NewStats: 3,265,468 , 8,186,809 topics. Date: Sunday, 15 June 2025 at 05:56 AM 385l5e

Omotaday:
I only saw this on foreign media two days ago. Lives has no value in Nigeria. Nigerians don’t even care.

May the victim rest in peace.

You said it well.
It was on X I read about it yesterday.

Even the state governor is outside of Nigeria, and I am not sure he is back, neither has he seen any reason to cut short his trip.

Racoon:
Perhaps the Nigerian istrative bottlenecks have also contributed to the challenges he ed through.

The comment I'm looking for.

If a billionaire complains about this, how would an average Joe and Dike (persons) survive starting a business in Nigeria?
Worse still, oil industry in Nigeria is for the cabal, and like the reason every sector isn't working. There are institutional demons that must constitute nuisance one way or the other. See electricity/power sector for instance. Video of Davido's father's testimony of sometimes ago comes to the mind about how his venture into the power sector was almost truncated.
Anything not working in Nigeria has hands of humans in it.

UcheKingsley1:
My opinion.

ATIKU/OBI is a game changer...

Check the possible outcome

North East - ATIKU
North West - ATIKU
North Central - ATIKU
South East - Obi
South South -Obi
South West - 50/50


ATIKU/OBI I cos anything OBI is a WIN for NIGERIA

You still think that actual votes count really?
Did Tinubu actually win by that figures of 2023?
You underrate INEC so easily in a country where the ruling party holds the rein of a commission meant to be independent. Tinubu is not Jonathan who conceded honorably

xynerise:
We should focus our frustration on Senators and Governors. These guys are bigger thieves than FG.

Both of them are thieves.
Whatever things senators are doing and getting away with, the presidency will look the other way so that when presidency wants to get its own deeds done and have some largesse and it needs to through the senate, senate also will pretend to be in and sign it.
They are fellow accomplices to each other.

In all of these things, how much are their online defenders earning...
I'm sure they are still under this thread defending them

In other word, you depict failure in full definition, sir.

Tntsi:
Tinubu will handle economy.
Shettima will handle security.
Failures in flying colours.

Tinubu and his team more interested in 2027, insulting his excellency Peter obi, recruiting senseless hungry Male and female youths as Twitter arms squad and littering lies and propagandas all over the place, online and offline.

These guys have hardly spent 2 years, they are more interested in reelection in the next 2 years with a lot decamping

I have never seen anywhere that is done.

We are not a sincere people. Either we don't ask questions or the evil leaders re using metaphysical means to enslave people to be zombies. I believe the former to the latter though...we forget too easily, and we don't ask pertinent questions, and then become accomplices. These leaders keep up because some Nigerians have vowed their max s.
The people being killed are humans...this is the same book haram, former government, a general, claimed has been defeated.

Why are people vowing s for second term for the government that can't keep promises? The other day, life insurance is being demanded for the President, his Vice and so on, so an average Nigerian doesn't deserve protection, but those who see government seat as retirement thingy.

Lol

If it favours them, it is not a ln issue, but if it doesn't, it become a crime.

How do you say you practise a democracy and then one-party state is used in the same sentence? How?

It is a house of card, it always falls and always a heavy fall.
People ing your party are not doing it because they love Nigerians, it is for self preservation and to escape probe, possibly

Jaylord12:
Akpabio is so senseless...You are the number 3 citizen in Nigeria,u have the mantle to solve the problem called insecurity but u have not made any significant impact on insecurity....You should cover your face in shame...Obi is not the president, vice president or senate president...

Just imagine the ineptitude.
You Mr. Akpabio has been around power at centre, the very top echelon for decade running, what has that done to Boko Haram?
He has been a senate minority leader since 2015, then a minister, then back to senate

Paramount01:


You mean this man that made pregnant woman die as a result of doctors non strike? Pls justify his actions that will not make you look like a son of the devil.13 month sir ,not 13 weeks ,the longest strike of doctors in Nigeria and yet you are still shouting his nameabeg ,if your wife is among those people that die during those periods due to strike if doctors will you still be shouting his name ? But because he is our tribe or our religion, we care less .May the soul of the innocent souls judge those people that are ing him.

Make sure you are not deranged and have a sound mind before you reply me.
I am not his tribe...for as much your little mind thinks I am his tribe and I am ing him.

If anyone called Obi becomes President and he doesn't do the right thing, I will criticise him. I am not a tribe slave...and by the way I am not his tribe.

Think well, my post you replied to never mentioned Obi nor speaks in his defence. But it is a borderline mental exhaustion to think what I mentioned are not real or happening real time in Nigeria. To shy away from it and think it doesn't speak ills of the country is even insane.
Your present leaders keep on watching while kidnapping, killing, maiming, marauding are on all time high, yet that to you doesn't look like demarketing the nation. They visit foreign hospitals like it is 5 minutes away...that doesn't sell Nigeria cheap right?
UCH Ibadan was in total darkness for more than 100 days in 2024...do you know how big that place is...and how many lives would have been lost as a result of such thing...

I am not a party person...I am not for a singular person like your mind fooled you to think. If Obi did what was bad, call him out, but don't overlook what the present clueless so-called leaders are doing...people who have no reason whatsoever to lead Nigeria.

If you can't reason right, don't engage me.

Who demarkets the country like the leaders who did not develop their own health sector but keep leaving for foreign hospitals at every signs of headaches? Who robbed the treasury silly and then go to keep the money in the foreign lands...you don't know the meaning of demarketing?

Shame on all those on here glorying in his kidnapping process in the name of arrest and praying thay he shoulf remain there.

Nigerians are the #1 enemies of themselves.
Politicians in Nigeria know most Nigerians well, and this is why they have perpetuated their ways. Stockholm syndrome at work.

So, if people didn't speak up, or no one saw when he was kidnapped by the power that be, they could have even made him disappear forever...

I ain't VDM fan, but government and her agencies should be busy with doing what is right rather than trying to harass voices calling their ineptitude and corruption out.

Nigeria of Jonathan's era wasn't this woeful, yet the ruling power of today did worse to him.
If you don't want to be criticized while in a democratic setting,don't go near power at all.

This video says it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-rPjfejQ8o?si=ouUmBSANM8ki5i0I

mrvitalis:
This is what NOI was talking about in her interview last week or so

This has never worked in the history of mankind

Ability to produce something should not mean you should produce it...

Importation is not what's killing our economy lack of export is and our trade balance is not even as bad as India

This policy would just make people poorer

Nice one reading the above.

The banning that Buhari did, what was the outcome.
The government that's entrenched in trial and error who removed subsidy and floated currency without working solutions at hand...
Is it the same day you ban foreign importation that your local companies thrive? You are copying America...copying an already established system?
Where is the electricity to produce locally? The roads to transport goods are where exactly?
The diesel/gas is at what cost again?


Nigeria news is sickening

jaxxy:


Some people didn't like FELA too. They said he smoked igbo and many other things but did that mean he didn't speak the truth and advocate justice for the masses?

I'm sure to u FELA was a nuisance even under military rule.

Same way the Jews and pharisees pushed the romans to crucify Jesus.

Many people holding Fela's name dear today didn't like him in his days. He was never perfect, but who has filled his space to speak truth to power ever since?
People hardly value what they have until lost.
Humans are one mysterious creature.
Until Buhari became the president, Jonathan wasn't that respected, same with Yaradua.

They claim vdm calls people name, so if an honorable is stealing, he shouldn't be called corrupt?
One of the worst places to be is to try to save people, the same people are likely going to vilify you. History is filled with examples.

Sonnobax15:

TBH,I'm so baffled seeing how some Nigerians have found joy in the arrest of VDM......come on,this is someone who has been fighting for you and I... Someone who has put his life countless times on the line just to see no Nigerian is oppressed..... Someone whom you and I aren't bold enough to emulate.......But there you are, criticizing and happy that he was arrested........And you think Nigeria can ever get better when some of you still possess such illicit mentality? Never!!!

#freeVDM..

Most Nigerians deserve their leaders.
They are in tune with their oppressors.

shoodboi2:
He has said too much and the next thing is to silence him. His only offence was pointing out the corruption and stink oozing from the offices of those who call themselves EFCC.

You kidnapped someone and didn’t talk about it. Then, once he was tracked to your offices, you turned around to claim he was picked up by the SSS, when it was you who called the SSS to pick him up.

They also refused anyone access to him, including his attorney and those who brought food to him. Then, all of a sudden, they are looking to charge him to court. Instead of chasing shadows, maybe the EFCC should focus on cleaning up the garbage in their offices. They are easily the most corrupt agency in this country despite being an anti-corruption agency.

You have sense, and you said it as it is.
Too many ignorami and dunces on this platform arguing like someone with no deposit of grey matter whatsoever. Clouded by bias and of course, ignorance. They are largely why the government keep enslaving the nation. They keep justifying the same system and government which has rendered them the way they are. Until so many of them see otjer places other than Nigeria, they wouldn't be able to quantify the damage Nigeria system has done to them. The system that makes you feel less human

Lifestone:

Calm down.
I can assure you that VDM was arrested with a valid warrant of arrest. Anybody can be arrested if you are suspected to have committed a crime. Police, efcc and other law enforcement agency can't arrest everyone, so the fact that other were not arrested was never an excuse in law, that is rule of law. Agreed that everyone is equal before the law, but even in the advance democracy like the USA, we know that's not always the case.
My point is that anywhere in the world, when you called out a law enforcement agency like VDM did, you can be sure you will soon run into troubles.
If VDM is audited for tax evasion only, he will go to prison. He should just face front.
You mentioned DT, abeg don't just go there.

You know the facts, and you yourself know that you are trying hard to bend it, even though it is obvious. You must really be a foreigner living in Nigeria.
We all know what we are doing.

Efcc chairman said above a year ago that he would resign if he didn't prosecute Yahaya Bello. The same Yahaya Bello walking free today, not arrested for once, but you are here pontificating the shitty things happening to ordinary people as normal.
Which law are you reading upside down that when a government institution is called out, the next thing is to abduct the person, blindfold him and beat him and then keep him locked behind bars for days without appearing before court? If you have a court order to arrest someone, do you arrest him to lock him up without taking him to court? Did you know how lame what you typed up there sounds?
Help yourself, listen to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frSkmz31KXY?si=eSLqbG2C3eDXo28k

EFCC claimed VDM was arrested as a result of petitions from various people whose names can't be disclosed? So, he doesn't have a right to go to court and lay bare his facts and all that.
I knew the days of Abacha, possibly you weren't yet born or still small, I can tell you that a lot has not changed going by the most recent trajectory.
Things are so bad in the country that individuals don't even know how a democratic country should be run again.

Case rested; please learn better. What's happening in Nigeria is not how a normal state should be run.

Lifestone:

VDM Should face front. He dabbles into too many things.
The day he called Efcc out for arresting E-Money, I knew a day like this is coming, it was a matter of time them.
I'm sure this is to teach him some hard lessons.

You are still missing so many points.
Calling out EFCC is wrong on why they do did selective judgements, how? They arrested one person for disregarding naira and letting another persons go scot free?

We all knew a day like this would come for VDM, because it is what has defined the society called Nigeria. And that's what makes it a lawless society. Why do the politicians keep escaping the law? Because they have intimidated all into believing that if they voice out, they will be arrested


Try to gain knowledge a bit.
EFCC is simply police unit cut out to address special financial crimes.
There is no law of the land that empowers anyone to arrest someone and lock him up without charging him to court. That's not a working country, that's a jungle.
If VDM has contravened any law, deal with him, but let the court be the one to decide, not you arresting and locking up someone and refusing him access to food, and you are here claiming that VDM dabbles into too many things. Go and learn what true democracy means. The way AC party plus Tinubu constantly lampooned Jonathan as the then President, if Jonathan was a powerdrunk person like them, he would have arrested some of them. That was what the istration of Sani Abacha looked like, by killing dissenting voices. But this is a democracy. Even President Trump is criticised on social media...how many people has he arrested?
If law enforcement agency cannot observe the law, you don't have a country.

Lifestone:
Can a person of VDM exist in China? Never

Let's attune to the message and leave the nationality of the messenger.
China does not practise westernized democracy like Nigeria claims to do, so China is out the question. When Ali Baba critiqued the Chinese government he was dealt with.
The message is clear, if Nigeria claims to practise democracy, Nigeria should really do democracy, not witch hunting individuals who speaks against the ills of the society.
VDM is not a Saint, I am not his fan, but the path Nigeria is taking, things will get to boiling points someday unless there is a change.

helinues:


Those who arrested him came in all black. That's DSS not EFCC

Now that EFCC has come out with their chest, that it is responsible for the arrest, any further defence in their favour again?
https://nairaland.macsoftware.info/8417209/why-arrested-verydarkman-efcc

By the way, which section of the law says that someone "dragging the others", (in your own words" should be locked up without being taken to court? Should he denied food? And those he dragged who reported him shouldn't be named?

Not calling a spade a spade is one of the reasons the country is becoming worse than a jungle.
This is the intimidation antics those oppressing Nigerians have always used.
And again I maintain that his arrest is connected to calling out efcc for arresting emoney for mishandling naira and and for not giving Okoya kids same treatment when they did likewise. Every other allegations are secondary. Even if he dragged people, is it abduction or an official kidnapping the way to go about that? What happened to the court of law? So anyone can go to EFCC and ask them to arrest anyone that offended them? What is the primary functions of that commission again?
Someone called the country a zoo, is he not being proved right on the daily?

Zulu11zulu:
I don't understand did efcc have any rights to give bail or curt of the law.

You see why wee call Nigeria animal kingdom, how can you give bail in police station before taking him to curt what is the Job of Magistrate.

It is called official abduction or better still official kidnapping.
Which law says that someone can be locked up without being taken to the court because the person in question slandered some powerful people? Efcc, is the police, the court and the judge...

helinues:


Those who arrested him came in all black. That's DSS not EFCC

Okay.
The position still holds, either DSS or EFCC, security forces are nothing but tools of intimidation and harassment. The ills and vices in every corners of the country, the kidnapping, ritual killings and banditry activities have not been curbed in the least percentage, but when citizens express their displeasure against what the mad men in politics are doing, then suddenly the uniformed become informed enough to incarcerate and harrass. At the sound of protest, they develop their superpower
I have been in other places, I have seen that Nigeria government at best is still using prehistoric, barbaric skills to rule their people.

If they claim that people elected them, why are they not answerable to the people? Ruling the most populous black nation like it is 5th century. They criticized other ruling party of yester years more than this, but with them, the country has gone down the more and they don't want to take criticism.

I am not a fan of VDM, either long or short, but the government which can't take criticism isn't for the people

helinues:
This is purely junk news by Vanguard.. Arrested for cyber stalking by EFCC? Is Cyber stalking the duty of EFCC?

Hahaha, I still when NPF created a website for cyber stalking and anything related to online matter for people to report those who might have been attacking others unnecessarily on social media.

I reported someone and they gave me the link for proper reporting. Let me even check my email self

It is the same intimidation rule. The last video he made was calling out efcc because efcc picked up emoney.

When people say that Nigeria has been captured by the powerdrunks,their paid dummies come online to defend their paymasters. A country run like Nigeria where intimidation has replaced the law and corruption is the new law...aiming for growth is going to be seen a mental sickness.
It will touch everyone praising the anomaly parading itself as a government of the progressive.

DMerciful:
Oturugbeke

It is finished!

Tinubu, master strategist with no strategy

Who dash am strategy?
Politics of stomach infrastructure.

Now statistics don dey chop dem

Whatever they may release,
It might not change anything.
Nigerians are not ready.

Some paid fools would rather die than not the man called BAT with all questionable traits ever traceable to a public leader

Reno is looking for job. An hungry man is a dangerous man.
The next he wants to do is to worship BAT and swear by his name.

What most Americans are tired of?

Are you playing?

jmoore:
Solution: Ban public grazing.


But government doesn't want the solution.

Because they don't want to offend the north, and thus lose their votes during elections.
They all know what they are doing. Running a country like a circus

Ola64:
The current gale of defections pervading the political sphere may be a disruptive booby trap for the ruling party, APC after all. Or what do you feel👌
By the time nominations/primaries for the 2027 elections hots up, there may be a tsunami that will consume the "broom " party expectedly 🤛

It is a matter of time, abd observations will be proved right.
PDP claimed that they would rule for 50 years. Where is PDP today?
The so-called APC is not even an organic party that grew in a normal way. Those that ed are self-serving and seeking folks who are bent on getting their shares. No proper ideology and principles.
That someday APC will collapse is a sure prophecy. Any structure built on shallow foundations won't the test of time.

FreeSpirited:
I dream of a time when a real leader will emerge in AsoRock who will review all national monuments that our useless looting corrupt politicians have named after themselves... And properly rename it with a name more befitting and honorable. It will happen

I believe that also...
Institutions are named after people by another sets of people after them, after they possibly have delivered services to the people meritoriously...but heck no!
These folks have taken the dishonour lower than ever known. How do you name a government institution after yourself when still office? It is a new kind of low, a record-setting low.
I think Buhari started and championed that anomaly.
If you are truly great, you won't be seeking to immortalize your name by yourself naming edifices and structures after yourself...but no

We can't you all just become APC once and for all?
People without personal dogmas nor ideology...anywhere belle face kind of humans.

Reign only with the reigning one today, then by tomorrow tiptoe back to wherever things are happening...

You all should declare everything as a one-party country

YoungLionken:
Crossed which line🙄? Well, the masses are not ready yet to fight and secure their freedom from the kingdom of darkness in our government. Until then, let's keep ranting online and do nothing offline...

This has always been my stand.
Nigerians are not ready

Just look in the first page...
You would see measly paid fools leaving the message to attack the messenger.

Spade is spade.
Your President cares less for anyone. Just himself, his family and obsession with power.

If the present evil happening around has touched any of you guys' family, you wouldn't see any good but to condemn anyone sitting on the seat of responsibility but who has decided to run when most needed.