NewStats: 3,261,592 , 8,174,444 topics. Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 05:51 PM 536uw

BlueRayDick:


The bold is the major issue. Most of the trucks being used to ferry PMS are old and not road worthy at all. Most of the oil companies do not really invest in new tankers regularly. (Although those trucks are actually expensive particularly in this current economic situation we find ourselves in Nigeria)

The big ones actually invest in brand new ones.

But even an old one can do the job, as long as it is taken care of religiously.

The problem is not whether it's night or day.

Another issue is the recklessness of the drivers. Travel on our highways, and see them parked at various toll gates, consuming alcohol and drugs. Then they jump into the cabin and drive.

Avoiding accidents has to be very intentional, starting from the character of the driver. All these bans change nothing.

izzou:


The big ones actually invest in brand new ones.

But even an old one can do the job, as long as it is taken care of religiously.

The problem is not whether it's night or day.

Another issue is the recklessness of the drivers. Travel on our highways, and see them parked at various toll gates, consuming alcohol and drugs. Then they jump into the cabin and drive.

Avoiding accidents has to be very intentional, starting from the character of the driver. All these bans change nothing.

In addition to this, I think they need to educate the drivers that every road including private car owners have equal rights and right of access to the roads. They should stop feeling because their trucks are big they own the road and can run off smaller vehicles off the road.

Some of those drivers will sit up high in their truck and be looking down on other vehicle owners. Sometimes if u no get mind, u go wan park make dem commot before u continue ur journey.If our road safety were to be working effectively, they should be arresting them for overload, drunk driving and overspeeding . Instead of doing this, road safety will be looking for private cars that don't have fire extinguishers or tokunbo tyres that have expired. I doubt road safety even check tyres of these trucks.

BlueRayDick:


In addition to this, I think they need to educate the drivers that every road including private car owners have equal rights and right of access to the roads. They should stop feeling because their trucks are big they own the road and can run off smaller vehicles off the road.

Some of those drivers will sit up high in their truck and be looking down on other vehicle owners. Sometimes if u no get mind, u go wan park make dem commot before u continue ur journey.If our road safety were to be working effectively, they should be arresting them for overload, drunk driving and overspeeding . Instead of doing this, road safety will be looking for private cars that don't have fire extinguishers or tokunbo tyres that have expired. I doubt road safety even check tyres of these trucks.

FRSC doesn't need to stand on highways and flag down truck to check. Doesn't make sense

Every Tanker must be filled at a depot. That's the best place to inspect them

There's a company on Snake Island. If you want to carry your tanker or truck to Snake island, they would conduct serious checks to confirm if it is road worthy, before the truck can enter the barge. If it fails the test, they turn you back

What is wrong if FRSC have those checks at the depots?

Instead of attacking the main problem, they result to ban. As if the ban will make a faulty truck without brakes, not to kill people.

izzou:


Whether Night or day, those accidents will happen

Because many trucks in Nigeria are carrying beyond their stipulated weight, and many of them are not even road worthy.

Make we dey fight the wrong battle.

At night accident are limited or less casualties
I am concern about casualties in the day because of busy road unlike at night

BlueRayDick:


A lot of maybes, ifs and wishful "what could be" in this post with nothing really substantial.

1. For starters, Atiku has proven consistently oved the past 30 years that he does not have what it takes to win a presidential election.with him as the flag bearer of his party. Gaslighting any section of people in the opposition to him will.not make him the president..

2. It is 2025 and u can see most politicians in the north and south declaring their for Tinubu. Maybe you don't know these defection have implications particularly on areas where me and u do not have eyes and ears; places where we will only hear their results being read on the media. The voting results in these areas will be written and announced and there's nothing anybody will do about it.

3. Atiku claimed to have north in his political bag in 2023 when there was no Tinubu incumbencg power, we all.know how that claim tor to shreds by results trickling out of the north after collation.

4. The people Atiku had issues with in his PDP have not even been pacified yet; in fact he has made more adversaries and kept on losing his ers including his VP in the 2023 elections.

5. Anybody u like u can , it is a free world and a democracy. But it is evident that a lot of people who had voted in 2023 with hope to see an Obi presidency will abstain from the elections the moment he decides to be an extra Tyre to Atiku. This is Nigeria and Nigerians have seen the "power" VPs carry

I specifically take issue with #5.
Only gen alphas will opine that VPs can't be powerful in Nigeria.
That's not a foreign concept. It happened before. Idiagbon. Recently with Atiku who Obasanjo had to beg to complete his second term and who scuttled Obasanjo's third team bid.

Also, it is quite interesting that in 2023, you all were adamant that Obi would win when the lack of core Northern votes made him unelectable.
But here you are, 2 years before an election, calling it quits and taking the time to come up with a long list of reasons why a coalition of Atiku and Obi that earned 13 million votes in 2023 does not stand a chance after Tinubu's performance.
How do you consistently make decisions that benefit Tinubu politically but want to gaslight critics with shalaye.

Somehow Obi who could beat Atiku and Tinubu in 2023 cannot tag team with Atiku to beat Tinubu after an ittedly disastrous half term.
Get a grip!
Politicians are defecting. That's your excuse. How many politicians defected to LP in 2021 for Obi to get 6 million votes?
How many politicians did Obi serenade in 2021 to get 6 million votes?
Atiku did have the Northern vote in 2023. Look at the vote tally. Tinubu did not win any KKK state.
That was not a fluke. If you all Tinubu agents hadn't voted for a political terrorist, Atiku will be president today.
And if in 2027, you shun an Atiku/Obi ticket to sit at home or vote Tinubu, accept wholeheartedly that you worked for Tinubu's second term.

We've had excessive wailing on this thread and elsewhere on social media about Tinubu's misgovernance.
You could swear that Tinubu was the worst President in Nigeria's history.
Then you get the opportunity to change things and you--ittedly one of his loudest critics--are coming up with a list of excuses why you will not vote a ticket with Obi on it.

Tinubu is a failure. But you will not vote for an Obi alternative.
I want y'all to go on the record. So we know any Tinubu complaints going forward are theatrics and mental gymnastics.
You cannot call an election 2 years early and forego a rescue ticket and coalition with your savior in it, and you want to play-act as a Tinubu critic.

-Lord

iamoyindamola:

At night accident are limited or less casualties
I am concern about casualties in the day because of busy road unlike at night

Is the goal to prevent accidents or to reduce casualties?

If the tanker explodes in a residential area at night, what would the casualty report look like??

LordAdam16:


I specifically take issue with #5.
Only gen alphas will opine that VPs can't be powerful in Nigeria.
That's not a foreign concept. It happened before. Idiagbon. Recently with Atiku who Obasanjo had to beg to complete his second term and who scuttled Obasanjo's third team bid.

Also, it is quite interesting that in 2023, you all were adamant that Obi would win when the lack of core Northern votes made him unelectable.
But here you are, 2 years before an election, calling it quits and taking the time to come up with a long list of reasons why a coalition of Atiku and Obi that earned 13 million votes in 2023 does not stand a chance after Tinubu's performance.
How do you consistently make decisions that benefit Tinubu politically but want to gaslight critics with shalaye.

Somehow Obi who could beat Atiku and Tinubu in 2023 cannot tag team with Atiku to beat Tinubu after an ittedly disastrous half term.
Get a grip!
Politicians are defecting. That's your excuse. How many politicians defected to LP in 2021 for Obi to get 6 million votes?
How many politicians did Obi serenade in 2021 to get 6 million votes?
Atiku did have the Northern vote in 2023. Look at the vote tally. Tinubu did not win any KKK state.
That was not a fluke. If you all Tinubu agents hadn't voted for a political terrorist, Atiku will be president today.
And if in 2027, you shun an Atiku/Obi ticket to sit at home or vote Tinubu, accept wholeheartedly that you worked for Tinubu's second term.

We've had excessive wailing on this thread and elsewhere on social media about Tinubu's misgovernance.
You could swear that Tinubu was the worst President in Nigeria's history.
Then you get the opportunity to change things and you--ittedly one of his loudest critics--are coming up with a list of excuses why you will not vote a ticket with Obi on it.

Tinubu is a failure. But you will not vote for an Obi alternative.
I want y'all to go on the record. So we know any Tinubu complaints going forward are theatrics and mental gymnastics.
You cannot call an election 2 years early and forego a rescue ticket and coalition with your savior in it, and you want to play-act as a Tinubu critic.

-Lord

You seem to be flogging this matter more than the contestants

Atiku and Obi have confirmed there's a coalition. Why not wait to see if they would stick together or not?

After all, it was Atiku that ditched Obi for Okowa in 2023. Maybe he didn't also know the power a VP has.

Relax. Make dem draw lineup first.

izzou:


Is the goal to prevent accidents or to reduce casualties?

If the tanker explodes in a residential area at night, what would the casualty report look like??

What's a tanker looking for in a residential area at night , are PMS or lpg tankers supplying to residents now
Like I said I am more concerned about the casualty because day or night accidents happen but can be limited at night

iamoyindamola:

What's a tanker looking for in a residential area at night , are PMS or lpg tankers supplying to residents now
Like I said I am more concerned about the casualty because day or night accidents happen but can be limited at night

Are you sure you're living in Nigeria?

You haven't seen petrol stations in residential areas?

How do you think they get products?

izzou:


Are you sure you're living in Nigeria?

You haven't seen petrol stations in residential areas?

How do you think they get products?

I see petrol or gas stations on road side, the tankers don’t enter street to supply them
What ever accident that can happen these petrol stations in the same residential areas is what can happen to the tanker
If a petrol station catches fire the so called residential buildings are hardly affected

izzou:


You seem to be flogging this matter more than the contestants

Atiku and Obi have confirmed there's a coalition. Why not wait to see if they would stick together or not?

After all, it was Atiku that ditched Obi for Okowa in 2023. Maybe he didn't also know the power a VP has.

Relax. Make dem draw lineup first.

Theflint1:

Obi tested his popularity. It would have gone either ways.

He was in PDP until the week of the primaries, after finding out that Atiku would pick Okowa over him. You are not blaming Atiku for such an erroneous decision. Na innocent people wey choose from the trio, we go blame.

Someone who didn't have any single structure politically, is to blame for the failure of the one that had almost 10 governors, and enough senators on his side.

LordAdam16:


I specifically take issue with #5.
Only gen alphas will opine that VPs can't be powerful in Nigeria.
That's not a foreign concept. It happened before. Idiagbon. Recently with Atiku who Obasanjo had to beg to complete his second term and who scuttled Obasanjo's third team bid.

Also, it is quite interesting that in 2023, you all were adamant that Obi would win when the lack of core Northern votes made him unelectable.
But here you are, 2 years before an election, calling it quits and taking the time to come up with a long list of reasons why a coalition of Atiku and Obi that earned 13 million votes in 2023 does not stand a chance after Tinubu's performance.
How do you consistently make decisions that benefit Tinubu politically but want to gaslight critics with shalaye.

Somehow Obi who could beat Atiku and Tinubu in 2023 cannot tag team with Atiku to beat Tinubu after an ittedly disastrous half term.
Get a grip!
Politicians are defecting. That's your excuse. How many politicians defected to LP in 2021 for Obi to get 6 million votes?
How many politicians did Obi serenade in 2021 to get 6 million votes?
Atiku did have the Northern vote in 2023. Look at the vote tally. Tinubu did not win any KKK state.
That was not a fluke. If you all Tinubu agents hadn't voted for a political terrorist, Atiku will be president today.
And if in 2027, you shun an Atiku/Obi ticket to sit at home or vote Tinubu, accept wholeheartedly that you worked for Tinubu's second term.

We've had excessive wailing on this thread and elsewhere on social media about Tinubu's misgovernance.
You could swear that Tinubu was the worst President in Nigeria's history.
Then you get the opportunity to change things and you--ittedly one of his loudest critics--are coming up with a list of excuses why you will not vote a ticket with Obi on it.

Tinubu is a failure. But you will not vote for an Obi alternative.
I want y'all to go on the record. So we know any Tinubu complaints going forward are theatrics and mental gymnastics.
You cannot call an election 2 years early and forego a rescue ticket and coalition with your savior in it, and you want to play-act as a Tinubu critic.

-Lord

This one u are crying more than the bereaved, it appears as tho u have seen a revelation that Atiku will fail once more(Like he usually does). Shebi Atiku has what it takes to unseat Tinubu with his so called northern votes in the bag, let him go and win the election na. Is it a must that we vote for him with his numerous baggage?

The so called north that should be Atiku's strong forthe, he was flogged there in 2023. So what exactly is he bringing to the coalition ? At least Obi swept the South east, did well in the south south and fairly well in the south west .

What u call wailing about Tinubu's misgovernance , I hope u know Atiku ur god is an active participant in the wailing fest. He would always find his voice to wail but when it comes to speaking truth to power on what concerns the general populace like the religious extremism that ended the life of Deborah, he would lose his voice .

Whether u like it or not, we cannot be gaslighted to vote the perennial election loser in his 81st year on earth. Please advise him to spend more time with his grand kids and great grandkids and allow younger candidates who have the interest of this country at heart to chart a new course for the country

Nihilistjnr na yansh your guy they press for movie now 🤣🤣🤣

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Osun PDP senators have endorsed Tinubu

Adeleke go soon cosign....A PDP state oh

But na Obi wey no get anything inside go cause Atiku failure in 2027.

Very laughable

izzou:


Obi tested his popularity. It would have gone either ways.

He was in PDP until the week of the primaries, after finding out that Atiku would pick Okowa over him. You are not blaming Atiku for such an erroneous decision. Na innocent people wey choose from the trio, we go blame.

Someone who didn't have any single structure politically, is to blame for the failure of the one that had almost 10 governors, and enough senators on his side.

Na pain and fear of another failed election bid dey boil their blood.

BlueRayDick:


Na pain and fear of another failed election bid dey boil their blood.

I can understand if there's regret of both of them not aligning

But blaming Obi for it is just crazy.

Atiku dumped him and picked Okowa Let's assume Obi didn't contest in 2023; Tinubu still won

Suddenly, Obi shouldn't have left, when your MCM dumped him for Okowa, who couldn't even last 2 years as opposition, before flying to APC.

Make it make sense

izzou:
Osun PDP senators have endorsed Tinubu

Adeleke go soon cosign....A PDP state oh

But na Obi wey no get anything inside go cause Atiku failure in 2027.

Very laughable

They want obi's vote, he should collaborate with atiku
It's high time we have just 2 parties in this country all these division of votes is tiring

iamoyindamola:

They want obi's vote, he should collaborate with atiku
It's high time we have just 2 parties in this country all these division of votes is tiring

Well, there's a coalition going on.

Let's await the verdict

izzou:


You seem to be flogging this matter more than the contestants

Atiku and Obi have confirmed there's a coalition. Why not wait to see if they would stick together or not?

After all, it was Atiku that ditched Obi for Okowa in 2023. Maybe he didn't also know the power a VP has.

Relax. Make dem draw lineup first.

Atiku that can't mend fences with his own people/party is whom he is under the illusion that he will unseat Tinubu. smh.

Almost all the south south states that had PDP in power are embracing APC , but he is under the illusion that Atiku still has them on lockdown.

PDP is still being troubled by a faction led by Wike boys, that has not been sorted by Atiku o. The south western states bar Oyo are tilting towards APC. Even the Oyo state governor makinde has no love for Atiku and still feels he squandered the party's chance of winning the 2023 elections.

All of these is not their own headache, na people wey say dem no go vote Atiku/Obi if Obi belittles himself into accepting the incosequential VP slot be their headache.

izzou:


I can understand if there's regret of both of them not aligning

But blaming Obi for it is just crazy.

Atiku dumped him and picked Okowa Let's assume Obi didn't contest in 2023; Tinubu still won

Suddenly, Obi shouldn't have left, when your MCM dumped him for Okowa, who couldn't even last 2 years as opposition, before flying to APC.

Make it make sense

All those blaming of Obi is coping mechanism na.

semid4lyfe:
Wetin dey sup in Ivory Coast?

Nothing absolutely Nothing. Disregard all those rumours flying around on tiktok.

popizaino:


Nothing absolutely Nothing. Disregard all those rumours flying around on tiktok.

Omo SM will soon destroy the world

Ibime:
How will a grown man that drives a respectable car by Naija standards, always flexing on Instagram, and has 6 brothers including one in South Africa be asking for N100k to stitch a cut in his child's jaw. Some billers are shameless and disgusting. Like BlueRay once said, no matter the medical emergency they bill you for, somehow they never die if you don't ascede to their request

Seen something similar. Some men are very shameless most especially yoruba men .https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJkhjOzxEOJ/?igsh=eTc5NWlnNmNmcjFo

popizaino:


Seen something similar. Some men are very shameless most especially yoruba men .https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJkhjOzxEOJ/?igsh=eTc5NWlnNmNmcjFo

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liveLongNprospa:


Atiku had 7m with the help of pdp structure in the last election.
That structure has been destroyed.
Just yesterday senators declared they were not with him.
PDP governors have not declared any for atiku.
His former vp has left him for apc so meaning he has no cash cow to fund his state.
Tinubu has already started working on finitri in adamawa.
Wike and the g5 are still fighting against atiku.

So again, what is Atiku guaranteeing us?
We all saw what obi has done without structure, why should we a ticket that puts atiku at the head when Obi is the one still active even after elections and his base growing stronger.


Between Obi and atiku, who is the politician that people will be ready to fight for?
I mean it's not like atiku has more money than Obi.

So truly why should Obidients a ticket with atiku at head when he is of no electoral value right now without the pdp structure.
If he wants to be vp candidate then sure, but any ticket that doesn't have Obi at the top after all the work he has put in.. Then you must be smoking kwale weed (and trust me I can recognize the effect of that particular strain😁)

Na you destroy the structure?
No b who first build house dey name street.
Leave the political tug-of-war to the politicos.
Players are holding their cards close to their chests. Much of what you're seeing are feints.

In late 2026, all that'd matter is if Atiku, or any opposition coalition, has the votes to unseat an incumbent.
Atiku and Obi to their credit are currently working on that.
While you are prematurely running around screaming the sky is falling 2 years before election day.

I don't know how your brain works.
Obi as VP to an octogenarian will be one heart attack away from the Presidency.
All he has to do is run out the clock.
Whether by divine providence or through the ballot box, a VP Obi is President-in-Waiting.
How is that bad?

This is not complex.
In 2019, Obi was given the VP slot.
In 2023, he left. Y'all claimed Atiku did not do enough to retain him.
In 2025, Atiku has reached out to iron differences, and if reports are accurate, Atiku has agreed to whatever Obi put forward.
But y'all are coming up with new BS.

An Atiku/Obi coalition is Atiku's silver bullet.
That's the golden ticket they'd tly present to the politicos and Northern Oligarchs to rally .
Tinubu can throw $ at everyone. It's not his money. The treasury will still be there if he is bundled out.

-Lord

iamoyindamola:

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BlueRayDick:


This one u are crying more than the bereaved, it appears as tho u have seen a revelation that Atiku will fail once more(Like he usually does). Shebi Atiku has what it takes to unseat Tinubu with his so called northern votes in the bag, let him go and win the election na. Is it a must that we vote for him with his numerous baggage?

The so called north that should be Atiku's strong forthe, he was flogged there in 2023. So what exactly is he bringing to the coalition ? At least Obi swept the South east, did well in the south south and fairly well in the south west .

What u call wailing about Tinubu's misgovernance , I hope u know Atiku ur god is an active participant in the wailing fest. He would always find his voice to wail but when it comes to speaking truth to power on what concerns the general populace like the religious extremism that ended the life of Deborah, he would lose his voice .

Whether u like it or not, we cannot be gaslighted to vote the perennial election loser in his 81st year on earth. Please advise him to spend more time with his grand kids and great grandkids and allow younger candidates who have the interest of this country at heart to chart a new course for the country

I will not be drawn into an extended exchange of diatribes.

The bottom line is that you are an Obidient but will not vote for Obi in a coalition he negotiated to be VP.
After complaining about Tinubu's istration.
That makes you an agent of Tinubu working for his second term.
Anything else you're saying is a load of horse sh*t.

-Lord

LordAdam16:


I will not be drawn into an extended exchange of diatribes.

The bottom line is that you are an Obidient but will not vote for Obi in a coalition he negotiated to be VP.
After complaining about Tinubu's istration.
That makes you an agent of Tinubu working for his second term.
Anything else you're saying is a load of horse sh*t.

-Lord

I am not an Obidient. I am a Nigerian who voted for Obi in the last election and will note vote for Atiku if he's on the ballot whether Obi decides to contest or not.

No be u go tell me who I go vote for. When u said u will only vote Atiku or Jonathan, did u see me fighting with u over ur personal political decision ? Did I gaslight u and start calling u names? If u don't want to be drawn into diatribes , then u will respect my own decision not to vote the 81 year old Dubai resident in 2027.

I will complain about Tinubu's istration like every other person when he's taking decisions that can 4ck the country up. I'm sure Atiku too will continue to complain if and when he loses the election again. Nothing spoil.

LordAdam16:


I will not be drawn into an extended exchange of diatribes.

The bottom line is that you are an Obidient but will not vote for Obi in a coalition he negotiated to be VP.
After complaining about Tinubu's istration.
That makes you an agent of Tinubu working for his second term.
Anything else you're saying is a load of horse sh*t.

-Lord

so a truncated exchange ?

izzou:


You seem to be flogging this matter more than the contestants

Atiku and Obi have confirmed there's a coalition. Why not wait to see if they would stick together or not?

After all, it was Atiku that ditched Obi for Okowa in 2023. Maybe he didn't also know the power a VP has.

Relax. Make dem draw lineup first.

Dem never draw lineup before our resident Obidients start dey talk say Atiku/Obi ticket no dey viable.
Shey u no see their comments ni.

Until raumdeuter start dey argue say d lineup make political sense.
An avowed Tinubu or nothing er pushing back at an Obidient saying he will not vote for an Obi VP ticket.

E no dey bother me personally.
If we're using Buhari as a yardstick, Tinubu has earned a second term.
And I say this as a person who'll never vote for him. Worse case, I'll stay home.
But you cannot be a vocal critic of Tinubu apparent mishandling of the country, simultaneously tout Obi's excellence, then publicly declare that an Atiku/Obi pair is a non-starter.

Dem still dey forward lineup list, you don already dey tok say d lineup no get chance.
But you queue under hot sun in 2023 to vote person when get 6,000 votes for Katsina.
Opposition dey build ship, you don already start dey drill hole.

Wike is a PDP member in a Tinubu government getting N1.5T budget every year. But Atiku will sideline Obi as VP and he'd have no say.
Why person go dey yarn easily trashed opata?
Tinubu openly. Nobody go beat you.

-Lord