When i travel abroad, I always want to compare in terms of minimum wage, cost of living, state of governance & all.
Cos if a below average person abroad can eat chicken or turkey with less than $5 (less than N10K) why can we have that in Nigeria?
Our disposable income is POOR in this country.
@antonioguterres I am writing to respectfully express my strong interest in contributing my expertise in pharmaceutical regulation, supply chain management, and public health to the United Nations.
@antonioguterres Your Excellency, Sir,
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Alhamdulillah!
The wedding events of my union, which has expanded our family under our beautiful Nupe customs and Islamic traditions, have just concluded successfully in Kwara. The celebrations spanned three towns, Lafiagi, Tsaragi, and Ilorin; from the colourful Tsakan/Nupe traditional day, through the Nikkah, and ended with the reception. It was a beautiful gathering filled with love, rich cultural celebration, prayers, and the heartfelt warmth of family and friends.
To my Uwarigida, thank you for your understanding, patience, and cooperation, especially through the nay-sayings and challenges. Your strength and grace continue to inspire and steady our home.
To our beloved parents, siblings, extended family, friends, supporters, and well-wishers, we sincerely thank you for your sacrifices, guidance, and unwavering support. If I have my way, I would have mentioned everybodyโs name. You all stood by us and held us up in ways words cannot fully capture.
Special appreciation also goes to our mentors, friends, colleagues, and the wonderful community that showed up in large numbers, sent messages, gifts, and prayers. Your presence turned these moments into cherished memories.
May Allah bless every soul that contributed in any way, forgive our shortcomings, and grant us a blessed union rooted in love, peace, barakah, mutual respect, and lasting harmony.
Egi Nupe remains deeply grateful.
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What about Kastina, Kaduna, Kebbi, and Zamfara State where bandits kidnapped, rapped, and collect ransoms money for years? Do they not have cell phone towers as well?
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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As President, I would read 10 letters a day sent to me by ordinary Americans. At the Obama Presidential Center, weโll have some of the letters I read โ and responded to โ every night. I still get emotional reading them, and itโs one of my favorite exhibits.
Departed Toronto ๐จ๐ฆ on Sunday evening and arrived in Makkah ๐ธ๐ฆ at 2:00 am on Tuesday. What a journey!
May Allah accept their Hajj has an act of Ibadah.
Transited through London, Istanbul and Jeddah. Distance between North America and Asia is very wide.
Europe is the still the most strategically located continent. Do you agree?
Gowon's Autobiography: T. Y Danjuma Donated โฆ3 Billion, Dangote โฆ500 Million, Abdul-Samad โฆ25 Million
Retired Gen. Theophilus Danjuma has donated โฆ3 billion to support the public presentation of former Head of State, Retired Gen. Yakubu Gowonโs autobiography.
Aliko Dangote, Chairman of the Dangote Group, contributed โฆ500 million, while Abdul-Samad Rabiu, President of BUA Group, purchased copies of the book worth โฆ25 million.
The 20-chapter memoir, titled โMy Life of Duty and Allegiance,โ was publicly presented in Abuja on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. Vice President Kashim Shettima represented President Bola Tinubu at the well-attended event, which drew top government officials, diplomats, and senior military officers.
Bishop Matthew Kukah, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, reviewed the book. Danjuma, who served as Chief Presenter, was represented by retired Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, a former Chief of Defence Staff.
Beyond the cash donation, Danjuma directed the purchase and distribution of 12 copies of the book to the libraries of each of the 20 universities that awarded Gowon honorary doctorate degrees.
Zahra Buhari Harda Wani Yin Video โWai Mun Dawo Gidaโ
Toh Uwar Mai Kuka Wa Gidan? Keda Kikace Kunfi Kusanci Da Kanuri Akan Hausawa
Insha Allah Ko Akuya Baza Ku Kara Kiwo A Kasar Haus Ba, Kuje Chan Maiduguri Ku Mulki Kanuri.
Nan Ne Gidanku.
If Tinubu achieved this project. It will help federal civil servants working in Lagos who can't afford flight ticket. May this project be successful. Amen.๐
Sokoto- Badagry Superhighway:
1: Originallh proposed in 1980s by the President Shehu Shagari.
2: The 1000km project initially intended to connect Lagos to Sokoto but abandoned until the Renewed Hope Infrastructure revived it.
3: To connect Kebbi,Sokoto, Kwara, Niger, Oyo, Ogun Ondo to Lagos.
4: Funding: $516 million loan from Deutsche and Islamic Corporation to fund Sections 1, 1A and 1B
-(a): it is not a fresh loan but loans approved earlier by the National Assembly due for disbursement
5: travel time from Sokoto to Lagos will be reduced from 13 hours to 6 hours.
6; Trade and Commerce dey go increase significantly.
7: think of how you can benefit. Offline people dey benefit more than you.
In the U.S., we pay for water usage. After using that water for bathing or washing dishes, we also pay for wastewater treatment (sewer), which is often even more expensive than the water itself. If you consume 150 gallons of water in a month, you are also expected to pay for 150 gallons of sewer.
In Nigeria, many people are reluctant to pay water bills. Yet, in most states, sewer services are essentially free. Still, people complain about the lack of free water. The only way we can have a constant supply of pipe-borne water is by paying our bills.