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With this kind of turnout at direct primary elections, winning the main elections shouldn't come as a surprise at all

"The bread don't cut, I put the knife in / My left hand weak, I put the right in"

I wonder what the reaction of the British people was when the government introduced council tax.

Na Military Government fit us 😔

A Nigerian Air Force airstrike has obliterated terrorist hideouts in Southern Tubums.

"How dare you thank NELFUND...Interest-free student loan is not good enough" Governments in most countries around the world would marvel at what Nigerians want from their government

Terrorists who launched a coordinated assault on Kukareta community in Borno State around 3:00 a.m. on Thursday were decisively repelled by Nigerian troops, who neutralized 24 of them after an intense gun battle. Recovered items from the terrorists include 18 AK-47 rifles, three General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), and two PKT automatic anti-aircraft guns.

@KikelomoSowore @osemagnum Dipped!

@osemagnum Ayanmaaa

this is the only way to eat bread and beverage. if anyone says otherwise, dip them next!

PROCRASTINATION IN ISLAM You think procrastination is laziness. It’s not. It’s fear. And the Qur’an already exposed the strategy.

The reason is simple. We have little or no consequence for wrongdoing. Nigeria’s biggest problem, in my opinion, is impunity. Almost all our challenges can be directly or indirectly traced back to it. It has become second nature. Many Nigerians who behave well do so because they choose to, not because the law will be hard on them if they don’t. Those who behave well often do so out of personal conviction or, at best, social pressure. That is not sustainable. At the height of the Meffy FX round tripping, I attended an event where a friend pointed out a senior executive at the CBN. He told me the man was allocating millions of dollars at the official rate, adding about 100 naira per dollar as his spread, roughly 25%. Those who got access would then add another 150 naira and sell to manufacturers like me at a total premium of 250 naira per dollar, about 60% to 70% above the official rate. I looked at the man and told my friend that the reason he (the executive) and many others like him, could damage the entire economy so casually was simple. They were almost certain nothing would happen to them. They knew they would not face the consequences of their actions. If that man knew there was even a 10% chance of being caught, arrested, and jailed, he would not sabotage the economy the way he did.

At the end of the day, you will realise that incorporating Islamic ethics into your life is the only way to achieve peace, success, and tranquillity.

@arojinle1 Funny enough, some people watched same video and still believe whatever he was chanting actually worked

He was feeling like a Merlin. After pretending to recite or chant some things on the snake, he pressed its head well. Thinking he had pressed the snake's head enough to kill it, he released it. Had it worked, people would have thought he had powers

My wife sponsored my education to PHD but all she has is ND. Now I feel like she’s holding me back and she’s not my level I feel I have outgrown her and I should not settle for less. Am I selfish to feel this way or my happiness should matter?

Khutubah Jimoh kàn ó ju báyìí náà lọ

Watching videos of missile launch and wondering how did anyone even come up with such

Instead bringing up his Grammy nominations àbí?

This would be a hilarious take, if not that it brings back trauma for millions.  This , depicted here is an example of crude conversion tactics by any means necessary. Fair or Foul.  Millions of Muslim students faced this indignity. Either forced to change their names or convert to get admission into schools.  Or being beaten like this, for not having SOP's and Bibles, even when the teachers knew quite well, they were Muslims. Nigeria's Minister of State for Finance, (from Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State). Jubril Kuye, had to add Martins to his name. Hence Jubril Martins- Kuye. Former Attorney-General of Federation, Rashidi Akinjide had to become Richard Akinjide. Former Oyo Governor (Lamidi Adesina), had to shorten his name as Lam Adesina. Former Attorney-General of Federation, Prince Bola Ajibola, (from Owu,Abeokuta) had to remove his Muslim name "AbdulJabbar", to have a chance to go to school. Former AGF, (from Ikenne) Kehinde Sofola, said in a 2004 interview, in Guardian newspapers, he and his twin brother were beaten for not coming to Sunday School in Ikenne Methodist School, despite knowing they were Muslims, prompting protests from their father, Chief Sanni Sofola. Chief MKO ABIOLA's famous case of near conversion at BBHS Abeokuta is well-known, but for the insistence of his father Salawu Abiola, who resisted vehemently. In fact, the current Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, in a September 2017  interview with Sun newspaper told journalists, MKO Abiola wasn't made a prefect in BBHS, because he was Muslim, and only Christians were made prefects as a matter of policy. This wasn't a new issue in the 1930's though. As at the 1890's, the clear marginalization of Muslims concerned Lagos Governor Gilbert Carter, who mobilised American-Liberian Pan-Africanist, Edward Wilmot-Blyden, as Agent of Native Education, with one of his mandates being Muslim education. Others included Inspector of Education, the famous Henry Rawlinson Carr, Sierra-leonan Harun Rachid, and Henry Abdullah Quilliam, the Ottoman representative at the commmissioning of the famous Shitta-Bey mosque in 1894, appealing to Lagos Muslims to send their children to school. That approval was commenced in 1896, with first Government Muslim school , led by Imam Idris Animashaun.  Edward Wilmot Blyden found a method where Muslims could be taught, 3 R's Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography and History alongside Islamic studies without fear of conversion. Only two other Government Muslim Schools were established later. In Epe and Badagry, despite demands across  the hinterlands. The project was stopped in 1926, when colonial government cancelled the Muslim schools and told them to go to Missionary schools.  Some Graduates of that Government Muslim schools, formed the Young Ansarudeen Society.  This included names like Boonyamin Gbajabiamila, A.A Cole, Buraimoh Davies, Raji Onitiri,Kadara Savage, A.L Carew,Buhari Aka, Tiamiyu Sanni King and others.

They started crowdfunding and built schools in the same model of the Old Government Muslim Schools, The Ansarudeen.  These Lagos Muslims quickly spread to Ekiti, Ondo, Ibadan, Ife building schools and explaining to Muslims of the hinterland the benefit of education. This encouraged others like the Ijebu-Ode Muslim Friendly Society in 1927, and the Abeokuta-initiated Nawairudeen in 1939 to start schools Muslims could attend without been browbeaten to convert. These organisations and the likes of Muslim Juvenile Society, Muslim Literacy Society of Jubril Martins, LB AGUSTO, Aliu Babatunde Fafunwa were the mentors of Muslim students like A.R.A Sahid, Tajudeen Aromashodu, Saidah Anike Anibaba (later Professor Mabadeje), Nurudeen Alao, Sunmola Akin Laguda, who faced discrimination in schools formed the MSSN. They held their first conference in 1955, declared open by Oba of Lagos. Oba Musendiku Adeniji-Adele.  They also quickly made  the likes of  Sir Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji A.R.A Smith of Ilesa, Dr Saburi Biobaku, Alhaji  Inuwa Wada, Mrs H.M Shodeinde, and Alhaja Humuani Alaga as patrons and patronesses. The MSS spread quickld to Abeokuta, Ibadan,Ilesha, Ijebu-Ode and Ikorodu and within 2 years had covered all Government schools in the North. Its move paid off in 1959, when for the first time, the National Government under Tafawa Balewa as Chief  Minister did Students in Southern Nigeria get an holiday on Eid, for the first time in over 50years. Dr Lateef Adegbite, was to later in life become Secretary-General of NSCIA, and Attorney-General of Western Region. In that role, he helped intervene in the case of Liad Tella, who would later become the Editor of Concord Newspaper, over MSSN of Baptist High School Iwo, where he was pencilled for expulsion.  Dr Adegbite's intervention led to the letter sent by the Ministry of Education, to the Principal warning that no student should be compelled to accept a religion other than that of his parents. In 2022, Muslim groups in SW, fought a 10-year battle up to Supreme Court to get the judgement for Hijab to be regarded a right.  This was after a Muslim student was flogged 43strokes for wearing hijab to school in Kadara High School, Lagos in 2012. The country witnessed a national drama in 2017, when Firdausa Amasa, refused to remove the Hijab and was prevented from the Call To Bar ceremony.  She was eventually called to bar in 2018. Interestingly, Firdausa Amasa said in an interview, her own mother, too was discriminated against for wearing Hijab at the School of Nursing, in her own time. The impudence with which Alagba Ojeniyi wrote about the old times tolerance isn't new.  It finds itself in several reflections from public discourse to politics, when the so-called Yoruba Tolerance is regarded as when Muslims are told to endure iniquities in the guise of "mutual tolerance". "Haa, we miss the good old days when Kings could take peoples wives with impunity" The biggest irony is that, those Muslims who refused to be forced to convert would then be gaslit or blackmailed as "Alakatakiti" (The Extremists). One should ask Alagba Ojeniyi, what he feels should happen, if all Yorubas are forced to recite Qaidat Baghdadiy (Tira) and (Quran) as a requirement to get jobs, or enter schools.  He would find it incredible or raise the roof, if it happens. That is all you need as an answer about the so-called Yoruba Tolerance.

One doesn’t need to be an indigene of the State or be born in the state to be able to contest the Governorship of the State. It’s not a constitutional requirement that one must be from the State or be born in that state to be a Governor of the State. It is entirely within the discretion of the people in that state to vote whoever they desire to be their Governor. That is why it’s not only the indigenes of the state that vote the Governors. As to being a Lagosian, it’s a matter of indigeneship, and not just citizenship, which is usually determined by State policies and laws and being born in state alone does not confer you with the indigenship of that state. Even though this remains a serious constitutional concern, all the states and local governments have this uniform policy on indigenship. That is why to secure admission in state-owned higher institution of learning, like Universities, Colleges of Education and Polytechnics, and even in the public service, indigenous people from the state pay lesser fees and get higher percentages of admission and job opportunities when compared to people from other states, and that also includes scholarship opportunities. This also applies to Chieftaincy and traditional titles across all the states. Only people who are indigenous to each communities are those who enjoy the exclusive benefits of these things. That is why some states opposed conferring traditional titles on non-indigenes, as that is determined by the respective traditional laws of each state. Abia and Edo are recent examples. This topic about being a Lagosian or not is rather a very touchy and sensitive conversation which has long been politically weaponized, for obvious divisive reasons and expansionism. It’s rather unfortunate that we are still fanning this narrative that further heat up the tension around it, especially that elections are now near. We know many non-indigenous people from different part of the country that reside in Lagos, settle and have their families in Lagos, they will never claim to be Lagosians, for obvious reasons, including non-expansionism.

Would the president trust in whatever political/electoral structure Fubara believes he has to deliver the state in the next elections all because he's now an APC member? Would he rather stick to his tested and trusted equally troublesome ally, Wike