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Ogun State is probably the biggest “big for nothing” state in Southern Nigeria. Only Edo State has given it serious competition lately.

What makes it even more disappointing is its proximity to Lagos. You'd expect Ogun, especially communities close to Lagos, to have benefited massively from that advantage and developed much faster. But that simply hasn't happened.

For a state with so much history, heritage and potential, Ogun has largely underperformed. Yet somehow, there are still people singing the praises of these politicians and even giving them all sorts of endearing nicknames.

Honestly, it's disgraceful.

Zonefree:
I kid you not, Verydarkman cannot win ward chairmanship in his community. You think politics is to set camera and ring light. If you're in doubt, ask Chief priest.

Why can't he win?

Una matter just tire me for this country. Everything is about money and thats why crime is on the rise.

Its a shame how increasingly commercialised relationships have become in Nigeria. Yes, money matters. Financial hardship can create enormous pressure in a marriage, but the idea that if a marriage loses its spark, the man simply needs to make more money is a shallow diagnosis of a complex problem.
Money can pay rent, provide comfort and reduce stress, but it cannot automatically buy love, intimacy, respect, trust, loyalty, communication or sexual compatibility. Yet we are increasingly creating a culture where every relationship problem is treated as a financial problem. The marriage is struggling? Make more money. There is no intimacy? Make more money. Your partner is unhappy? Throw more money at it.

It's like how the Nigerian government throws a bag of rice at every problem.

This mentality allows people to avoid the difficult work of being better partners. Nobody examines their behaviour, communication, emotional availability, selfishness or contribution to the marriage.
The truth is, financial provision and relationship competence are not the same thing. A person can be an excellent provider and a terrible spouse. There are wealthy people in miserable marriages, just as there are couples with modest means who have genuine friendship, love and peace.
I am not romanticising poverty. Love cannot pay bills, feed children or solve financial irresponsibility. Money is important. But it should be a tool for building a better life together and not a substitute for effort, emotional maturity and genuine partnership.

We need to stop teaching people that becoming rich is the cheat code to a successful marriage. Make money, absolutely. But also learn how to communicate, show affection, resolve conflict, respect your partner and build together. Otherwise, we risk creating marriages and relationships that are financially comfortable but emotionally bankrupt.

ManknowThyself:
Arsenal buy me VO9 instead of this guy Abeg.

VO9 go deliver pass this guy for Arsenal shirt.

Lie.

Alvarez is a better player. Alvarez has mad dead ball skills and can take on players. These are two skills Osimhen lacks.

Mind you, Osimhen too is a very good player by his own rights.

Streamz:
Dangote is sharp. Why is our president not there to discuss too?

I no wan laugh abeg.

Which president?

demmy79:
Payment of full tuition gives applicants upperhamd

Full or 1st year please?

I'm worried about pursuing refund if things don't work out

HacheNoire:
The dumbest president since the creation of mankind finally got the attention he has been craving.

Same morafvcker could not put same flag at half mast for dead US soldiers in the Iran war.

You cannot make this fvckin shit up!

Trump is the dumbest creation of God.

Hope you know your hate for him won't stop his obliteration of terrorists from every corner of the world.

Becasue that's your angst with him.

Trump is dumb, but you support Tinubu who can't stitch two sentences together.

Make it make sense.

Vows to Hunt Down Their Killers

This is Super story. A life of strife and sorrow.

CalabarSamurai:
Pay that full tuition fee or do an AIP which means you have all the monies required but you want to get the visa before paying, you will of course pay the full tuition fee within a stipulated time before being given the visa.

No part-payment in NZ.

Please how's AIP done?

I thought it automatically applies to anyone who didn't pay full tuition before application.

These are the people ruining and bastardising the name of this country.

Transnational criminals

Britishpea:
Yari right now looks probably like the richest politician fromthe North and one of the most respected politicians from the north..

He's not just a Dg, strategically, a power broker for the Northerners

Uzodima is a silent mover.

What's his line of business?

If Tinubu ever gets on the stage to to debate Fuel Subsidy with ADC, I'll give 5 persons 10k each.

If anyone shares the link of such debate whenever it happens and I don't keep my word, may heavens punish me.

I hope that one Friday, I will log into Nairaland and come across an Islamic thread that does not merely distance itself from terrorism when convenient, but unequivocally condemns it in all its forms. A thread that openly denounces every act of terror, murder, intimidation, kidnapping, or violence carried out in the name of Muhammad or justified through Islam.

Until then, keep joking.


Not with caveats. Not with “but what about…” Not with attempts to deflect responsibility by pointing to the crimes of others. Just a clear and principled statement: terrorism is wrong, the murder of innocent people is wrong, and no religious figure, scripture, ideology, or grievance can justify violence against the innocent.

That is the kind of moral clarity I hope to see more often.

MICHEALADEX:
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Even the igbos voted against their own in a presidential election and today they brag with it and still call the Yorubas betrayers.

Which election was that, Kindly humor me.

seunowa:
When obi had over ninety percent votes cast in his favour in South -east in 2023, it was not rotten politics.

My focus is on the claim "He told me that if he wanted to contest, he would say it himself and he would not be the Yoruba man who would be used against another Yoruba man like Asiwaju".

I dont care if the entire SW votes for Tinubu, so spare me the rotten rhetorics. I'm saying that campaigns and electoral choices should be hinged on the ability to deliver and embodying wholesome character.

If what Fayose claims is true, the thinking essentially becomes: “I am Yoruba, Tinubu is Yoruba, therefore I should not allow myself to be used against him.” and this is precisely the kind of rotten politics that has kept this country stagnant or reteogressive and the kind of reasoning Nigeria needs to outgrow.

A citizens political obligation should not be to protect a president because they belong to the same ethnic group or religion. It should be to protect the interests of Nigerians and the constitutional order, regardless of who occupies the presidency.

Mind you, there is nothing inherently wrong with Yoruba solidarity, Igbo solidarity, Hausa solidarity, or any other form of cultural affinity. The problem begins when ethnic identity becomes a political criterion for determining who deserves support, criticism, opposition or protection.

Sometimes I wonder if the black man is really r3ady for representative politics or whether the British left too early.

What constitutes "nuisance" in this context and what law is there against it.

What constitutes "nuisance" in this context and what law is there against it.

You won't tolerate carspotters, but can tolerate agberos and thugs that hace maimed lives and destroyed properties

Becasue they are mostly hopeless buffoons whose lives have lost its essence.

Many of them are littered here regurgitating nonsense.

I always wonder the inspiration behind the type of names African Americans bear.

I just can't make sense of some of the names and everyday it seems more obfuscating names emerge.

This is to remind you all that fter gunmen massacred more than 50 people in Angwan Rukuba on Palm Sunday, the President travelled to Plateau State to commiserate with the bereaved.

But rather than go to the communities where the killings happened amd grieve with the families or even visit the injured or see the devastation for himself, the bereaved were brought to the airport to meet him.

Then, in the middle of that condolence meeting, the President told them: “You have no light at the airport, and I have to fly back within the next 10 minutes.”

Like Tinubu, like Abelardo de la Espriella

Funkybabee:
Good evening my lovely people here, is there any available Master program in hospitality that I can apply from Nigeria. ..

I studied hotel and catering mgt(bsc)


Anyone that can guide a sister

I'm confused.

I thought ther3s a halt on American study visa for Nigerians.

OP, I can assure you that what we call 1GB in Nigeria, especially with MTN Is probably 400-500mb.

I'm almost certain

I wonder what Tinubu’s true state of origin actually is—Osun or Lagos. It’s crazy that there are this many question marks surrounding the background of a single person.

May God help the black race

OP, I'm just trying to understand what the second option in th poll really mean.

Like WTF

Africans and this inferiority complex thing, honestly.

How exactly did Africa “lose” him? Was he born in Africa? Raised in Africa? Do his parents even live in Africa?

This is how you guys created a whole “African team” for the World Cup with players like Mbappé, Saka, Olise and co. 😂

At some point, you just have to move on. These people identify with the countries they were born and raised in. Put nationality on the table and most of them would choose their actual countries without hesitation. The African connection is ancestry, and that's it.

Same thing with Anthony Joshua and Israel Adesanya. You keep claiming them as Nigerian when neither of them lives in Nigeria or would realistically choose Nigeria over the countries they represent.

Even the Iwobi that plays for you today is only doing that out of circumstance and convenience

Tufiakwa. 😭

Amroim is a very charismatic manager no doubt. What I doubt is his technical nous.

He is also very likable and I fervently prayed that he succeeded at United. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be.

I dont think Carrick has that aura or charismatic and a few bad results, he will crumble.

The type of politics we play in Nigeria makes my stomach turn. This is an Accord Party governor openly endorsing Tinubu of the APC. Doesn't matter if Accord has a candidate or not.

Of course its probably less about genuine political alignment and more about staying in the good books of the president so that the federal government does not frustrate him or his government. But that, in itself, is an indictment of the weakness of our democratic institutions.

When a governor knows that the federal government can deliberately frustrate his state simply because he refuses to align politically with the president, the rational response becomes to align. The result is a political system where independence is punished and loyalty is rewarded, regardless of party affiliation or principle.

Compare this with the United States, where a state governor can openly tell President Trump to “Bleep off” and still govern because there are strong, independent institutions capable of protecting the constitutional powers of the state. The president cannot simply weaponize the machinery of the federal government to punish a governor for political disagreement.

That is the real problem. Our institutional architecture creates powerful incentives for political dependence. Until those institutions become strong enough to protect elected officials from political retaliation, politicians will continue to prioritise alignment with whoever controls the centre over the interests of the people they were elected to serve.

BOOKWORMLUX:
I don't understand this testimony

Someone has that kind of anger issue, but it's the husband that's supposed to "work on himself"
Wow

I don't blame her, he must have ignored that part of her when they were dating or they didn't.

If you ever raise your voice at me, it'll change how I see you. Someone like that can't even pass talking stage, not to talk of marriage

Exactly my thought.

A woman has issues, but it's the man that should adapt

Nairalander248:
She was obviously under someone's care in Nigeria, went to Dubai to visit someone and she got hardjob visa in UK... You can't be the same...

The good part is that you are earning your own money now from UK

Looked pregnant to me in the UK

Liverpool and City.

The perpetual victims and the noisy neighbors

Imagine saying that someone of Tinubus character is your Estate Chairman, let alone president.

And tomorrow they accuse critics of demarketing Nigeria when the symbol of nigerias statehood is a known criminal