they should be!

The US example is the most silly and insincere excuse ever. The election he was referring to was an election held in 2000, when mobile devices were rudimentary and Internet services practically unavailable or very cumbersome. The election dispute was in a few districts in one state Florida. This senator is now using that minor one time dispute to excuse Nigeria using an archaic and fraudulent electoral system that encourages rigging.

ThiefnubuBandit:
Imagine the type of people you share country with.

Are you then saying the 2023 elections were credible free and fair? Was it more credible than the 2007 election that Yaradua who won admitted to being flawed? Nigerians are some of the most dishonest people on the planet.

helinues:
That's an obsolete talk.

Inverter, solar panel, power bank can handle electricity issue

Startlink satellite can handle internet coverage even inside a hole.

Those who are beneficiaries of rigging will never support the e transmission of results

Very lame excuse. To transmit election result in real time is no big deal, its not much different from downloading and uploading a WhatsApp message, all you need is mobile device and an Internet connection. So the senator is just making silly excuses.

steadygo:
I think monarchy is may be the best system of government. It allows for a leader to dedicate their entire life to serve you whereas in a presidential system, leaders only have a few years in office and can be easily influenced or even installed by the corrupt wealthy individuals. Going deeper, in a monarchy, the current monarch can pick an heir from birth and prepare them from the earliest stage of life to become a capable ruler. The heir also has a first-person view to the reigning monarch's rule; they are able to learn directly, every day, by watching them lead. Monarchy gives us the best prospects for a great leader. What do you think?

History has shown that monarch eventually become despots and succession present its own set of problems. Monarchies eventually fail as there they fall out with the people.

casualobserver:
The best summary of the Wike Fubara situation.

Lies and dishonesty.

Wike does not rely on voting to influence elections. Historically, Wike is a master rigger. He employs thuggery, blackmail and threats to influence elections. In the last elections he was heard on audio threatening to kill INEC officials who did not manipulate elections in his favour. How does it make sense for people to vote in PDP for governorship elections and then turn around and vote APC in presidential, in an election held on the same day, time, and the same polling booth. No be juju be that? So the whole rivers state electorate obey Wike's orders on who to vote for like zombies?
Wike had always been the master rigger behind PDP outrageous figures that is usually posted by rivers state in previous elections. Tinubu is hoping Wike would not only deploy his rigging machinery to rig Rivers State but also to rig Abuja, which lost the last elections to Labour party.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16g2FU2brmU?si=jRulvIgaF6K3h8TF

Dalohad:
Yes I remember your rabid support for APC and Buhari in 2015.

All our pleas to make you all see that they were wolves in sheep clothing.

All my predictions about the tumbling of the economy came to pass.

Though, it helped me make strategic decisions for personal and financial development. I have since earned a PhD within those years and work of International universities that pay in hard currency.

Being foresighted is not different from having common sense.

Buhari's cluelessness made me 1500% richer.

Congratulations my brother, I am really happy for you. Political difference aside, we should all work to making Nigeria in particular and black Africa as a whole united and Prosperous.

I was not that lucky, I was burden by an immediate and extended family that all depend on my. I could not just pack up my bags and leave. I work day and night to make sure everyone survives.

Anyway, aluta continua. One way or the other we will survive.

Dalohad:
How far?

It seems your political views have radically metamorphosed in the last 5 years?

My political views have remained relatively consistent over time. I initially supported Muhammadu Buhari because I believed he represented sincerity and discipline in leadership, based on his reputation as a firm and uncompromising military head of state. That judgment, in my view, proved mistaken. My support for the APC at the time was largely driven by that belief and by dissatisfaction with the PDP.

However, my assessment has since changed. I now consider the APC’s performance to be worse than what I expected from the PDP era. I perceive corruption to have deepened rather than improved, and I believe governance has shifted toward policies that disproportionately burden ordinary Nigerians.

Key concerns include the removal of fuel and other subsidies, the introduction or expansion of taxation affecting daily economic activities, charges on electronic transactions, and the possibility of more aggressive tax enforcement affecting personal finances. In my view, these measures have been implemented without a corresponding expansion of social services or safety nets that would justify the increased financial burden on citizens.

The people have been clamouring for a change in our electoral laws for decades. They have been asking for an implementation of the Uwais committee on electoral reforms, they have been clamouring for the electronic voting or at least electronic transmission of result in real time to allow all Nigerians monitor the elections, all these to make our elections more transparentand credible, so more Nigerians can participate in the elections. But what did the government do? The retained the old fraudulent system, that allows INEC to announce results arbitrarily in the middle of the night. They just told Nigerians to shut up and keep quiet.

Overall, I feel that the relationship between government and the public has become imbalanced, with citizens treated primarily as revenue sources rather than stakeholders with meaningful influence over governance and policy direction.

Dpaulie:
What Iran has isn't enough to defend herself bro

All you need to defend yourself are determined and able men, ready to die defending the country. Afghanistan and Vietnam has proved that bombs, missiles and guns do not win wars, determined men do.

AguluLiar:
I

Our blothers don dey fear the defeat dem go suffer come 2027.
See him talking about rigging when the elections have not taken.

You go wail in perpetuity!

All hail the great Jagaban!

No need to wait for election to take place before you know the election is already rigged. Just go back and read the electoral law. The electoral law itself is rigged. Since Yaradua complained of rigged election, and the justice Uwais report on electoral reform has been discarded, its has been victory for the highest rigger

Holdup247:
you can call him what ever you want, but be rest assured that he will stop obi again in the Niger Delta region in 2027 general election... Obi is going no where when WIKE is in town...

And that would but food on the table, pay your children's school fees, or cure your typhoid you contracted as a result of drinking pure water?

tctrills:
Iran has actually been very stupid that's why their economy is in free fall. They are fight the wrong battles.

Their weakness is not the weak economy, afterall they have been under US and UN sanctions for decades, and the economy did not collapse. It the fractionalisation of the country - between the Islamist fundamentalists and moderates, between the government and its people. Iran is a house divided among itself. A United Iran would be very difficult to defeat.

symbianDON:
honestly, I wish Nigerians would do this. Boycott the darn elections.....after all the 'winner' is already known.

Whether you boycott or not, they will declare themselves winners. So we should accept that we are in bondage, we are conquered.