Nigeria needs better budget management. You're spending public funds lavishly on presidential air fleets, housing for judges and APC campaigns, but sure taxes are the problem.
Trending Video: FCT Minister Nyesom Wike refused to drink water from the newly completed ultra-modern Karu Water Supply Network in Abuja, which is meant to provide potable water to surrounding communities.
“One day, we will have two big buildings in Abuja where we will put pictures of people—whether dead or alive—who have messed up this country so that their grandchildren will know their forefathers were part of Nigeria’s problems,”
~ Goodluck Jonathan says
I, Daniel O., am one of 347 well meaning Nigerians who have signed this petition asking President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to resign — for 500 documented reasons.
Tinubu is a plague to this country, surrounded by yes people. Kindly resign.
#TinubuResignNow https://t.co/xWwkt89asC
Mr Bayo, a sitting governor just dropped the monthly salary of an entire workforce from 15k to 10k.
Kindly drop a plan for how a full grown human, possibly with a family, is supposed to survive on 15k a month. Una no rate us in this country. It takes a lot to say this on TV.
Just imagine the level of impunity. It takes a person that truly believes they're untouchable to give such directives.
At this rate we'd all be enslaved before the next elections sef.
Lakurawa t+rrorists Enforce N1,500 Bride Price and Order that Girls Above 15 must be married off immediately in Niger State
Armed members of the Lakurawa group reportedly issued directives to residents of Zugurma community in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State during a Sunday visit, ordering that girls aged 15 and above must be married off while also fixing bride price (sadaki) at N1,500.
According to community sources, the armed men arrived openly in broad daylight and spent several hours in the area addressing residents and preaching their ideology. Reporters earlier noted that Lakurawa fighters have been moving freely across Borgu communities, threatening those who resist their teachings.
Residents said the group used the gathering to announce what it described as rules for the community. One source claimed, “They stayed for hours preaching. They said any girl above 15 must be married off and bride price should be N1,500.”
Zugurma residents described the move as part of an attempt to impose control over local communities. The area is said to be strategically located along the main road linking Borgu to Mokwa, a key route connecting the region to other parts of the country.
Witnesses also recalled that weeks earlier, suspected Lakurawa fighters numbering in the hundreds were seen moving from Kebbi State into Borgu on motorcycles, with reports alleging convoys of armed men operating freely without resistance.
Residents warned that several rural and forest settlements in Borgu are becoming increasingly exposed as armed groups expand their presence across the region, raising fears of further insecurity if urgent action is not taken.
Borgu LGA, one of Nigeria’s largest by landmass, shares extensive forest boundaries with Kaiama and Baruten in Kwara State and parts of Bagudo in Kebbi State areas locals say are difficult to secure due to their terrain.
Community members also accused authorities of failing to respond adequately despite repeated warnings, saying the influence of armed groups in the area continues to grow.
I don't get the hype around CLI coding tools like Claude Code.
Human-computer interaction evolved past the terminal 30 years ago for a reason. UIs won.
Why are we regressing?
Propaganda. Instead of just figures, why not a blog post, and also explain why @officialABAT is obsessed with taking loans. If your "infographic" is aimed at telling the masses that he's doing well, why tf are you taking so much loans that even the IMF is worried? Why????
They call them bandits to make light of the situation. It's quite simple. Terrorism carries heavy weight internationally and as we all know, this government is all about PR and whitewashing, while their citizens die. So to prevent "issues" they call terrorists bandits.
DSS alerts Edo State of a possible planned mass abduction of school children by terrorists
I don’t know why the @OfficialDSSNG keeps calling terrorists “bandits”.
This is both dumb, stupid and insulting. With infrared cameras/thermal imaging, you can narrow down and locate these people. We know where they took these people from, draw a perimeter, send pilots to move around these areas at night. Fire, breath, body heat, etc. this is 2026 tf
Dear Oku,
Thank you for this comment. Security agencies typically use a technique known as triangulation to track people using their digital footprints. For triangulation to work, you would usually need cell phone towers, routers, or other means of tracking and tracing IP addresses, phone numbers, or social media accounts.
Alternatively, after securing a warrant from a judge, they can request such data from your mobile phone and Internet provider, who will then use triangulation or cell-site simulators to track you down and pass your location to the appropriate authorities.
Triangulation and other means of narrowing down your location work almost like science in urban and even rural areas. So, it is not difficult to trace people who live in cities, towns, and villages, once you have their digital footprints.
However, in environments like deserts, forests, and oceans, where humans do not typically make their dwelling and therefore do not leave a digital trace, it can be challenging to track people using triangulation or other modern tracking techniques, which rely on infrastructure that is typically not found in these terrains.
Now, that difficult situation is made even harder when the targets to be located are moving.
For example, Oyo State is roughly the same size as the five Southeastern states combined. And it is a state populated by several forests.
Opara Forest in Oyo, where some cross-border bandits are suspected to operate, is roughly the size of Lagos State. The entire Lagos State is only slightly bigger. Opara Forest is half the size of the whole of Anambra State.
There are no cell phone towers or routers in Opara Forest. Please fact-check me. So, the ability to digitally trace these bandits using triangulation is severely limited.
In fact, in the area around Ogbomosho, where the children were sadly abducted, which are the villages of Ahoro-Esinele, Yawota, and Alawusa, cell phone communications are extremely limited or nonexistent, because telecommunications firms, like MTN, and others, hardly have cell towers in those outlying towns. That's why it even took a while for the school authorities to alert the Oyo State Government, because there was no network in the area.
This is not limited to Nigeria. There are literally hundreds of small towns in America without network coverage. Believe it or not, millions of Americans still live without internet's millions. Please fact-check me!
Drones are a good means of reconnoitring extreme environments. However, drones face significant challenges in thick forests, as they can only fly above the ground, and ground visibility is limited or even impossible because the trees obscure their cameras.
Additionally, when these bandits hold children hostage, even if you can somehow find them in the heavily forested areas they operate in, neutralising them poses another risk, because they tend to use their hostages as human shields.
So, Oku, by now, I hope you can appreciate the significant topographical challenges posed by the environment in which these bandits operate. Therefore, I urge you and others making these unfair comparisons to please be patriotic and support our security forces as they do their best in very difficult situations.
Thanks again, Oku, and may God bless you.
Reno Omokri
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I saw one tweet suggesting that the kidnap of a celebrity might be the eventual trigger.
I thought the tweet was a bit dark, but it has floated my mind a couple of times - and I think I agree.
I don't just agree.
I might as well suggest a list of celebrity options.
“Let’s not blame the government. They are working hard. Sometimes the army can enter the forest and something will blind their eye that they won’t see the terrorists. All we need is prayer”.
This is the same fool here:
Why not, and this is me being genuine, why not just tell God to send angels to rescue the children?
It happens in the Bible all the time right? Now would be a good time to exercise your God given abilities, don't you think?