NewStats: 3,264,041 , 8,182,385 topics. Date: Monday, 09 June 2025 at 11:56 AM 3h46z

Tranquill:
When Amaechi was addressed as “Our Igbo son” in Abia State by the then Ohaneze president Joe Irukwu, during the reception in honour of Arunma Oteh, he promptly took the mic and said “I am a proud Ikwerre son and not Igbo. This was over 15 years ago. At a radio Station in Lagos when he was governor, he was asked if he was Igbo and he said No.

Igbo people continued to call him an Igbo man so when he was campaigning for Buhari against Jonathan he used that advantage to tell the crowd that he was more Igbo than Jonathan and Igbo people started cheering him. Is there any where in the world where someone would overnight say he belongs to an ethnicity that he never identified with and then you take that as indelible fact?

Only Igbo people would see someone whose mother, father, none of the siblings is Igbo but assume that person can become Igbo overnight. If this is not stupidity of the highest order then I don’t know what it is.

occfx:


I don't know if it is devil that talks to me or God on what Nigeria politicians deserve but what I hear in my ear does not sound well.

Ebony state sold garri to me at 25 cups for 100 naira when other states were selling 8 and 10 cups. They make a lot of garri cheaply with natural rice from Akaeze.

These idiots decided to build an airport none of the indigenous people could use or ever use with there common wealth living them to languish is hunger and penury.

20b could set up a garri processing plant in all the local government in Ebony. Set up rice milling plant too and bring enough tractors for steady and faster farming but these idiots at the top just want to embezle and embezle.

Someone should properly document all these atrocities so that the next generations will know what demons look like.

aribisala0:
You can delete the one where you quoted me first
Let me know when you do that

Done....sighs.

[quote author=aribisala0 post=135633970][/quote]

Why are you quoting me and making a comment I did not make?
When I don't have any issue with you or any one?
I've a friend who is a Political Scientist and I quote posts like this for easy references when we are discussing political matters.
Oga sir, please undo that thing you did for posterity sake.
I'm a Cross Riverian, nothing concerns me with who is same as who arguments here online.

Done........

DeltaBachelor:
Nor be only sub-Igbo, na sub-zero. See, so long as it is not from Abia, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra , it is not Igbo. In fact, so long as it is not from South-East, we don’t want to be identified as Igbo. Please allow us breathe

I don’t even understand the problem of you guys anymore. Has the itshekiri man or Edo man called himself Yoruba before despite bearing Yoruba names ? Has the Kogi/Benue man called himself Hausa before ? Why do you guys want to make every minority tribe from the South-South to be identified as your people ?

Don’t we have our culture, values and traditions again ? You started with creation of more states and even changed our beloved state and tribe into something else. That didn’t work and now you guys have gone back again to the same issue that started all these.


Please the 5 of you should just clamour for your independence. We wish you well, but we don’t wanna be a part of it. It is getting out of hand. For the poster below, Ok because his name is Amaechi, he is now Igbo. What of the Rotimi there ? Is he also Yoruba because of that abi na half-caste him be ? Oga face your own battle. We don’t want to be a part of it


Thank you !

Karlifate:
Government.

Govern - to control
Ment - the mental body, mind.

Governments do not govern your body, they govern your mind, because it’s the root cause of reality.


Belief systems are building blocks to reality.

chrisxxx:

Bros in all sincerity I am not biased in this. Wike was instrumental to Amaechi becoming a governor.
I will tell you what played out.
Odili wanted to make Amaechi governor but his wife preferred another person other than Amaechi. I think this was as a result of seething rivalry between Odilis wife and Amaechi's wife. Amaechi's wife is said to be a former house help of Odilis wife. The usual jealousy between women made Odilis wife to prefer another person.
There was another angle of Obasanjo preferring Senator Martins Yellow. All these led to a cook up charge against Amaechi and thereby setting the EFCC against him. Odili had vowed to handover to an Ikwerre man and outside that wouldn't want to hand over to a Kalabari man. The murder of Marshall Harry was still unresolved. While all these were ongoing Amaechi had secured PDP gubernatorial ticket. However on the day of flag presentation Obasanjo came up with the historic K-Leg saga. The flag wasn't handed over to Amaechi for reasons beknown only to Obasanjo. Odili was distressed and wanted away out of this. The opportunity came when Obasanjo travelled and Ahmadu Ali the then PDP chairman got backdated form for Omehia. EFCC was still on the trail of Amaechi and he had to escape to Ghana. Omehia contested and won the governorship election.
At this point Wike and Magnus Abe came together to get supreme court interpretation of who was PDP candidate in the said election.
Omehia and his foot soldiers did everything to bribe Wike. They wanted Wike to drop the case for financial gains. Wike refused and followed the case to the end where the supreme court declared Amaechi to be the authentic PDP candidate.
If Amaechi denies this he shouldn't be trusted for anything. Amarachi Wasn't loved by River people at this time. In short anything associated with PDP was generally scorned at. The people believed PDP rugged all their elections. To be very frank many people in Rivers State will tell you that Amaechi has never won any free and fair election in Rivers State.
To be in the house assembly he ed through the court declaration against the authentic winner of the ticket. Ask anyone from Ikwerre LGA. His second term ticket was when the Carry Go syndrome started in Rivers State. His first term as a governor Omehia contested on his behalf. His second term results were written by Wike and his goons. Omehia was the preferred candidate in 2011. The mass rigging perpetrated them returned Amaechi as the governor.

Bright2:
It's like Amaechi has eaten because since last week he was hungry.
Anyway Amaechi himself said it that Nyesom Wike made him governor before Ogbakor Ikwerre and the naration in Port Harcourt then proved it was true .

Those in Port Harcourt then can attest that Wike did the working for Amaechi through the supreme court , even Celestine also know this .

Amaechi has already ran to Ghana while Wike was in Nigeria fighting for him in supreme court , it was after the supreme Court ruling that Amaechi returned to Nigeria. Is supreme Court of Nigeria situated in Ghana ? Oga we know the Truth , go and sleep because you have more battles ahead of you without Wike's .

Tallesty1:
Her frustration is valid, but she is also very, very foolish. Yes, men reduce women to their physical appearance at first glance, which is understandable since you have to tell them or show them what they’re not seeing—and it ends there. But what she, just like every other woman, often leaves unexamined is that the culture women criticize is also one they help construct.

If you invite 20 celebrities to an event, 10 men and 10 women. The men will come nicely or weirdly dressed. The women will wear expensive clothes that covered everywhere except the places clothes where originally meant to cover, the two decently dressed women will cheer them on and snap them for us at home to see.

We now live in an era where empowerment is often expressed through hypersexualized imagery. While everyone has the right to bodily autonomy, we can’t ignore the contradictions: the same platforms where women demand to be seen as more than their bodies are often the very ones where many self-objectify for attention, monetization, or validation.

Religion teaches that modesty isn’t oppression; it’s intentional dignity. Philosophy reminds us that freedom without restraint collapses into chaos. Academically, we know objectification is a two-way transaction: it requires both the objectifier and the one willingly objectified.

So yes, women are more than their bodies. But ability requires examining how they present themselves to the world as much as how the world perceives them. You can’t wear a costume and be angry that you’re cast in a role. If you want a culture that sees the whole woman, you must help build one that honors her whole image—mind, body, and spirit.

emkz:
Please what do we expect Amaechi to say?

With Tinubu teaming up with Wike, Amaechi's staunch enemy, Amaechi became disgruntled. Tinubu studied those with political relevance and realized Wike had consistently delivered for PDP since 2007. Many may not know that Wike fought for Amaechi to get the seat in 2007 while Amaechi was in Ghana.

It is understandable that Wike has overshadowed Amaechi in this dispensation.

With Tinubu winning in 2023, the Abuja boys were changed. Those who lost out are gathering to complain. They cannot effectively plot for 2027. That is why you hear strange phrases like "urban bandits", "APC is darkness", "weaponization of poverty", "we don't care about you". Amaechi even confessed he'd carry out some of President Tinubu's reforms. That is how confused he is.

The lion of Ubima has been reduced to the squealing squirrel of the coalition coven of 2023 displaced political refugees.

NwaAmaikpe:




Our forefathers are all crying non-stop in their graves because of what today's man has become just because of you.

How can a supposed dimkpa be this jittery just because his wife may find out that he has played okoso outside?
The rule book says that you should not cheat if you do not have the balls to cheat.

You shagged a lady with a condom, yet you still had to bother google because you fingered her as well. What will people like us who can't pour except we go raw then do, use ChatGPT?

Do not get me wrong, I will never try to endorse cheating because that will be overfloogging a dead horse. It is an accepted fact that 98% of all men with the means and the opportunity cheat.

So my anger with you here is not that you are remorseful about cheating, or paranoid about possibly being infected, but because you are terrified of your wife.

If you are this scared of your wife, she will be very justified if she leaves you; because remaining with a sissy is tantamount to same-sex marriage and women know this; that's why they'd always love bad boys unconditionally.

Your wife should be grateful to you for being considerate enough to treat your exposure first before whambamming her.

As a happily married, certified expert in cheating whose specialty is raw sex, I can authoritatively confirm to you that you have nothing to worry about.

To answer your final question, the only thing that can salvage this situation is professionally well-played mindgames.
Bring down hell and brimstone, question her trust for you and the future of your union since she now resorts to going through your pocket.

If you can not gaslight or turn the table on a woman, then you are not mature enough to be in a marriage.

Dpsychologist:
I saw this tweet by Erigga and it hit deep.

“I was with him when he was drinking garri.”
But na you buy the garri? 🤨

Let’s unpack this mindset that’s becoming very common in our generation.


🧠 The “Loyalty” Women Talk About Today is Not Real

Many women love to say they were there when you had nothing.
But truth is, a lot of them were just witnesses, not builders.

They didn’t help.
They didn’t invest.
They didn’t even believe in you—they were just hoping for a return on their emotional “time.”

It’s all about positioning themselves for the future harvest without ever planting seeds.


📌 Presence ≠ Participation

There’s a clear difference between being present and being useful.

Ask yourself:

Did she contribute to your hustle?

Did she with money, ideas, motivation?

Or did she just sit there… waiting?


Too many women want to claim royalty status for just hanging around during your broke phase.


💭 Real Loyalty is Silent

The girl who actually bought the garri isn’t the one tweeting.
She’s the one you when you finally blow—because she didn’t make noise, she made impact.

Loyalty is:

Showing up consistently.

Investing (not just emotionally, but tangibly).

Praying, planning, building with you.


But most of what you see now is emotional blackmail masked as .


⚠️ Men, Stop Rewarding ive Loyalty

Your success is not community property.
If she didn’t grind with you, she shouldn’t reap with you.

Let’s break it down clearly:

If What She Did is to make you feel Encouraged, ed, sacrificed then sje deserves Respect & loyalty
If What She Did is Invested in your dream then What She Deserves is Return on value
But if she Complained, watched, tolerated you then she deserves Nothing but silence 😐


💬 Final Thoughts

Let this sink in:

🧾 Presence without contribution is just observation.
And observers don’t get trophies.

So next time a woman says, “I was with you when you were drinking garri”, calmly ask:

“Did you buy am for me?”

Because sitting on the sideline doesn't make you a teammate.

What do y’all think?
Have you experienced this?
Drop your thoughts and share with someone who needs this reminder. 🧠🔥

dominique:


See the demon in human skin below. Not once did she show any form of remorse during the trial. If the little girl was not her spitting image,.I would have said she was not her biological daughter. The death penalty needs to be brought back because of people like this

Drug addicts. Dangerous people to have around you.
They can do anything for the money to buy drugs and fund their addictions.

BlackViper:
And for doing this they got 10 years?!?😡🤬
Sometimes, not every time, but sometimes:
Jungle Justice is better than court justice

You posted something you couldn't even bother to read and you want others to?

Peakdesign23:
Irrational decisions. I hope they compensate them.

Irrational?
So... what are the rational decisions you would take?

DomPerignon:


They made their reasons abundantly clear from the beginning on why they wanted out of Nigeria and it was down to the overbearing arrogance and domineering ibo majority that had cornered everything to themselves both resources wise and job opportunities

Enugu was made the capital of Eastern Nigeria in 1959 but prior to that all resources were being channeled to develop Enugu at the expense of all so-called minority provinces.

A lowly clerk position in the local government in western Caneroun and other provinces like Calabar , PH were reserved for ibos. Land grabbing with the full of IBO officials and even Ibo magistrates will side with their fellow ibo to legalise ibo land grab was a norm. Even ibo settlers in western cameroun were notoriously hostile in the face of their hosts as was and still is the case where ever you find ibos in Nigeria with the exception of the north which taught them a bitter lesson how to be civil.

Note that it wasn't only western Cameroun that had grown tired of being yoked to you ibos in the British lumped Eastern Nigeria.

The so-called minorities wanted out before independence and were pushing to have their own special region but Zik was able to ensure the British kept them stuck to you out of pure parasitism.

Going back a bit, and you will recall that on the eve of balkanizig Southern Nigeria into Western and Eastern Nigeria, present day peoples of Benue and Taraba were once part of Southern Nigeria but once they learnt that they will be in the sane region with you ibos they demanded that they will rather northern Nigeria.

Moving forward to post independence Nigeria , the so-called minorities began a renewed aggitarion to leave the old Eastern Nigeria citing marginalization , oppression and suppression by the IBO majority .The minority people of eastern Nigeria were inspired by the peaceful seccesion of Midwest out of the old Western region that did not see any opposition from the majority Yoruba . In Enugu , the situation was the opposite with the IBO super majority doing every dirty trick to stop any motion by representatives of the minorities to call for a referendum. Frustrated at Enugu, the minorities took their plight to the Federal Parliament and had secured the of Northern ,Western and Midwestern Parliamentarians to grant a referendum for tthe minority people of Eastern Nigeria for the creation of the Calabar -Ogojaa-Ribers region. This was in late 1965 and the matter was to be presented oficially in Parliament after the Christmas break.

The IBO coup of Jan 15, 1966 was to prevent the Federal House from returning back from Christmas break to address the issue of COR region which was the first thing on the docket.



Your greed and foolishness is why everyone hated to be lumped with you and as soon as the British left , everyone wanted nothing to do with you.

Why did Ojukwu declare Biafra ?


It had nothing to do with ibos being slaughtered up north but because Gowon finally freed the minorities from your parasitic grasp through state creation.

Ojukwu went to war to preserve the British drawn colonial borders to continue the parasitic internal colonialism .

Sirianese:


The man overreacted, but in reality we're Africans so why the hell would you slap your big brother's wife??! Unless maybe you'd been pounding her p#ssy on the sly...

Read you nitwit.

olaniyilukman:
I am not disputing you bro but at the same time, revoking people's property is not the best way to address this kind of issues...

So..what is the best way?
We've been on this matter since early 2024.
What do you suggest sir?

Validated:
Nigeria is in AUTOPILOT. No president, no leadership, NOTHING. Just a bunch of thieves seeking to grab power and keep it till 2031. We, the Nigerian people need to STOP them and that we will do.

The Jews STOPPED Pharaoh
The Chileans STOPPED Pinochet
The Italians STOPPED Benito Mussolini
The World STOPPED Hitler and his NAZI party
The South Africans STOPPED white apartheid
The Arabs STOPPED all the despots in Power
The Zimbabweans STOPPED Mugabi.
The Liberians STOPPED Charles Taylor
The Ivorians STOPPED Gbagbo
Back home, Nigerians STOPPED Abacha.

They all did the same one thing ... THEY BUNCHED TOGETHER for the same purpose of defeating their OPPRESSORS

WE MUST STOP THESE ROGUES!

TallNigerian:
Good. Now, that they have been scrutinized and given security clearance. Let us begin to ask other important questions.

1. Why did the so-called contractor have to ship in 89 workers from Katsina?
2. What happened to recruiting within the employable population in Lagos?
3. What is the motive and/or economic sense in transporting workers from Katsina burdening the company further with providing accommodation for them?
4. Will these workers pay PIT to Lagos State Government? Or will they enjoy tax free wages?
5. After the contract, will the contractor ensure their return to Katsina or leave them to add further pressure to the scare resources and over-stretched public amenities in the Metropolitan City?

Meanwhile, there's absolutely nothing wrong with shipping workers from Katsina. But 89 at once? LASG need to ask questions.

Insightful and fun reading.
Kundus to the OP.

Sharpsharp00123:
Fabian okoro should b sacked so the alainironu Omo oloripelebe can rest

Stop projecting foolishness. Mrs Usman replaced Fabian few years ago.

Neweramify:
That story is both heartbreaking and powerful. It highlights the deep sacrifices some families make for education, especially in places where poverty is widespread and school fees are a burden. The grandmother bringing live chickens shows the value she places on her granddaughter’s future it’s an act of love, desperation, and determination.

At the same time, it raises serious questions about access to education. No child should be sent home because their family can’t afford to pay. It’s a reminder that education, though often said to be a right, still isn’t truly accessible to all.


Good morning Nairaland family,

I’m an HND graduate in ing, currently seeking job opportunities where I can contribute meaningfully and grow professionally whether within the ing field or other areas where my skills are transferable. I would sincerely appreciate any leads, recommendations, or guidance.
My location is Akwa Ibom State.

Thank you in advance!

So... she didn't place same value on her grandson? The post said "grandchildren" and even in the picture (let me assume you do not have the data to watch the video completely) a boy and girl (her grandkids) were seated with her and the live chickens on the floor.

Dogalmighty17:
Gen Z in the house, gather around the table let me regale you with tales of the most prolific Nigerian fraudster, Fred Ajudua.

See kids, before yahoo, there was yahoo. Fred was and still remains a legend in this regard. The kind of heist he and his men pulled is so phenomenal. Fred put the ya in yahoo. Imagine that they locked him up in prison and right there in prison, he scammed one of the most brutal army generals Nigeria has ever had. General Bamaiyi. A prisoner scamming another prisoner. Fred scammed Bamaiyi of 8.4 million dollars right there in prison!

Fred is extremely smart and suave. He has the gift of garb. That's why Emmanuel Nwude, another big time fraudster and a former executive director of Union Bank, sought his services. Together, the sold a non existent airport to a Brazilian bank for 242 million dollars over 22 years ago. This was done using just a fax machine. No internet, no mobile phones outside thuraya satellite phone, were in existence then.

Oh! A movie has to be made of this. Fred and Nwude were very elaborate. They invited the Brazilians to London, lodged them in the best hotels, hired limousines to chauffeur them around town, took them to the best clubs and spent money like nothing. That wasn't all.

They invited the Brazilians to Nigeria. Right from the Lagos airport, Fred and Nwude paid just about every person that the Brazilians would come in with at the airport. They even hired people to be around the airport to greet Fred and Nwude as extremely wealthy guys. It didn't end there.

NNPC headquarters in Lagos then, was another staging area they used. Nwude, had the Brazilians follow him to the very top floor of the building. He took them to the NNPC boardroom. Paid NNPC staff and hired actors all around the building were greeting Nwude like a boss. The air of confidence Nwude walked into the towers with and the way the paid staff and hired actors showed respect to Nwude, further lulled the Brazilians.

It was right in that NNPC that the Brazilians, thinking they were g a deal of a lifetime, agreed to transfer 242 million dollars to an escrow Nwude provided.

Mind you as at then, no Nigerian bank had a capitalisation of 100 million dollars. So that was enough money to bounce the bank.

The Brazilians, excited, went back to their country. When the call to inspect the non existent airport they bought was not forthcoming, that's when they got apprehensive and got the authorities involved.

This singular scam that Fred and Nwude pulled, is the reason why we have EFCC today. Even Obasanjo as president then, could not comprehend this kind of criminality.

Fred never stopped scamming. He enjoys it and does so for fun. He later went on to become a member of the house of reps before his criminal nature caught up with him and he got sent to prison in Nigeria. His son, used to be Davido's lawyer until Davido dropped him.

What about the Brazilian bank he scammed? Well, the bank collapsed and some of its executives commited suicide. Not a kobo of that money was recovered.

grandsuccess:
What actually amaze me in all these middle-belt killings is the fact that 26% of our armed forces (comprising of police, army(navy, airfoece), civil defence, immigration, prison, customs and fire service) are Benue state indegenes, 20% are from Kaduna state - especially Kaduna South, another 20% are from plateau and taraba states. there is hardly any family in the middle-belt that doesn't have one or more uniformed personnel in their family!

THAT MEANS 66% OF OUR ARMED FORCES ARE FROM THE MIDDLE-BELT!

AND YET WITH ALL THE ARMS AVAILABLE TO THEM BY VIRTUE OF THEIR PROFESSION, THEY STILL ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE CANNON FODDERS AND SITTING DUCK FOR FULANI TERRORIST HEADSMEN!

Something is wrong somewhere.

Their retired Generals are relaxing in their Abuja mansions.

PovertySlayer:
I watched the video to the end. Nairaland mods this caption is wrong and misinforming. No where in the video did Natasha accuse Reno of sexual assault. From the video, she said Reno flirted with her. Flirting is not sexual assault.

What did Natasha accuse Akpabio of again??

emkz:
The verbal violence was started by someone due to simple seat change.

Then the someone went on Arise News to peddle allegations of sexual harassment.

Then the someone went to the senate to submit her allegation which was wrongfully submitted.

After correction, she was recommended to be suspended for verbal violence.

The suspension was fair as it was meant to help her reflect on her behaviour and understand the rules of the senate to be an effective lawmaker.

Instead of simply apologizing to the senate and her colleagues by saying: "I was way over my head; I sincerely apologize to my colleagues for raising my voice", she went on an international media circus. She appeared at the Interparliamentary Union of United Nations without authorization and lied that she was suspended for being a woman and refusing sexual advances of senate president. They told her they'd hear from the other side. The matter died at that level. She then went to DW News, Sky News and BBC to peddle her claims. Whenever she was reminded that she was suspended for verbally assaulting the senate leadership, she'd sidestep it and even want to attack.

Her propagandists on Nairaland are saying she is looking for justice. Since when does the media deliver justice?

She wanted publicity to disgrace Akpabio. She didn't file any evidence in court or with the senate ethics committee. She just wanted drama like a Dramatasha.

Now the public has turned on her to supply evidence because they are not gullible and hungry.

Dramatasha has been silent for almost two weeks now.

Dramatasha, please do another media round and accuse Akpabio.

Please.

Ruke1991:
Those deeper life leaders problem cannot be solved by this teaching. It's somehow a mixture of hatred, unforgiveness, jealously and protectionism that makes them discipline, frustrate, blackmail and chase away their young ones who practice speaking in tongues, who are gifted in the prophetic or are are aggressively involved in leading others to engage in prayer. Those deeper life pastors have what bible calls cloak of maliciousness. What does it mean?

They envy you but will not acknowledge it is envy. They are secretly afraid that if you set up a church, they could lose followers. But they never try to understand your mission first.

Rather they look at legalistic rules within the church. They look at the church traditions to find what they can use to punish you and kill you. The best weapon is so called disciplinary actions. You could be suspended for up to one or two years in a row and while you are under suspension rumours about you being occultic, rebellious will be going round. The in their simplistic and sanctimonious ways will start avoiding you for fear of the high handedness of their pastor not descending on them.

Deeperlife today is almost like a cult with fearful followers of high handed pastors who are not obedient to scriptures despite that they preach it. Those pastors are more about maintaining their control over the people than anything else. Or else, how do you explain their actions? Where in every location of deeper life, those who speak in tongues while leading prayer during holy ghost impartation services are considered occultic or rebels and have to serve disciplinary actions. Deeperlife is like that everywhere but the more religious try to deny the coercion and erroneous application of disciplinary action in settling personal scores by deeper life leaders. Pastor Kumuyi, you have tried. But at this stage nothing you can do to change those pastors, not even your teachings except you discipline them anyhow the way they discipline people. That's the language they understand

TRUMPwedsBUHARI:


From the article which you clearly didn't read

From the picture you posted, it shows the interest will continue till year 2029. How's that Tinubu's fault?

Or you think the FG can't pay that interest if there was the option to do any time they want?

Onegai:
You have no money. You're not married to this woman so you don't legally own those kids (poor choice of words). Forget about custody for now please.

Calm down. No, seriously, calm down.

Put the children first. Neither you nor the woman are putting your kids first.

Focus on bringing your Baby Mama and her Mother to the Ministry of women's affairs.

When you get there, politely ask them to help you guys sit down and draft a Child Arrangement Agreement. It will cover: shared custody, schoolers, Medicals, Upkeep. Ask if later when you are financially stable, you can offer a house for your Baby Mama's and kids only (to keep them away from the Ogogoro selling lifestyle).

You should get a Lawyer to do this running around for you, they will most likely take the case to Magistrate's court.

Please calm down and put your ego aside and think of your children.

All he's asking for is for the children to be allowed to go to school instead of staying at home to be helping their grandma to sell ogogoro.