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In Nigeria, finding a reliable artisan is almost a personal achievement worth celebrating.

I was having a chat with a friend who thinks Nigeria is better off divided like North and South Korea. I asked him a question How do you intend the South would survive without food? He had this confusing look on his face? What do you mean the South can not survive without the North? The South has land and young people we will farm and produce our own food. I asked again... With which land? He said we have land now... I told him no the South doesn't have enough land that will feed it's high population. Also Southern youth aren't interested in agriculture compared to the North. More than half of the food we eat in the south are from the North. If you go to those states that borders the South and North (Abuja, Kogi, Kwara etc) you'll understand the amount of food haulage that happens every minute of everyday. The South has oil, the north has food. We are so integrated we can't do without ourselves. We depend everyday on each other for survival. We can only call for good leadership to bring out the best in our human and capital resources. May God bless and keep Nigeria.

I think we need new cities in Alaigbo. Most of the cities built by our forefathers are rather expanding or over crowded.

The reality about Nigeria religious demography which deep down all know is true , but we keep saying we are 50/50 to pacity a side.

Doing what job?

Truth

American youths don't just dislike the physical datacenters, they are fundamentally against it. Similar to how youth in Europe were against nuclear weapons A University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center survey found that 70% of adults under 30 oppose new data centers in their area. This is going to be a problem for the American stock market, the American economy and who will win the Ai race between China and the US. Chinese youth may also hate Ai, but cant do a thing about it. If politics also slows down Ai buildout, then America would have committed economic suicide

isn't she Bisola Olawale a UK-based content creator herself? I follow her and she and her husband share a lot about the UK. I do enjoy their content. It's all commercial unfortunately and folks want a piece of the market. At this point, I would say live and let live.

And here was I thinking that Fela created a new genre from scratch. The Funkees? Never heard their music. Why are they not popular in Nigeria?

I can count the number of real journalists I respect with five fingers. Rufai Oseni is three of them. I love that young man. He could be my son,

Alaska is a state in the US and it is bigger than the whole of Nigeria in land mass. Just 1 state out of the 50 states in the United States 🇺🇸 is bigger than Nigeria. @grok fact check me

In Owerri today, Peter Obi’s campaign vehicle moved slowly through a market on the way to the NDC town hall. What happened next was simple and, for many, unexpectedly moving: market women began pressing foodstuffs- tomatoes, vegetables, fruits and other produce, into the vehicle and toward him. Babies were lifted up. People smiled, waved and chanted. No cash was being distributed. The goods flowing were the women’s own stock.​ This is worth pausing over because Nigerian politics has trained people to read public displays of affection as either carefully staged or purely transactional. “Stomach infrastructure,” rice distributions, cash handouts and hired crowds are the familiar grammar. Here the grammar was inverted. Women whose daily capital is the produce they sell chose to give some of it away. In an economy where food prices have remained punishing and many small traders are operating with thin or negative margins, that is not a trivial gesture. It is a small personal sacrifice offered as recognition. Market women occupy a distinctive place in Nigerian public life. They are not abstract “voters.” They are the operating system of the informal economy; the people who buy from farmers, sell to households, and carry the immediate shock of inflation and currency weakness. In many Igbo communities they also function as social barometers. When they warm to a politician, it is usually because they have already formed a judgment about character, consistency or past performance. Obi’s long record of market visits (both as Anambra governor and as a candidate) and his repeated emphasis on production, small-scale trade and reducing the cost of living give that judgment a concrete reference point. The scene also sits inside a larger pattern visible across his current tour. He has been stopping in markets and interacting with traders in multiple states, not merely holding closed-door stakeholder meetings. The Owerri moment is one of the more spontaneous-looking examples. It does not prove that every crowd is organic or that every supporter is uninfluenced by party machinery, I agree, because this is politics. However, It does show that, in this particular place and at this particular time, a sizable group of ordinary traders felt moved enough to offer something of their own rather than simply receive. Politically, the Southeast remains Obi’s strongest base from 2023, and Imo is not an exception. What is striking is the durability of the emotional connection after the Labour Party fragmentation, the move to the NDC, and three years of national economic strain. The reverse gift; citizens giving the candidate part of their livelihood, is a vivid counter-image to the usual campaign exchange in which the candidate (or his agents) gives the citizen something in exchange for a photo or a vote. Whether that emotional capital can be converted into votes across a more competitive national field is a separate question. The video simply records that the capital still exists, and that it is being expressed in a language of affection rather than obligation. In a period when many Nigerians describe politics as extraction and leadership as distance, a market full of people voluntarily parting with their goods is a reminder of what recognition looks like when it is not purchased. That is why the clip feels emotional. It is not spectacle for its own sake. It is ordinary people briefly treating a politician as someone who has already earned a measure of their trust. End.