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Hi @MentallyAwareNg, please, this person has openly expressed suicidal thoughts, and I’m concerned about his safety. Could your team urgently reach out to him and help him access the appropriate mental health support?
To be honest, I find all the concerns you raised logically weak and unconvincing.
Do not Undermine Democracy
I have received with shock the news of an order by the Federal High Court in Abuja nullifying the emergence of the Chairman of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and all the actions he has taken. This is unsettling and surprising.
I do not challenge the ruling of the court. The court of law is constituted to determine disputes according to the law. My concern is that three months before a general election, it is in the public interest to have certainty. It is not good to have too many uncertainties about candidates and parties a few weeks before a presidential election. This instability is obviously engineered by the ruling party, just as they have done against me in the Labour Party and continue to do so to close down civic space for a robust campaign. It is also from the same rulebook that manufactures violence against us in our campaigns.
One mark of democracy is that at all times, it is voters and not courts that choose leaders. I trust in the judiciary. As a public officer, I have shown deep respect for the judiciary. I appeal that we protect the integrity of democracy by not undermining the free and fair choice of candidates.
The sustenance of democracy in Nigeria, in the midst of encroaching military rule in West Africa, should strengthen our resolve to protect opposition politics and not stamp out opposition parties. It is because of the importance of opposition to the sustenance of democracy that I have always promised that, as President, I will take a special interest in ensuring opposition parties are stable and thriving, and that opposition candidates are not persecuted out of electoral contests.
This is a time to strengthen our democracy by allowing the opposition to thrive.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Your assumption that Atiku’s absence could benefit Obi is interesting, and I can see why you think so, considering Atiku’s political influence in the North.
But I think you’re overlooking two possibilities.
First, Tinubu’s ability to negotiate. If Atiku eventually finds himself off the ballot, what’s stopping Tinubu from reaching an agreement with him?
Second, the NE. I wouldn’t assume that voters who supported Atiku would automatically move to Obi. Tinubu won Borno and came second in four other NE states in 2023. Some of those voters might prefer Tinubu to Obi.
So I don’t think Atiku’s absence would automatically favour Obi. His political influence could become valuable to either side, depending on who he decides to work with.
ADC's judgement is not a good news for PBAT. Hear me out!
The 2027 Presidential Election is supposed to be a 3 horse race- PBAT, Atiku and Obi. An election that has the 3 of them contesting for the same position will always favour PBAT, even if conducted a million times. With the recent judgement of the Federal High Court voiding Atiku's candidacy, it will now become a contest between PBAT and Obi.
If it eventually becomes a 2horse race, then the possibility of PBAT winning is slim; because if Atiku is not on the ballot, his camp can easily work and campaign for Obi, but on terms that I am not sure Obi's camp will accept. Anything just to get PBAT out of office.
So the best thing out there is to either have the 3 of them on the ballot, with Atiku's team accelerating the hearing of the appeal before the election, which I strongly doubt is possible, but looking at the sensitivity of the matter, it might not be impossible.
Dont go yet, 2027 just becomes more interesting.
Apart from Olamide, Bella Shmurda is another artist whose songs I can listen to repeatedly without getting tired.
There’s an interesting gap in your psychological interpretation. VDM didn’t need Davido’s friendship to criticise him. A man whose public identity thrives on confrontation can throw stones from outside the gate just as easily as from inside the compound.
Davido’s accommodating personality predates VDM. Perhaps he enjoys validation, perhaps his generosity feeds his ego, or perhaps he genuinely enjoys connecting with people. Why must his openness be interpreted as an inability to tolerate rejection?
And there’s something revealing about analysing someone’s insecurity only to conclude that he deserves humiliation. Sometimes our existing perception of someone influences the psychology we attribute to them.
An open door may bring trouble closer, but a closed door doesn’t guarantee peace.
On Davido & VDM. I have my thoughts together now.
It's no longer news that Davido, despite being one of the biggest superstars out of Africa somehow knows how to bring ant-infested rotting wood into his house.
A lot of you attribute it to "humility" but it really isn't - it is a psychological pattern I'll call maladaptive approval seeking disorder. It is the kleptomaniac version of validation hunting.
You know how kleptomaniacs are wired - it doesn't matter how much they are fed, how much wealth they're born into, how much of money they have access to - they NEED to steal to satisfy an urge.
That's how people with maladaptive approval seeking disorders behave.
It doesn't matter how many people cheer them up, the strength of their fanbase, how much love they get - they never seem to run out of the thirst for validation even if its from nonentities.
Davido, as an embodiment of this disorder, cannot stomach the fact that there are people who don't like him or don't necessarily fuck with him - to him, how is that possible? This is why he wants to be the knight posturing as someone's savior publicly even though he intends to ghost them (Madrina), buys the loyalty of presumed internet popular nuisances just to feed that disorder - like a kleptomaniac would.
It is a deep seated insecurity that predisposes him to eventual disrespect. In reality, he doesn't even rate himself. He doesn't enjoy who he is or what he has, unless he has to smash it in someone's face.
The disrespect he's getting, he actually deserves - because the very reason he associated with those nuisances in the first place was to use them as internet weapons in his media fights.
It is also poetically hilarious that my analogy for this tweet is the psychology of kleptomaniacs because he's also a thief, too.
Long may the disrespect continue.
People should understand that Lagos’s biggest advantage isn’t its infrastructure. It’s the commercial ecosystem that generations have built around it.
London remains the UK’s financial and commercial capital despite other cities having excellent infrastructure. The same applies to New York in the US.
Lagos has a huge concentration of consumers, businesses, investors, skilled workers and established commercial networks.
There’s also something people overlook: reputation and tradition. Generations of Nigerians have grown up seeing Lagos as the place to pursue business and economic opportunities. That belief attracts people, businesses and investment, which further strengthens its dominance.
People go where the businesses are, and businesses go where the people are.
You can build roads, airports and seaports elsewhere, but you cannot replicate decades of commercial relationships and economic concentration overnight.
What happens to the UK care sector when these migrants finally get ILR?
More than half of them will leave care work once they secure ILR. Some will move into better paying jobs, while others may eventually return to their home countries after obtaining citizenship.
Many are staying in care because their visas depend on it, not necessarily because they enjoy the job.
In a few years, the UK could face another serious shortage of care workers and find itself needing to recruit migrants again to fill the same vacancies.
But here’s the interesting part: what will the government use to convince new migrants to come and fill those jobs? A 15-year wait for ILR? 😂
🚨 SUMMARY: Shabana Mahmood's reforms to settlement in the UK for migrants
- Social care migrants who arrived before May 2025, earn at least £25,000 and meet their visa conditions will keep the 5 year wait to settlement, a U-turn on the proposed 15 years after Labour backlash
- Social care migrants who don't meet the above will be given a "second chance" and face a 10 year wait
- In another U-turn, 136,000 dependants of the eligible care workers will face a 5 year wait alongside their partners rather than having to qualify independently
- Migrants who didn't arrive by small boat will face a 10 year wait if they work or study, or 20 years if they don't. Small boat migrants will face a 20 year wait if they work or study, rising to 30 years if they don't
- The highest earners (£125,141+) will face a 3 year wait
- Doctors, nurses, teachers earning over £50,271 and refugees arriving through safe and legal routes will face a 5 year wait if they arrived before May 2025
- The standard wait for most other legal migrants will increase from 5 to 10 years, down from the proposed 15 years
- Migrants who breach visa rules or claim certain benefits will face a 20 year wait
- Migrants will also no longer be banned from claiming benefits after gaining settlement
- Anyone applying for settlement will need a clean criminal record, higher English language proficiency, no outstanding debts to the taxpayer and a record of sustained National Insurance contributions
If prayers inside the Kaaba are so powerful, why doesn’t Saudi Arabia simply pray there for protection instead of investing billions in modern technology and weapons to secure its country?
See how religion makes people think like zombies😂😂😂
Only a very few people in this world get to enter the Kaaba. In case you do not know how great this is for President Tinubu, let me enlighten you a bit.
Entering the inner chambers of the Holy Kaaba is not a tourist activity you can buy with money or political influence. It is a rare, highly exclusive privilege granted only to select global leaders and top dignitaries. It is a great spiritual honor that millions of Muslims can only dream of in their lifetime.
Spiritually, standing inside the Kaaba means you are at the very center of the Islamic world. While every Muslim on earth faces the Kaaba to pray, the person inside can pray facing any direction because they are inside the Qibla itself.
It is a space of profound divine mercy. It is the same spot where Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) prayed upon the conquest of Makkah, making it a sacred ground where supplications are guaranteed for acceptance.
So, if he says he has prayed for Nigeria in such sacred sanctuary, be joyous. That is one of the greatest places on earth for accepted prayers.
However, Nigeria will surely get better with the sincerity of purpose to act on the prayers made. Prayers must be backed by sincere leadership and decisive action.
Allah knows best.
Interestingly, I asked Grok and ChatGPT the same question, and they gave different answers. Grok chose D, while ChatGPT chose A. 😂
Both got it wrong.
The correct answer is B -4819.
Bro, I support your position. Japa if you can.
On the other hand, some people who japa are also returning home.
I have an ex colleague who took annual leave last December, travelled to Nigeria and never returned to the UK.
When I reached out to him, he told me he was tired of living in the UK.
Interestingly, judging by his whatsapp updates, he seems to be doing quite well back in Nigeria.
Japa is an opportunity, but living abroad isn’t for everyone.
JAPA IF YOU CAN!!!!
As an international student working 20hrs per week here, let’s say I earn around €900 monthly (which is mostly even higher). If I have worked for at least one year, I become entitled to unemployment benefits of around €500 until I get another job.
The government will even be the one sending me links for jobs while unemployed.
Nur be life we dey live for Nigeria 🇳🇬.
Arojinle seems to believe that anything that cannot be scientifically proven isn’t real. But he forgets that some things fall outside the scope of science.
Absence of evidence is not automatically evidence of absence.
