NewStats: 3,265,513 , 8,187,036 topics. Date: Sunday, 15 June 2025 at 12:45 PM m4h5t

The dynamic I want to observe and which is potentially world ending is that between Iran and Russia.

Iran has been supplying Russia with drones and missiles for years in their conflict with Ukraine as long standing allies. Iran has purchased limited air defense capabilities, indeed Iran has very little Russia gear. Why this is I don't exactly know.

But I suspect it has to do with Russia's strange relationship of convenience with Israel. Not to supply arms to a country that is a direct threat to it. Just as Israel also stayed out of the Ukraine war failing to heed the numerous calls to supply Ukraine with upgraded arms, munitions and technology.

But Russia will not let is primary ally in the middle east to go down and something is bound to give. Someone is bound to break the gentleman's agreement and step beyond red lines and then all hell will be let loose.

Calm heads are needed here.

This is the problem with autocratic governments and why working democracies are best placed to guarantee national security. When all the people feel they have a say in how they are ruled they are less likely to betray their nation, less likely to practice artificial patriotism.

This is the fundamental difference between Israel and its enemy neighbours. The people can change their leadership whenever they are fed up with it. But Iranians have been oppressed for so long that betrayal is the natural course of regime change so it is no surprise that Israel is able to recruit intel assets to enable it carry out surgical operations at will.

I think Israel took this preemptive strike because it felt the west was moving to some sort of nuclear deal with Iran which it simply cannot stomach.

Violence is never the means and end to any conflict for those who consider life precious. It only begets more and more violence and at sometime in the future will become unsustainable.

columbus007:
So what other names do you want people to call you then don't worry the Nigerian army are coming for you

They have been coming for them for twenty years. Forget it. They have no answers. Soldiers are not the solution to crime. The police is.

A police that has the powers of investigation to trace the source, map the structure and understand ad the mode of operation. It is beyond shooting, bombing and killing.

Nigerians must migrate to more cerebral ways and means of existence.

Okay sir. No vex. We will call you businessmen. Strategic investors in Insecurity.

Game has since started. No front page.

Anyway. Great game so far. Ahly repping African club soccer well with good play and the lion's share of chances.

Inter's pensioners doing well too but Mascherano must be living in cloud nepotism with all those Argentine players.

64th minute: That was close. Messi's free kick brushing the upstand. The legend remains the most dangerous player on the field.

In extra time another screaming cross shot from Messi that almost broke Al-Sharawy's back.

Final whistle. Nill all. Plenty chances created, none taken says the commentary. Interesting match and start to this weird FIFA money grab of a tournament. Even Infantino looks on nervously.

People should stop hyperventilating. America is a democracy and will always self correct. The man has a term to do what he feels has been undone by the Democrats over the years. After that it is back to LGBTQ dancing half naked on the White House lawn and Mexicans strolling across the southern border. Every dog has its day.

This is the problem with extremism. The excesses of the Biden era has resulted in this extreme right wing backlash. And the wild swings will continue in America for decades to come.

Just as we are concerned about this travel and immigration brouhaha we were equally horrified at the avalanche of migrants from the Americas the past regime. We knew the effect it will have on the Conservative, white leaning folks who remain the largest demographic.

For we in Nigeria....only if we could have our borders locked up similarly and restrictions made to a certain ethnic group from the Futa Jallon formenting genocide in Nigeria in cahoots with their cousins on this side of the border.

RevenuesBoost:
The top comments got me laughing, Nairalanders why??

You guys turn everything to fun

There's nothing as painful as losing what you purchased with your money.

It is not her money.
It is proceeds of illegality or corruption.
Her type are littered all over Abuja.
Folks that should be in the village farming rice are driving 200 million naira SUV's and building estates courtesy of the warped structure of this country.

Macky2:
This will be a good one, if it pulls through.

Have you converted the 35 Euros. There is no way that a sports only package will not be substantially more expensive than what we have presently.

We may ultimately be heading the route of PPV where events determine what will be charged.

Double edged sword if you ask me.

That is not what to spend so called subsidy savings on. You invest to drive down inflation, period.

You invest to raise the immediate productivity of the people through enterprise and mass job creation. That is what the economy needs, people working and producing stuff particularly costly foreign replacements.

When that happens then the overload will generate the revenues needed for infrastructure.

Hardly a single strategic economic thinker in the corridors of power. All they pursue is contracts, contracts and more contracts. Easy money where they ask you to bring a N100 pen for N1,000. That is why so called infrastructure is so attractive to the lazy, wasteful, corrupt drivers.

Please Nigerians empower into government those that think like true business, enterprise leaders. Those who know how to create and sustain independent wealth as a ion and calling not these political con men.

People will continue to die in large numbers until what I have been saying for 25 years happens.

The other day I severely criticized the shameful act of the lawmakers visit to the army chief to beg for security relief with all the powers of self governance they have. With all his pledges what has changed.

I just don't and cannot understand what the average Nigerian thinks about his life under this so called democratic rule.

What I know of people of other worlds is that democracy means they have the means and take the responsibility for their lives and well being. And that the role of government is limited to organising society. But they themselves are in charge.

How can a people just sit by and watch their fellow citizens decimated without a thought....sad.

npppact:
RE: Why Tinubu CAN Deliver Economic Reform , With Facts, Not Feelings

I respect Dr. Agbakoba a lot, but let’s not ignore the facts. Saying Tinubu cannot deliver meaningful economic reform because of the current political structure is half the story, and honestly, it downplays some major steps already taken that many countries are still struggling to get right.

Let’s break it down with intelligent analysis, global data, and real results. 

 Tinubu Is Laying the Foundation , Real Change Takes Root Before It Shows

Yes, GDP is growing at 3.3%, and no, we may not all feel it yet. But go check how it started in places like India or Indonesia , reforms always start with pain, then progress.If you remove fuel subsidy, unify the Forex market, and clean up corruption,you’ll feel the heat first before the benefits come.

But guess what?

Those changes are exactly what Tinubu is doing: 

Key Reforms Already in Motion

1. Fuel Subsidy Gone·        

* Saved ₦7 trillion+ yearly, now going into infrastructure, health, and transport.

2. Forex Unification·    

* No more multiple exchange rates. Investors now see a fairer system.·      
* FDI is already rising, and the black market is shrinking.

3. Roads, Rails, Ports·       

*  1,000+ km of roads and major logistics corridors under construction.·      
*  Inland dry ports = more trade and jobs.

4. Power Reforms·        

* Siemens partnership is rolling out.·      
* States now allowed to generate and distribute power.·       
* Lagos and Edo already jumping on it. 


5. Agricultural Push·       

* Over 3 million farmers already getting inputs, credit, and buyers.·       
*  Food inflation is slowing down, still high, but better than before. 

 Global Experts Agree: Reform First, Then Restructure

* World Bank, IMF, and OECD all say: focus on stabilizing the economy before major power devolution.
* You don’t hand over more power to states when many can’t even pay salaries. First, build capacity. Then restructure. 

 Tinubu Is Already Working on Restructuring

* A constitutional committee is already reviewing how to give states more power over mining, power, and infrastructure.

* Local government reform is also on the table , just not the loud, dramatic type people expect.


 My  final words on this:

The truth is, reform stake time. If Nigeria had kept jumping from plan to plan, we’d still be importing toothpicks and wasting oil money on fake subsidies.

So instead of saying“he can’t,” let’s track what’s already working and demand consistency and speed , not throw away the only real reform train we’ve had in decades.

The hardship is real ,but so is the direction. Let’s not throw away progress because it hasn’t yet matured. 

@naijapeoplesprosperitypact

With inflation at over 30 percent growth of 3 percent is a joke. It simply means one step forward, ten steps back. That is the reason why water on a red hot economic volcanic rock is not felt.

Inflation is recognized as the key hindrance of economic advancement everywhere in the world except Nigeria where the government thinks it can continue to spend beyond it's means without severe consequences.

I have been an advocate of all subsidy removal years if not decades before the APC existed and even through the pretentious 2012 flap by this President (which will haunt his legacy) as a necessity to restructure the economy of this country.

But what has happened so far and what Mr Agbakoba is alluding to is that the people have been forced to reform but government itself has not reformed. It is carrying on its wasteful, inefficient, corruption laden business practices. And this way of doing business can never float this country economically.

For reforms to work it simply has to cut across board. You cut waste (public subsidies) to save for productive investment. That is the short cut, the hack, the getting out of the pit way.

Government has to move away from the rent seeking, contracting economic model and to one of effecient expenditure on income generating assest acquisition. Spending on things that generate the values of job and enterprise creation.

Expenditure that seeds the industries targeted at import substitution for example so that Nigerians can begin to make the things they seek foreign exchange to buy from abroad. Only then will the pressures on forex abate and foreign exchange reforms have true meaning.

But if it's flagship moves are bogus, white elephant projects of dodgy economic values then the economic thermometer will never come down. A father cannot remove subsidy on his children's education by asking them to part time street trade and then be using the so called savings to upgrade the living room electronics and when they ask in anger he tells them he has also given their mum more money for food.

How the man chooses to spend the savings will make or break the family. This government has not changed the way Nigeria governments have spent to stupor since the Gowonesque years and such models, such ways and means cannot develop Nigeria.

GanagiBitrus:
This one be like story of tortoise we used to hear those days.


But it's possible sha, but I don't think it's real. .

It is not possible. Simple physics.

Okay....tralalalalalalalalalalalala....to make up for the latest ridiculous offering from Nairaland's minimum wage requirement.

Just because he is being called out on the expenditure of what the average citizen finds unimaginable for a project that has no benefit to him whatsoever.

See what the office of the Nigeria citizen has reduced itself to because of sentiment?

Step by step they are testing the waters of absolute social impunity and I just shudder to think what will happen when State capture is complete.

Folks, there is nothing but a revolution after that. This government and it's operators are removing the safeties one by one that hold the cap over the volcano simmering beneath the social fabric of this country.

Just hope I won't be around when it blows.

baratech:
FG buys STREET LIGHT for N393bn

FG renovates ICC with N39bn

But....

They want to build bamboo houses for you.... In 2025...

😂😂😂😂

Never seen such a socio-econmically skewed country as this.

Just don't know what will provoke the average citizen to end this charade and kick these people into the dustbin of historical infamy.

The insult and abuse of the common man and his timidity in response will be legendary in the annals of global history.

And the termites say, 'aye'....

Why didn't they think of this before renovating the ICC for a reported 32 billion. We will have saved a mountain load of change.... oh I guess Julius Berger does not specialize in straw works.

And I just , the 'poor' man has no hope in hell of reaching it's gates.

Cmanforall:


Nigeria has been on a good record in recent years. Whatever they are doing in the Aviation to ensure the safety of Nigerians, they should keep it up!

Meanwhile roads should be constructed and security restored, so people can travel safely by road

Africa generally has a good record. But skeptics will tell you it is because there are far fewer flights in this part of the world and it is only a question of proportions.

I mean if you watch 'flight radar', much of Africa looks like a desert compared to the jungle of aircraft movements over Europe, America and the far East.

frog12:
or he was not a enger and dem wan fabricate am bomb. the man did not have serious burns

Very bizarre I tell you. Cuts to his arms, soot on his face and clothes and a limp, that's all. Could have as well been a bystander on the ground.

But indeed he was on the flight with his younger brother who unfortunately perished.

frog12:
see seat diagram. he was on seat 11 ...

Meaning he was overwing, where the primary fuel tanks are.

Haba, there is no way in this world he will have survived if he was not ejected on impact. The plane must have ruptured in that area.

The survival zone of most air incidents is a lot closer to the tail. But even in this case everyone seated there was killed.

Mexyz:

Did you say 120k litres? Wow, but what does the aircraft need such quantity of Jet A1 for? Do they consume that much on a one way trip?

Yes, that is the fuel tank of the 787 and for the 9 hour nonstop to Heathrow the plane was likely going to carry a full load of fuel to match the almost full load of engers and crew.

franchasofficia:
Definitely an engine failure during takeoff, so the engine couldn't sustain the power needed to lift the plane to stable height, and the plane's weight dragged it downward to crash on a nearby building less than one minute after takeoff.


I suspect bird strike

Not sure anymore. The first set of speculations question retracted flaps and unretracted wheels just before the crash meaning pilot error.

Some are also questioning starting the take off run from about midway along the runway instead of closer to the start of the runway. Whatever the case the plane clearly stalled on takeoff.

lightwind:


That Man is very very smart and was very quick to unlock his sit belts before the consuming fire 🔥 comes. Others might just be feeling lazy and confused inside the plane. Because i am certain that what killed many of them was from the fire 🔥, and many was killed from the shock.

I doubt this. The explosion and fireball was immediate and total. There was no time for anyone to react. I think he was probably flung from the aircraft on impact if not he will have been roasted alive.

That aircraft carries over 120,000 litres of Jet A1, four tankers equivalent. The blast radius is not something you can out run.

ChiefOloye:
As how...how can just one person survive? Anyway msy the souls of the parted rest in peace

Well according to reports he was seated close to an emergency exit and managed to jump out.

Exactly how this is possible beats me because the aircraft pancaked and erupted into a fireball instantaneously.

I think the aircraft broke open on impact around the area he was seated and he was ejected still strapped to his seat which could cushion the impact.

If not he will have been burnt alive.

JaskanFactor:
the person filming the plane knew it was going to crash, thats why he kept filming even when there was no part of the plane left to see below the buildings. June 12 ritual sacrifice day. 666 day

Just plane spotting. No conspiracy here.

Originalsly:
From the video ... the plane just didn't climb ... system malfunction? Reports just mentioning the crash ... numbers and nationalities of engers but not that it was a Boeing Dreamliner. One would expect the model aircraft to be grounded pending investigations and the because of the crash but that wouldn't happen. There will be aggressive damage control in the next few days.

R.I.P

Two factors so far.

One flight radar indicates loss of signature within one minute - system failure.
Second the pilots declared a 'mayday' which is unusual for a takeoff meaning loss of control - system failure.

From the video one could speculate total (dual) engine failure. I hate to think the dreaded pilot error - flap setting. But the warning systems will virtually deafen the pilots.

NothingDoMe:
This is terrible news! Hope there are survivors.

You saw the fireball. Takeoff accidents are rarely survivable.

Gosh. What a tragedy. Looks like engine failure. Takeoffs are very, very risky particularly for long flights because the aircraft will be full of highly combustible kero.

When an economy tanks HSE, health, safety and the environment suffers and this includes the quality of food available to the public. Everyone, I mean everyone compromises one way or the other.

That is the primary incentive to get your economy working and working for all. It is your life and wellbeing you are fighting for.

ChybuzzDD:


Without that horn, what else does it have to defend itself??

It's mass. That is all it needs.
And if course it has enough fatty tissue around it's vitals to die last if the others make a stake.

It is about survival. The one that can take the most punishment will be the last standing. That not only means physical endurance but the the protection of its blood vessels and vital organs.

By the way none of them is likely going to bother the rhino.

ChybuzzDD:


"He assured the delegation that their requests would be given due consideration, though he acknowledged the current operational limitations faced by the military".

Can yiu !magine these űn ser!0us € d!0ts.

But when sending these same troops to protect their emergency rule in Rivers state and to the SE to shoot at innocent, unarmed youths, they don't experience any operational limitations!

They are saying the plain truth.
The Federal security forces are not enough to police the country to any acceptable standards. How many are they, all of them combined to police the 925,000 square kilometres of the country and 200 million people.... the resources are just not there.

Security is a demand pull service not an offering. Security is what you have on ground awaiting incidents, not what you react to snd start running around.

Do you appoint your local vigilante or maiguard after your house is burgled or you employ them to deter crime, detect crime and destroy criminality.

And if you and me as common citizens have this knowledge and little ability to protect our lives and properties what is stopping States and councils from having police services operating under the law.

Criminality continues unchecked and people die enmasse needlessly because there is a huge security lacuna between the individual citizen and the Federal government.

The lack of state and council security franchises is like having no state or local government. Can a country successfully exist like that, no. Government at all levels should be equiped with the independent means to secure their localities and territories because it is a core demand ofthe people who voted them in.

What I am seeing in the picture above is just absurd. You can never see this in any developed country. So disheartening.

While in the US the governor of California is exerting his independence and resisting the President's security interference in his State.

I guess this country remains as far from development as can ever be.

Whenever the federating states and councils are ready to grow from their kindergarten status and into istrative adulthood then they will begin to prosper.

These are the things we speak about, a decentralized security system where the country is delineated into zones or areas of security demands, such as the federating zones of state and local government having their own security network then specific places of high value, security zones like airports which should have their own security service outside the control of the regular or national police.

So that the unruly senator's security detail will have had no influence whatsoever to disrupt operations at the airport and in doing so both him and all those involved will have been promptly arrested.

A lot of lawlessness is perpetuated because of the centralsed security system we operate in Nigeria so the average citizen on the streets and in his place of business cannot bring the law into play because there is no responsibility and ability.

There is no reason whatsoever why such an airport of such importance cannot have security men pounce on top of the brigands within seconds of such serious actions. You can imagine if they were terrorists bent on causing mayhem. This is bad. Very bad. The image of the country is once again thrashed.