₦airaland Forum

abc115:
You can say that again
God Bless President Bola Tinubu
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

Amen. This highway was conceived under Shehu Shagari. Many President later, nada till PBAT came along.

Ditto Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway conceived under OBJ and abandoned till PBAT took charge with his commitment to complete several huge but abandoned legacy infrastructure projects that will have immense positive influence on the socioeconomic growth and development of Nigeria.

E no go better for hateful souls and and toxic enemies of progress.


https://von.gov.ng/nigerian-government-to-complete-sokoto-badagry-superhighway-project/

Nigerian Government to Complete Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway Project
Aanya Igomu and Ismail Umar

January 24, 20260284



The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Community Engagement (North-West), Abdullahi Tanko-Yakasai, said the project is a clear demonstration of the President’s dedication to developing critical national infrastructure.

He noted that although the superhighway was first conceived during the administration of former President Shehu Shagari in the 1980s, President Tinubu is now actualising the long-delayed vision.

Yakasai urged citizens to support the administration’s drive toward completing legacy and people-oriented projects, adding that the superhighway would transform communities along its corridor by improving transportation, agriculture, trade, and security.

nedu666:
Sokoto badagry high way without location can be any road

The picture is even of a road in Mali and not Nigeria. Happy now?

Ttalk:
Baby can cry when he needs food and not when succulent breast full of milk is put in his mouth. Any wailer who wail on this thread despite this good news deserve e- thunder to strike him down. Tinubu is delivering from every angle, nagging child better behave

Baba, PBAT is too much and even his detractors know that. Just that a groups of people exist who live to hate others to the extent they can never see good in anything those they hate do.

Abeg fashi dem ojare and take consolation in the fact they are in deep pain seeing all the giant strides of PBAT in an office their Agulu messiah will never smell.

AMINDA:
Snake oil merchants. How many kilometers have been constructed so far and how much has been expended? The public demands to know. Coastal road is at Kilometer 30. Give us the breakdown of this one.

Lol. You do understand that a bitter and hateful soul is life's greatest curse because it is with you 24/7 and 365 days a year?

I feel terrible for those who have bitter and hateful souls. Perhaps you know someone who does?

helinues:
Nigeria military are ready to assist USA in Minnesota.

We are concerned as well

Lol. You want to send out troops to die in that Jungle where literally every adult is armed? 😂

Brennan clarified that US intelligence would not be limited to protecting one religious group.

Lol. USA has eventually seen through the self-serving ruse of the 'lobbyists' people to now be a respectful and appreciative partner of Nigeria and the PBAT government in the fight against Jihadist terror in Nigeria.

This will be depressing news and development for the 'lobbyists' who wanted to use "Christian genocide" to force an invasion of Nigeria they feel may remove "Yoruba President" from power.

They have tried everything and, sadly, this effort too has failed.

ZombieDredd:
madam, you have no moral right to critic the US when you support depraved individuals who have done and are currently doing worse.

It's hypocritical.

Bro, go and sit down. Parroting the same flimsy argument over and over, without backing it up with logical and insightful arguments, makes you a charlatan.

To back my point that you are shallow, and perhaps a self-hater of your nation and black skin plus African origin, show where I have appointed myself the violent and regime-changing judge, jury and executioner of the entire earth, especially with a focus on bullying small nations I know do not have the might to fight back, for you to claim I have no moral right to criticise Trump and the USA.

At least, even with problems in my own nation, myself, my President and leaders have never arrogated upon ourselves the right to be the God-appointed authority to 'democratise' and 'civilise' the world when such terms are just excuses USA uses to advance her imperialism and cynical asset theft/comandeering against others.

We saw this displayed vividly and recently with Venezuela and Trumps threat over Greenland the entire world stood against to make the vile and unapologetic dictator back down.

Is it Nigeria sponsoring regime change and execution of heads of State in Africa fro decades as the CIA has done to further America's imperialist interests?

Show where Nigeria has ever behaved like the USA and I will agree I have no moral right to talk simply because my nation has challenges.

Whereas you show self-hatred with how you miss the simple and crucial fact Nigeria is not and has bever been a worldwide bully that makes up rules and blatant lies ("weapons of Mass destruction" against Iraq for example) to go around the world killing, maiming and destroying lives and nations as a cyninical and callous imperialist gaint pretending to be a Saint.

ZombieDredd:
Remove the light of wood from your country eyes before condemning the speck that is in US.

This is hypocritical

Even if ICE kills 50 people, which is wrong, they are still better than nigeria police and immigration.

Focus on your country and fix electricity first, leave trump

Balanced adults know how to maturely focus on the matter at hand and refrain from whataboutism.

You make a senseless point suggesting Nigerians, because we have our own challenges, cannot speak on the wrongdoing of a nation that has appointed herself the supreme policeman judge, jury and executioners of the world.

Plus militarily dictatorial and self-appointed authority of the universe at least against weak nations and blocs that exclude North Korea, China and Russia, EU etal.

The USA under Trump currently appears a bully trampling on weak nation while always capitulation to fellow giants with nuclear armament.

To whom much is given much is expected. I have no interest in the USA at all. Point is that the evil direction the nation is going in, at home under Trump, should be highlighted because the USA has no hesitation, often driven by hidden agendas, to destructively interfere in the affairs of sovereign nations of the world while pretending she is holier than all others and wishing to "democratise" and "civilise" the rest of us.

At least Nigeria acknowledges her problems and does not worsen her own image by going around invading, bombing and bullying weak nation while our situation at home stinks.

Validated:
All we know is that there is Christian genocide and we need the USA to help us end it.
Op, you can cry all you want. Where were you when your likes were burning 19000 churches, not 1900, 190000. Where were you when the Islamic Boko Haram were killing Christians all over the North. Where is Deborah, where is Leah Sharibu, where all the revered sisters beheaded. Where was you condemnation of all these atrocities. You are fixated on one random killer that will be arrested and prosecuted. How many have you arrested in Nigeria? All the masked armed Nigeria fircemen that killed Igbo boys, how many have you arrested or prosecuted?

Something is wrong with you.Coming from a member of an ethnic group who always claim "injustice" is routinely meted out to you and your people, can't you simply watch the video and give your view on it, and it alone, if a decent human being still capable of seeing ahead clearly?

You lot shout injustice always yet perpetually let yourselves down speaking as if two wrongs make a right when you should be the most staunch against injustice meted out to anyone if you truly resent injustice and are genuine victims of it.

Must everything, even when such does not minimally concern you, be used to direct thoughts and attention to your own perceived 'unjust' victimhood?

nobaga:
https://bbc.com/news/videos/cg4e0r1el5yo

Bystander video footage has captured the moments before the killing of 37-year-old Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers.

The killing comes less than three weeks after Renee Good was shot dead by an immigration agent in the city.

BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.

Ros Atkins' report contains distressing images.

Verification by Emma Pengelly, Paul Brown and Benedict Garman. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Video produced by Tom Joyner.
3 hours ago
United States

I dare Nairalanders and Nigerians, even those who gleefully petition and 'lobby' the USA about "Christian genocide"in Nigeria, to watch the video from the BBC and dispute korokoro evidence showing the USA is becoming Hitler-like with the way a single brutal character, unchecked by good men who are watching and doing nothing, is carrying the USA along in mass evil. I.e Donald Trump.

A USA Government spokesperson evilly lied and blatantly twisted the truth video reveals to claim the victim had a gun and was an "armed suspect", to justify his assault and murder.

Whereas the video shows that is a total lie and confirm Trump is simply a Pied Piper playing an hypnotic evil tune from his flute too many Americans than is healthy are dancing to rather than resisting to then have the clarity of mind to throw him out asap.

Ofunaofu:
WizardOfNG was in the dungeon.


To him, it didn’t matter.
What mattered then, to him, Tinubu, his allies, and fellow change-chanters was the betrayal of the South.

Who betrayed the South other than Jonathan who did nothing for the region while in power and ended up being a stooge running a Fulani government by proxy because he was a total weakling and coward who could not speak when his Fulani overlords merely frowned in his direction?


Una no dey shame? Make una dey fear God na so you can admit the truth and shame the devil.

How many reforms beneficial to the long term greatness of Nigeria did GEJ stand firm on, once the North said no to him?

Conversely, and desirably, we have all seen Tinubu, proper leaders rather than accidental one GEJ is, defy the North countless times to implement his reforms to make the born-to-rule Mullahs up North understand that he is an independent President in power to serve all Nigerians rather than kowtow to the whims and caprices of the hegemonist North alone.

Wouldn't take a Rocket scientist to reveal the obvious to you if you were not prejudiced and biased beyond redemption.

jogojogo:
Leave that myopic being
Even GEJ had moved on

I just don't get them. GEJ is a hero now? Even GEJ will go to his grave regretting how he pandered to the North, at the expense of doing virtually zero for the South , only to be booted out.

Meanwhile Tinubu that is leading bravely and has done things beneficial for all Nigeria GEJ could dare not touch out of fear of his Fulani slave masters (fuel subsidy removal, floatation of Naira, lagos Calabar coastal highway and much more) is ironically enjoying far more support and loyalty from Northern leaders than Jonathan could buy with billions of dollars.

Check the identity of Northerners against Tinubu. They are disgruntled, displaced and disenfranchised elements cut off from free loot ( like Malami and Babachir Lawal etal) they believed was their birthright entitlement whereas Northerners in lofty public and politic offices, and with eyes on brighter Nigerian political future, are all behind Tinubu to include Atiku's own son.

I still believe outstanding and transformational leadership is in the DNA, i.e Tinubu, and not accidental ,as is the case with GEJ, nor opportunist and charlatan-like as obtains with Peter Obi and Atiku.

OneCandleAway:
When Tinubu. Betrayed the south to support Buhari because of his own interests, where were you?

Your knowledge is fractured. Tinubu stepped in to stop the greedy and dishonorable Jonathan, already on borrowed time belonging to the North, setting Nigeria on fire with his ambition to gain 9 years in power when he would not have even gotten one second in Aso Rock had Yar Adua not died.

If you were trained to see thing clearly and objectively from your household and community, rather than being brainwashed to view your own as victims always, you'd know Tinubu did Nigeria a favour.

Jonathan was the real thoughtless and myopic villain who knows the North, with terrorism thrown in, don't joke with Presidency yet tried to gain 9 years in power under their slot when he had already enjoyed five years as President that would not have come his way bar Yar Adua's unfortunate death.

I don't know how many times this reality that played out before all our eyes must be repeated to you all while you continue speaking as if GEJ had Southern legitimacy of 9 years in Aso Rock Tinubu "robbed" him of.

Cyberterror:
2027 already done and settled. Jagaban army commanding 30 states into the battle, no wonder envy wants to finish Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar.

Baba it is done. It is fight to finish against Atiku-style Fulani Imperialism , even sensible Fulanis are joining Tinubu to fight, in 2027.

I will still insist, in future, Atiku's son will come out to confess he stood on the side of equity, justice and what is best for the peace and unity of Nigeria when he rejected his own father to pledge support for working to ensure PBAT remains in power.

Nations have split and encountered serious setbacks, even bloodily and very painfully , when people who had power to make a difference did nothing to repel the ambition of callous fascist, bigots, dictators and imperialist like Mussolini, Hitler etal.

What Atiku is attempting to achieve as a Fulani man, i.e directly replace another Fulani in 2023 when it was the clear and rightful turn of the South and now seeking to try same again in 2027, is leaving a bitter taste in the mouth of virtually all leader thinking right and looking at the long term future of Nigeria beyond the political lifespan of Tinubu, Atiku , Obi etal

gbaskiboy:
Let them all joined APC am quite sure come 2027 APC will lose some states no matter what.

Some of you don't get it. The people who think and lead for you, plus have the money and influence to get things done, are all united against Fulani Imperialist attempt at dishonorable hijack of power when they have had their eight years in power courtesy of others, especially the Yorubas, who behaved equitably and supported the North honourably whereas Atiku, Tambuwal, Malami etal do not wish to be reciprocally honourable or respectful towards other Nigerian.

The battle is on to prove that the rest of us are not slaves of the Fulanis or "second class in my own land" in Nyesom Wike's words after Fulani conspired against him in 2022 primaries of PDP that should have been for Southerners only per rotation agreement and assuming Atiku, Sule Lamido, Tambuwal, Bala Mohammed etal were Fulanis who are respectful and equitable towards Southerners as equal stakeholders in Nigeria.

The rotation agreement was put in place, after the horrendous saga against the SW and Abiola the North was 100% responsible for, to prevent the dishonour and born-to-rule supremacist disdain the North had shown in the past and has always thought she would get away with against the rest of us.

Today, all leaders 'calibrated' right, whether from the North or South and perhaps even Atiku's own son who rejected his dad for Tinubu, are awake to the need to defeat an arrogantly evil usurpation agenda Nigeria will never recover from.

Watch as Tinubu wins easily in 2027 because the elite and political leaders of Nigeria, from all ethnic groups, will do and spend anything to defeat an agenda they know may break Nigeria and threaten the respective empires they have built that needs 'one Nigeria' to survive.

The election won't even be close Tinubu will win easily with the money and political might of Nigeria behind him. Na me predict am here.

AMINDA:
Lol. How many times will this one join the APC na?

He has to keep up the suspense to multiply tears of enemies of Asiwaju na. Hope you understand since you are in that group. 😎

Everything repellent and societally backwards, with Almajiris system being the worst, you will find in the North.

I am.glad many are now finding their voice, after Trump's intervention, to condemn the self-destructive practices and ways of the North that is now becoming a serious threat and menace to the entire Nigeria.

Hopefully we will see action to end the Almajiris system and not condemning rhetoric alone from Northerners who have the power to make a difference.

Ukpaka:
‘Guard the Forests Like the Pipelines’: Northern Elders Urge FG to Award Security Contracts to Armed Herdsmen
https://247ureports.com/2026/01/guard-the-forests-like-the-pipelines-northern-elders-urge-fg-to-award-security-contracts-to-armed-herdsmen/
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KADUNA — A coalition of Northern elder groups has sparked national debate by proposing that the Federal Government award formal security contracts to armed Fulani herdsmen to patrol Nigeria’s restive forests. The elders argue that formalizing the presence of herdsmen as a specialized “Forest Guard” is a necessary step to curb the wave of banditry and mass abductions currently paralyzing the North-West.

In a formal statement issued on Friday, January 23, 2026, the elder groups questioned what they termed a “security double standard” in the Federal Government’s approach to regional instability. They specifically drew a parallel between the billions of naira paid to ex-militants in the Niger Delta for pipeline surveillance and the lack of a similar investment in Northern forest security.

These people have lost their minds. Never heard anything so ludicrous. Forest guards should come from the indigenes stock of the area.
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Fulani herdsman can be armed to guard Sambisa and other forest in the NE and NW. Nonsense.

aariwa:
British racists set igbos back by a 100 years by forcing together people who don’t know how to progress and progressive minded igbos. The way forward is division because even if Peter Obi become president and transforms Nigeria it won’t still stop them from hating and envying igbos and the next person will out of hate enter there and destroy everything he did so the best way forward is division because we don’t have anything in common with them

You people are fond of wild and megalomaniac talk reality never remotely verifies. How did the British succeed preventing you turning the SE, you are in total charge of, into Singapore and Dubai combined considering you are "progress-minded" and others aren't?

Person wey know way they get lost merely because he is told to ride a bike rather than walk?

By the way, can you tell the forum, even as you have ascribed the tag to your ethnic group, those that all Nigerians call "progressives" because I know it sure ain't you lot.

Una delusions of grandeur that nevers matches reality on ground must be the eight wonder of the world.

Streetinvestor2:
Anything of SE and SW in the same sentences must be a joke taken too far.We have nothing in common

What is wrong with you and your need for rabble rousing always? Are you not intelligent enough to understand the bolded is why they have come together?

Their united support for de-amalgamation is a way to say we can unite to agree we don't belong together and then separate in a peaceful and orderly manner without bloodshed or anarchy.

AMINDA:
Quick question, did the South vote Tinubu in 2023? No they didn't. They voted Obi. Tinubu only won 4 Yoruba states but became president with Fulani votes after running on muslim-muslim ticket. Fast forward to today and he has disenfranchised Obi from the Labour party and destroyed the PDP that already zoned it's ticket to the South. Convince me that Tinubu is the choice of the Southern electorates.

My friend, go and sit your turncoat azz down somewhere.

If you can't give a cogent explanation for supporting Atiku to truncate the rotation agreement and shortchange the South, when North enjoyed 8 years with the full and undiluted support of the South, then stop talking because it is obvious you are a dishonorable person too like your hero Atiku.

Instead take a look in the mirror and stare at a man who has totally lost his pride, independence, ways and sense of shame for servitude of dishonorable supremacists and hegemonists who feel they were born to rule the rest of us and can do as they please anytime.

SmartPolician:
One mod will take this junk to the front page now. A lady without an identity shares a story online and Eye of Lagos grabbed it, ran with it and posted it on Nairaland.

I am really surprised at how gullible people are today. Content creators, seeking site traffic, will throw garbage fabrication out there and Nigerians will start discussing it emotionally and even fighting each other.


Those who have empty and non-independent minds, waiting to be hijacked by opportunists and con artists, are going to be the biggest victim of the monetised AI and social media age.

AMINDA:
Continue using their heads to crack coconut. Afterall, they are politically naïve. If Tinubu believed all that talk about "turn of the South", he wouldn't have destroyed the Labour party to disenfranchise Obi while his hirelings go on an attacking spree against Jonathan when rumours of his entering the race gained traction. Even hirelings will soon call Makinde a betrayer if he eventually runs under the PDP. This shows that "turn of the South" is just another way of saying "turn of Tinubu" and no one else.

As for the North, the North is never totally out of power and will not lose out in all scenarios and permutations. Just different power blocs in the North. A Northerner is currently Vice and power will return back to the North whether in 2027 or 2031. The same cannot be said of a region in the South, if they don't play their cards right and with strategy. Tinubu is still courting the North with much gusto because he knows he needs their numbers to stand a chance. Facts are stubborn.

Bro, go and sit down. If real people dey talk dey hide your face. You are no different to Daniel Kanu fighting for Abacha to remain in power while all decent and well-meaning Nigerians wanted the tyrant gone.

Imagine a southerner who is fervently prayerful and supportive of Atiku, an arrogant and born-to-rule Fulani supremacists who think the Presidency of Nigeria is his birthright, to become the President of Nigeria when it is the bonafide turn of the South, and the North has had her eight years in power, merely because you hate Tinubu and Yorubas.

You are not worth taking seriously bro. No Southerner hateful enough of his fellow Southerner to then side with a Northerner usurping the turn of the South, when you will never find a single Northerner willing to support a Southern leader doing same to the North, is worth the respect of proper men who are progressive, happy, winning in life and seeing the big picture.

Penguin2:
This perspective, and the fear of what Atiku might do with power considering how much he has suffered for it, is why I’m a staunch campaigner of Obi or Nothing (Tinubu).

I don’t like Tinubu and what he represents especially the fact that he favours toutism and prefers keeping the system gagged under his control than push for institutional reforms to bring about strong institutions like our elections, the judiciary, et Al.

But I do like Tinubu for the reforms he has brought biz fuel subsidy removal, Naira-dollar unification and even the Tax law. The highest beneficiaries of what we had before now were northerners which is why they are fighting him.

I also see how Tinubu is systematically breaking the northern stranglehold on levers of power in Nigeria in a way that I’m certain that if Tinubu is to complete 8 years, the north will never be as powerful as they used to be.

Now, my fear is that should we hand power back to Atiku, we would have undone all these things and the north will return in an even more vicious way than they have ever been.

It’s the reason I believe strongly that the southerners and even northern Christians who are part of the ADC coalition will not just sit there and watch Atiku bulldoze his way to the ticket.

Hence, justifying my very first assertion that anything is possible.

The bolded is the koko of the matter that only those progressive and critical-thinking, beyond the influence of ethno-religious or political bias, can discern.

If we truly want a Nigerian that will be developed to it's full potentials built on the spirit of equity, merit and deployment of square pegs in square hole then Atiku or any Northerner must not be President of Nigeria in 2027 that is the turn of the South after Buhari's eight years the South honourably assisted the North to gain and complete.

They are only desperately seeking the Presidency because Tinubu's reform, which is extremely good for the future of Nigeria and our generations unborn, is inimical to their short term lust for unfettered access to the wealth of Nigeria they loot copiously, and with nil returns for Nigeria and Nigerians, as Malami has shown.

Nigerians need to think smart to shun emotions and historic hatred of others to focus on what is best for our future and that of our generations unborn.

IamtheTruth1:
And you feel big organization can't play autopsy to reduce the damage they have to pay or even their stocks self.

Thought about that?

Some of you just like to be contrarian and paranoid for the sake of it with your "big organisation" conspiracy theories that make no sens.

Is the right of the family to an independent and family-requested autopsy, regarding finding the cause of death of their own direct relative, removed or non-existent? If not then why are they avoiding that option to be making noise on social media?

Does the family appear one that cannot afford an independent autopsy costing between $2,000 to $6,000 and are now reduced to petitioning the public, on social media, to be their private investigators in search of witnesses on the flight?

Foul play happened that Ethiopian air "covered up" and no witness was decent enough to go to the authorities about it, out of their own human decency and free will, to the extent the family must now be announcing for witnesses to come forward and testify?

Is that how life work? I.e humanity is so irresponsible and wicked several passengers on a flight witnessed 'cover up" foul play that led to a death and they all decided to remain silent?

Shall we even go further to say Ethiopian airline paid off all witnesses on the flight to remain silent since you Nigerians like wild conspiracy theories in place of seeing simple solutions and explanations in front of you?

To be honest, as much as one wished to respect the grief of the bereaved, this does look like an amateurish attempt to cash out at the expense of Ethiopian Airline.

Lekby25:
Yes, natural death can take away 70yr old woman through exhaustion, [b]that is not a strange occurrence. [/b]Who remembers the late great musician Onyeka Onwenu a little bit above 70. She sang beautifully at an event, with no sign of sickness, sat down after to sip water, and collapsed on the seat there, was rushed to the hospital immediately, but eventually gave up, what do you say of that.

Precisely. Why rule out what science can reveal to be insisting on "cover up" and foul play?

OriOko88:
Most of these governors are selfish. Only God knows wat Tinubu is promising them,cos I'm very sure they're joining not because Tinubu is doing well. E get why

It is you Tinubu is not "doing well" to because you don't have an informed and firm grasp of what doing well, for a President of Nigeria, entails.

"Doing well" , for any Nigerian President, must never be about sustaining the regime of cheap and subsidized fuel, abetted with subsidies in many other sections, that Nigerian leaders use as weaponised tools they deploy to make you accepting of and even praise-singing of the poverty you are forever entrenched in and will never escape, if the status quo obtains, as was the case with OBJ, GEJ and Buhari.

You want to develop as a people and nation like Britons and Britain or Singaporeans and Singapore respectively?

Then make the conscious effort to educate yourself and gain more knowledge to note such can only be achieved with holistic and fundamental reforms that requires sacrifice from us all.

When Nigeria is the best nation she can be and you are the best human resources you can be also, after unavoidably and initially painful reforms bear fruit, then you will be very thankful and even admit yourself Tinubu did well.

Far more so than all the cowards before him, lacking political will, who shoved stale fish in your mouth to keep you silent rather than teach you how to fish for the finest the Sea has to offer.

bewla:
Let's not make mounting out of mole
Rip to you mother
People die every day

Pls don't tannish this air line image oo

Let's jejeli look in to this case well
So that it does not spoil business for honest people o

Well-said. In fact I decided to fem out of respect for the dead yet if we inspect issues critically it just seems like sensationalism from Nigerians who, as superstitious people, believe something or someone ( Village people being their favourite suspects) must be responsible for unfortunate thing that happens to them.

The daughter of the deceased wrote:

My Mum Died in Ethiopian Airlines Flight from Abuja to US and the Airline is Covering Up Cause of Her Death, Adiele Jacqueline Cries Out for Help

Why would she make such an unfounded allegation against an Airline and her crew on that particular flight?

Is Ethiopian airline known for a history of this? Is it plausible an airline, on a flight with many witnesses, wilfully causes the death of a passenger and then decides to engage in a cover-up conspiracy?

What is science there for if we are going to ignore it and be pandering to wild accusations an autopsy could bring closure to in a day?

Let's look at the fact. She died in the air on a flight from Nigeria to the USA. It was her dead body that arrived USA.

What nation is it easiest to petition the authorities about foul play leading to death, and then gain a conclusive autopsy detailing cause of death, than the USA?

She simply needs to prove her case of Ethiopian Airline "covering up cause" of her mother's death and US authority will do the needful.

Yet it seems she rejected that option to go online blackening the image of Ethiopian Airline when, as a family, they neglected doing what will bring clarity and answers to be chasing an insistence on foul play over a death that may have been entirely natural.

My suspicion is that the family have petitioned appropriate US authority who have told them they do not suspect foul play yet they won't accept that and move on.

Always difficult to comment when someone has lost a loved one, because decent folks appreciate they are grieving and temporarily disconnected from reality.

Yet it is important that those bereaved manage their grief without allowing it to become an unpleasant nuisance toward those totally innocent of wrongdoing in the death of their beloved relative.

Penguin2:
I like how you traced Atiku’s antecedent to help you draw a conclusion on him and his character. And your point of view makes even more sense when you consider the fact that 2027 is most probably his last chance considering his age.

But my point remains that anything is possible.

It is not impossible that Atiku has learnt something in his 2023 sojourn that that unwritten consensus of power rotation between North and South is stronger than he imagined it. And if he has learned anything, it is possible he might wanna give way for Obi considering that the southern sentiment is still very much prevalent.

Again, consider the role of stakeholders. I believe Atiku insisted on contesting in 2023 because some northern stakeholders was behind him. But the atmosphere is seeming like that is no longer the situation and I doubt Atiku would want to go against them.

You are correct that it is indeed possible Atiku has learnt from the fallout over his 2023 attempt to immediately replace a Fulani who had just spent 8 years in power when the rotation agreement forbids that since no individual's personal ambition should be greater than what assures the peace and ethnic harmony of Nigeria.

In fact I still insist his son joined APC and pledged support for Tinubu because, as a young and fledgling Northern politician with hopes of a bright future in Nigerian politics, he does not wish to align with his dad's polarising and utterly dishonorable ambition.

The whole world saw the South do their part honourably to accord Buhari and the North their two mamixum term of 4 years each in Aso Rock.

Atiku's son knows he will be lumbered with his dad's treachery and lack of honour, signalling a career-ending damnation of his political ambition as the children of Abacha suffered to become political pariah, if Atiku runs and perhaps win with that development then signalling the beginning of the end of Nigeria as most young Northern politicians would not want.

Yorubas have in recent years made it crystal clear they want regional autonomy ditto South South and Middle Belt. Igbos have also been consistent about Biafra.

An Atiku win simply mean several region will now be united agitating for one and the same thing against Fulanis with the implications being that no one will return to the 'one Nigeria' negotiation table , as they did after the North did Abiola dirty, because this development will be the second major power-grab treachery of the North other regions will find difficult to swallow or accept.

The hawks, from all ethnic groups, behind Atiku( with Dele Momodu and Kenneth Okonkwo being quintessential examples) are simply after their own selfish needs and not thinking of the long term consequences of what he is attempting. Let's hope the few wise heads around him convince him to do the right thing.