Too little too late.

20 trucks X 1,200 bags per truck = 24,000 (25kg) bags of rice per state.

Is the FG saying that each state has a maximum of 24,000 families What will the other families eat At most, this will feed a maximum of 4 million people for a few weeks. What of the other 196 million Nigerians

Better to introduce a comprehensive system of social security enshrined into law once and for all so that there is a legal minimum amount prescribed by law that a human must be paid by the Government every month if he or she is unemployed as is done by countries who value humans by having a safety net to catch all human beings who are unemployed or disabled or of pension age.

But then again, this type of safety net for all will reduce the pool of millions of Nigerians the greedy, selfish, heartless and wicked Nigerian Politicians currently pick their servants from.

Mide70:
One thing have realized over time without sentiment is that so many big men and woman are actually into dealings. Very few with legit deals . Hmmmm

One thing I realized many years ago was that making money the honest way is one of the hardest things in this world. Even common to find work ANYWHERE in the world, if you no doctor your CV with lies and embellishments, you will not get the best jobs you are over qualified for.

Like the Yoruba's will say, Olooto kin leni - The honest person will not have a mat.

truthhurts2:
Ladies and Gentlemen pls, depression is sure real oo.

Life is hard, hunger is in the land, debt plenty, pressure is at the maximum, no one is ready to help...

I'm sure that he fought so hard, he really did


One thing must surely kill a man

True talk.

If its any consolation, the Yoruba's have a saying that Ojo iku lojo isinmi meaning that the day one dies is the day one can finally rest from the troubles of this world. At least no human or human system can torture the young man anymore.

geoworldedu:
Explain to who?

Very good question.

A lot of people are in for a rude shock by the time they get to the other side wherever that is. For sure, we will all find out that God has been grossly misrepresented to us by fellow humans.

brain54:
Brave man...

If you know, you know. I doff my hat to any one who has the guts to commit suicide.

Some people will say he is a coward that took the easy option out but on the contrary, there is nothing cowardly about having the guts to say death before dishonor and go through with what you know is a finality.

Its not every one that can beg for food and some people will rationalize that death is better than dishonor. Last week it was that middle aged woman in Delta state who jumped backwards off a bridge onto the main road below and now this young man from Gombe.

If the greedy Nigerian politicians introduced social security payments to all unemployed people, these cases of suicide will reduce. But then again, this will reduce the pool of millions of Nigerians they currently pick their servants from.

ulysses:
Near &Die

Portable dey nack a whole Obas ex wife and he is still alive and he was complaining the other day that the woman refuses to get pregnant for him. Even though the Oba is dead, still Portable suppose don somersault the first time he tried to touch the Ex Olori if the stories we hear of the powers of these kings are true. A king as we were led to believe should be powerful both in life and in death ??

spiSeyi:
Most of them are those hookup babes who went for Kenyamata but end up as baba's wife

Very plausible when you consider that the so called babalawos do the jazz that supposedly attracts rich men to the women by the babalawo making incision (gbere) with a blade on the womens vagina and then rubs the juju into the wound (according to what Nollywood films tell us).

Its similar to a supposed prophet carrying out a spiritual bath on a naked female customer and you expect the so called prophet not to have an erection or touch places.

Reminds me of a story a friend told me.

The junior brother of a mutual friend suddenly decided that he has become a white garment prophet and he opened a consultation room in a rented space. On one such consultation by a woman who wanted her husband to love her more, this fake prophet gave the woman a small cowrie to swallow with some eba when she got home and bring her next poo to him the next day.

On taking her poo the next day, the prophet told her to take her poo back to her husband and ask him to rub it on his penis and then make love to her. The lady said she was afraid to ask her husband such and the false prophet told the woman that if she could not tell her husband that she should give him the poo and he will step in for the husband by rubbing it onto his own penis and nacking her for the jazz to work.

The woman refused according to the story but some stupid woman will have agreed and the false prophet will have had his way with them.

The criminally minded Nigerian Governors will bypass this by simply using their thugs to rig local Govt elections to install their hand picked candidates who will have sworn to a mandate to give them or their fronts 90% of the local Govt funds through dodgy contracts. If the installed LG chairman reneges on the shrine and blood enabled agreement all the Governor has to do is instigate the Councillors who he also installed to impeach the LG chairman just like Tinubu used Lagos State Assembly to almost impeach Fashola and he also used McOluomo and his gang of former armed robbers and killers to deny Ambode a second therm in the dodgy violence induced primaries when Ambode tried to stop the money remittance to Tinubu from the Lagos State treasury.

nautybride:


The poor are suffering and don't even have energy to go against the causal agents.

Its called weaponized poverty caused by corrupt politicians.

ednut1:
They will have to close down. Tinubu and his evil reforms at work

2 weeks ago I spoke to someone who relocated from UK to Naija to open a restaurant a year ago and he said he decided to close the restaurant the day before our call due to low patronage.

He said before they used to give free soup with meals but when the cost of the soup ingredients alone was more than the cost of the meat, he resorted to charging N1000 for the soup alone and as most of his customers can not afford the N2000 for a plate of food, he had no choice but to close the business down as to do otherwise will mean running at a loss and Baba is quite prudent at cost cutting from my observations of his past businesses both in London and in Naija.

Imagine 5 tomatoes jumped from N200 to N2000 and Tinubu has not deemed it fit to declare a state of emergency ??

The masquerade fight below makes more sense -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeqbrFxe9VY

Eni eegun nle ko maa roju, nitoripe bo sen re ara aiye naa lon re ara orun. Person wey masquerade dey chase neds to have a little more patience because as humans dey tire, na so terrestrial spirits also dey tire.

A Nigerian hero in my books.

Drastic times require Drastic measures.. Kudos to this Nigerian hero. He tried in his own way.

sultanofpigs:


It's brewing.... When e go burst... E go bad.

It's seriously brewing..

If more Nollywood actors and ashawo actresses followed Hanks example, Nigeria will not be in this mess. Instead, the actresses are busy jumping from one policicians bed to the other and the once respected male Yoruba actors including Jide Kosoko and the shameless Olaiya Igwe are busy licking McOluomo and Tinubu's backsides. I am Yoruba by the way but I can not stand the so called custodians of our culture descend so low as to become servants and errand boys to McOluomo and his gang of former armed robbers and killers. Awon alaiyebaje.

And by the way, I hate Tinubu with a passion for the number of children that have died because of his unquenchable thirst for looting the Lagos State and now the Nigerian Treasury. Jegudujera.

kettykin:
Shame no dey catch some people, tufiakwa.

As in. What audacity.

9. He joined the Young Socialists, the youth wing of the Labour Party, at age 16.

A lot of UK's Members of Parliarment joined politics at a young age or in early Uni and not a few of them including Prime Ministers graduated from Cambridge or Oxford unlike an unnamed president who has no siblings or records of his primary school, graduated from a secondary school before it was even founded and has a uni degree shrouded in so much controversy that the issuing Uni gave conflicting verdicts on his degree in court and I am almost certain that if the so called president graduated, his exams were sat for him by bright students hired from his drug money proceeds and his social security number was that of a woman whose identity he obviously stole.

What a country.

dauntless15:
Justify incompetence, you're good at it, infact that's all you do, I won't let this country drown me with it, I'll leave or die trying, and compared to what every average Nigerian is going through death is considered resting, if not because we're strong emotionally due to how familiar we are with misery and struggle, people for dey commit suicide daily and everyone would be messed up in the head, so much most people don't fear death anymore including me, I have been harassed by these so called law enforcement and efcc, I lost my mum due to poor healthcare etc, asin this country has dealt with me beyond counting.

I don't even know what to say as the above is deep and profound.

Fkj202004:
From 2015 to 2023 is 8 years, all the law students are supposed to have graduated but due to the unserious nature of some students, they didn't graduate for over 8 years for a programme of 5 years.

Its almost similar to someone studying ACCA knowing he had 10 years to complete the 14 papers and if not completed in 10 years he would lose all the papers he had passed even if he had passed 13 papers and start from ground zero all again.

I know a bros in London who had earlier been time barred in the ICAEW exams before he switched to ACCA and bros was struggling to pass all 14 ACCA papers and nearing the 10 year limit he went to Naija for some spiritual fortification to enable him pass the final papers before the 10year limit all to no avail.

Bros just left the course and went back to working as an Accountant and he landed a top job due to his prior accounting experience in an ICAEW practice. He possibly would have restarted the ACCA exams and I hope he has passed all by now or maybe he would have switched to the CIPFA exams since his new job then was in the public sector.

Lekan239:
same exactly they enter my ous.. that burglary is not advisable.. I had to use another very strong MM to cross it

Make we no just jam agbako in Portables voice.

There was a time in Lagos when armed robbers used to go on their robbery missions with welding machines to cut open stubborn burglar proof iron bars.

Yankee101:
The most painful part is if someone you’ve been helping stabs you in the back
E dey pain pass

Exactly.

Its bad enough that the thief violated the residents private spaces but its worse hearing that he broke into the house of the man that used to give him money in the area. Se make person dey ignore the poor ni.

He must have been studying his benefactors movements and decided to pounce when he was sure the man had gone home to his home town for Sallah break according to the mans narrative.

Zonefree:

The beating will continue in their station. Even the female officers for desk go use mouth and slap finish the young man.

If you MUST drag with Nigerian police officers, never follow them to their office. It's better you go with them without dragging than to drag and still go with them. It's always brutal. They must find ways to inflict heavy scars on your body.

Nigeria is a lawless country, try and secure your life in any possible way.

Even UK police don kill many people both black, white, male and female for resisting arrest. Their own method is to suffocate you by kneeling on your chest or breaking your neck. Not too common but it has happened in the past including to a Nigerian man, an Irish man and a Jamaican woman they were trying to deport and they turned round and said as she was biting them they had to restrain her but in the process, they suffocated her to death.

Its better to go with the police peacefully i.e Fesowole according to Portable) than to allow them injure, maim or kill you for resisting arrest albeit wrongful arrest.

I relocated to Naija some years ago and anytime i was coming from clubbing, I had to pass through Allen Junction in Ikeja and before I reached the police checkpoint, withouth being asked, I will slow down, put on my inner light, wind down my windows and smile at the officers and this seemed to disarm them and on one ocassion, one Northen police man told me that I have a Sunny smile and just waved me to go and this was circa 3am.

UK police don come beg me for house before because they arrested me on a traffic stop for not telling them my name quick enough as I wanted them to explain their accusation that I was driving rough first. Then they said if I was not prepared to tell them my name that I was nicked (arrested) and as they put their hands on my head to start the arrest I willingly followed them into their car (as I was not going to allow them to break my neck during a struggle).

That area Waltham Forest back then was notorious for racist Police just like Croydon was back then.

I then told them that my newly imported Naija wife had no way of getting home at 4am and they told me to give her cab money and I told them didn't have any money on me but when I saw that they were insistent on arresting me, I gave the now Ex wife £20 for cab and one of the police men then called me a stingy bastard (this was the weapon I would later use against them).

Eventually a good Samaritan - a Jamaican man who saw my now Ex wife at 4am crying on the road (the same woman don tear eye now and has turned our her 2 kids against me ) picked her in his car and drove round the police stations in the area until they located the station I was held at.

I was released without charge as they were just out to arrest a black man for no valid reason (in my case I had the audacity to not tell them my name until they explained to me what they meant by saying I was driving rough when I knew I had to slow down to navigate one of these double roundabouts that were so close together)

After I was released, I phoned their police station and asked to speak to the most senior officer and told him that I had evidence of what his officers said to me on the night of the arrest and he asked me what type of evidence I had and asked if it was recorded evidence and I told him that I was not willing to divulge the type of evidence I had. His officers had called me a stingy bastard when I told them I did not have any cash on me to give my then wife for a cab home but I did not record their abuse but I did not tell their boss this.

The police boss (evidenced by the kind of flat hat he wore to my 7th floor council flat) came himself and apologized to me in my flat stating that he had disciplined the officers involved.

I remember another time I went into a police station in London at around 5am to report a case of racism and on hearing the word racism, the desk attendant in the police station, a white woman rolled her eyes ans if to say not again and when I told her that if she was not up to a certain age, then I came to the UK before her, she then went away for a while as if to call a superior officer (she was not even a police officer).

After waiting for a while and no one came back to attend to me, I turned around towards the door to leave the police station and alas the sliding doors that opened automatically a few minutes earlier refused to open and the doors had apparently been locked by the police behind the scenes to prevent me leaving the police station.

I automatically sussed their plan out as they must have been watching me behind the scenes and if I showed any signs of being drunk then they would have sent out giant police men to try and subdue me and if they had broken my neck in the process, they would have blamed it on me being drunk. I immediately remembered how the London police killed Jamaican Joy Gardner and Nigerians Shiji Lapite and Olaseni Lewis during the process of arresting them and as the doors were still locked obviously to prevent me leaving the police station, I just turned towards the CCTV, raised my hands and waved them at the camera and said the following words - I am not drunk, come and open the doors and let me leave and I repeated this whilst waving and speaking at the CCTV and eventually 4 police officers came down including 2 giant police officers and they then opened the doors and let me leave but the 2 giant police officers were scrutinizing my face obviously to see if I was drunk.

The picture below is of Joy Gardner a then 40-year-old Jamaican mature student living in London who was killed by London police during an attempt to arrest her and deport her to Jamaica.

The first url below details the case of a then 34year old Nigerian named Shiji Lapite who was killed during a police arrest in London, the second one for Joy Gardner and the 3rd one for Olaseni Lewis all killed in UKpolice custody during unnecessarily violent arrests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Oluwashijibomi_Lapite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Joy_Gardner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Olaseni_Lewis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_deaths_in_custody

Na so for 2017 one Davido friend named Tagbo Umeike in a bid to win N200k and a brand new iPhone 8 promised by Davido drank himself to death during a drinking game.
https://www.nairaland.com/4099717/tagbo-umeike-died-after-drinking

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Edafe Bright, said, “A customer who was going to the bank to deposit money was double-crossed before he could enter the bank and robbed. It’s not a bank robbery. Nigerians need to avoid sensation. Nobody died, but someone sustained an injury.

Who is this useless police officer saying that Nigerians need to avoid sensation when Nigeria is a certified crime scene.

How I wish the armed robbers turned their sight and their guns on Nigerian politicians, their wives and families.

ThemanOfGods:
Something the whole country should be on right now

As the great Fela Kuti sang in Original Suffer Head :-

I want to tell you my brother
One bitter truth
Before we all are to Jefa-head O - (i.e before we can all enjoy in this country)
We must be ready to fight for am now

God help anyone who allows these so called celebrities to divert their attention away from working on their personal life goals.

Sonnobax15:

Nigeria my country,we settle down hail thee..

Reminds me of the best graduating student back then in my department,he was someone whom we never knew . The dude never attended class and never partook in any activity . But las las,he was named the best graduating student...

What money can not do in this country does not exist.

In 2020, 631 students of Nigerian Law School, Abuja failed the 2020 Bar final examinations.
https://saharareporters.com/2020/07/05/631-law-students-fail-call-bar-final-exams

Its even scarier that in something as serious as Medical School Exams, Professors of Medicine allow their children and their friends to cheat.

I was a Medical Student at UI Med School many years ago and 20% of my class cheated to pass exams in a situation where people who are repeating decide to do division of labour and instead of studying every thing they decide to study just upper limb and someone else studies lower limb, thorax etc, etc and then they sit at the back of the class and compare notes and end up scoring 100%.

This is apart from the children of Professors of Medicine who were being given preferential treatment in the exam hall (e.g. coming too late for an exam and instead of disqualifying her, the invigilator (a lecturer who was taught in med school by the girls father who is a Prof of medicine) kept repeating to our hearing "where is the she that must be obeyed" until the Profs daughter showed up more than an hour late for the exam.

And then there is the case of the son of a Prof of medicine in my class who used to see the real exam questions before the exam date and then circulate them to his inner circle and they all end up scoring 100% in the exam.

No wonder there are so many heartless killer doctors in Nigeria.

I eventually had enough and when I decided to pull out of Med school after 4 years, my mum took me to a well known Bishop who laid hands on me and when he saw that I did not change my mind, he promptly asked me if I was on drugs and I answered in the negative.

tensazangetsu20:
I knew tinubu was gonna be Nigerias next president since 2020 especially after endsars and that's when I started planning my exit. The real tragedy is yet to begin.

A lot of Nigerians don't realise the above reality or they are in denial or they know Tinubu is a dangerous Treasury looter (with 25 years exprience of looting Lagos state) but because they are benefiting from Tinubu's MEGA corruption, they keep hailing Tinubu forgetting that when the shit finally hits the fan NOBODY including their children and family members will escape the day of reckoning.

tensazangetsu20:


Lol if you have the opportunity to leave Nigeria better leave. You won't be able to handle what tinubu has in store for Nigeria no matter how strong you are except you are part of the elite thieving political class

On the Tinubu issue, its like those who voted Tinubu for whatever reasons they had did not study how Tinubu has been running Lagos State from 1999 till date directly and indirectly and how Tinubu elevated MC Oluomo and his gang of former Armed robbers and elevated them above any sitting Governor in Lagos and how the Treasury of Lagos State was and still is in Tinubu's pocket.

I said here before the Supreme court judges sold Nigerians to Tinubu that IF Tinubu was allowed to be near Nigeria's Treasury for just 2 months that the greedy Looter will become richer than Nigeria.

The worst has happened to Nigeria and now that the Greedy thief called Tinubu has been President for 13 months, Tinubu is now richer than Nigeria as his modus operandus is to steal any Treasury blind and use his stolen funds to corrupt future elections into perpetuity.

Nigeria ti wo gau. Nigeria is in deep shit with Tinubu in Aso Rock.

We never know the kain wahala we don jam with Tinubu in power.

Arrested development does not even begin to describe the deep shit we are collectively in.

And its not just those in Nigeria that are in trouble 'cos those abroad no longer have a sustainable Nigeria to retire to.

Severe weather extremes due to climate change

Or is it that mother nature has had enough of our shenanigans

dauntless15:
I used to judge people who commit suicide and call them cowards, but not anymore, people are going through a lot, and most people don't have the emotional strength to make it through hopelessness, you no go know until you walk in her shoes, for her to go out like that it's obvious she must have experienced and emotional storm too strong she lost the willingness to keep surviving.

I have never judged anyone who took their own lives because it actually takes GREAT COURAGE to take your own life.

Na person wey never see better fight dey boast say him be man.

Some people just reach a stage where they say - death before dishonor.

Some people will rather kill themselves than beg for food.