House of Reps Proposes Tough Penalty for Non-Voters in Nigeria

In a controversial move, the Nigerian House of Representatives has proposed a bill that could land citizens in serious trouble for failing to vote during elections.

According to the new proposal, Nigerians who choose not to cast their vote may face a 6-month jail term or a fine of N100,000. This move is aimed at combating voter apathy and increasing participation in the electoral process. However, many are already raising eyebrows, questioning whether punishing citizens for not voting is the right way to fix a broken system.

Critics argue that instead of forcing people to vote through threats and penalties, lawmakers should focus on rebuilding trust in the electoral process, ensuring free and fair elections, and tackling the insecurity that keeps many away from polling units.

What do you think? Should voting be a choice or a duty enforced by law?

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Read this with an open mind and have a rethink whenever you sees our security men especially the Army Navy and Air force..
*THE INVISIBLE WOUNDS OF THE NIGERIAN SOLDIERS*

By AH GULANI

The life of an average member of the Armed Forces is filled with confusion, sacrifice, and silent victimization both from within and outside our homes. While we are seen in public as symbols of courage and strength, behind closed doors, we are slowly fading shadows in the lives of those we fight to protect, including our very own families.

Our children grow up believing it is their mother who loves them most , who pays for their school fees, buys their clothes, feeds them, and nurtures them. Why? Because they barely see us. Duty calls us away , first to distant deployments, then to conflict zones. We miss birthdays, graduations, recitals, and religious holidays. To them, we are only a voice on the phone or a pixelated face on a video call.

Yes, salaries are paid. But more than 70% of it goes to our families to ensure their wellbeing. We work ourselves to the bone to give them comfort, yet our physical absence plants a seed of emotional distance. Many of us have missed Sallah and Christmas celebrations not once, but for years because duty had other plans.

By the time we die, our children don’t truly mourn our absence, it is something they have already grown used to. Our portraits on the wall are nothing but a formal reminder of a ghost who was once a father. We didn’t share enough time to leave strong memories. Even our wives may God bless them feel more like widows during our service years. Out of 20 years of marriage, we might spend only 30% of the time with them physically. Our lives are lived through calls and blurry WhatsApp video chats.

Our children sometimes deny us when we go on leave, unsure whether to call us “Daddy” or “Sir.” “Daddy, when are you coming back?” becomes a regular question, and with time, even that curiosity fades.

Our parents and siblings pull at us from one side, demanding our presence, our money, our attention. Yet we must answer to the call of service. Our childhood friends have become distant leaders.Our local communities now seem foreign. We miss weddings, funerals, naming ceremonies, family meetings. We are soldiers always away, always missing.

Even our annual leave is swallowed by part time professional development, or security emergencies. We are sometimes posted to remote regions, where our tribe or religion is a minority. Yet, with integrity and patriotism, we serve diligently.

And yet, it doesn’t end there. We’ve been victims of love denied , women refusing our proposals, not because they don’t love us, but because they fear becoming widows too soon, or being wives to ghosts, only connected by mobile data. We build beautiful homes with luxurious interiors, but we end up sleeping in trenches under the hot sun , onboard a ship on tiny best shaken by deep sea waves or in swampy forests, faces buried in dust, eyes scanning for enemies, hearts burdened by longing.

We have watched our comrades dying, some with bullets to the chest, others in pools of blood, whispering the names of their wives and children. And still, we fight.

We are mocked by some of the citizens we swore to protect. “Na dem dey beat us useless people ,” they say. “Wetindem dey even do?” they mock. We walk into markets and are charged higher instead of being honored. We are ridiculed in the media when one of us makes a mistake, but our gallantry and battlefield victories go unreported. When we fall, headlines read. ‘’Two soldiers killed by unknown gunmen.” No names. No honor. No legacy from the citizens except the armed forces honor.

Even worse, our enemies have become more organized while our sacrifices are not appreciated. We protect the integrity of the nation, ensure others sleep with both eyes closed yet our own families are restless because they never know if we’ll return.

Where do you want a soldier to belong? What do you want us to be?

We are not machines. We are human. We are citizens just like you. We bleed, we cry, we miss our families too. We are not foreigners , we are your brothers, sisters, uncles, daughters, and sons.

So please, Nigerians, if you cannot love the soldier, then at least show compassion. Love us for the sake of our wives who wait endlessly. Love us for the sake of our children who only see us in frames. Love us for the sake of the country we are dying for.

Despite the ridicule and discrimination, we still love you. We can’t stand by and watch you suffer not because we are commanded to protect you, but because it is in our blood to do so.

We only ask for one thing in return, your understanding, and your humanity.

God bless you and remain favour from Almighty God.

Nigerians don humble Peller

After Peller made that video where he told Nigerians not to bring their nønsense rãnts to TikTok but take it to the market, he løst over 900k followers on both TikTok and Instagram.

He has therefore , in recent video apologized to Nigerians. According to him, he said

"You people misunderstood me and my girlfriend Jarvis. When I said you should go to market, I didn't mean it that way. I'm only concerned about my source of income, there are a lot of guys that TikTok has changed their lives and TikTok is paying their bills and if you continue rãnting on TikTok, they might bãn it in Nigeria. Please, you should focus more on the government instead of facing me. I was misunderstood "_ Peller.

Meanwhile, some Nigerians say that is not a proper way to apologize, that he is still trying to justify his actions and words.

Nigerians are the wørst people to toil with. Them go come for you.

The other day, Dele Momodu said anyone that had 30m and still japa was a fool.

This is why Nigerians pack it all up and leave.

The way Bumpa's CTO, Teejay died is so cruel and justifies the decision of those who choose to leave.

You can have all the money and Nigeria will still fvck you up and you'll get no justice.

Teejay's bike was allegedly hit by Biola Adams-Odutayo's car and rather than get down to help or help drive him to the hospital, she said she didn't want blood to stain her car. She was driving in a one-way lane.

She remained in her car, making a call while he was on the floor, barely breathing and fighting for his life.

Bystanders carried him to two different hospitals and he was rejected. Others stayed with the woman to make sure she didn't run.

When bystanders couldn't get him into the hospitals, they came back and forced her to follow them in her car, hoping that'd make the hospitals accept him.

It worked and an hospital finally accepted to treat him. Unfortunately, he died a few minutes after he was taken in.

The police refused to charge her with manslaughter, choosing instead to arrest her for reckless driving.

She has since been released on bail set at 1 million naira and has allegedly fled.

There's a petition on Change. org calling for the police to do the right thing.

I don't believe in petitions because it almost never achieves anything, but I've signed it. You can check the link in the comments to sign it too and help Teejay's family get justice.

Ndiyo!
#copied

Ndidi begs Nigerians

"And the clueless Senator Nwaebonyi did not see it coming. He fell so cheaply into the trap. The feminist gladiators are on a war path. They want to prove issues of irrationality, sexual immorality, loss of character, emotional instabilty and so on against the hierarchy of male leadership in the country.
The outcome is so disastrous for the image of the screaming Senator against the more emotionally stable Dr Mrs Oby Ezekwesili.
The Senator's nervous screams resonating hollow with immaturity and dishonour tòld the whole story:"Who are you?" "You look like a wh*re!" "You are a ho*ligan" "You are a sh*me to womanhood!" The difference between the two combatants was crystal clear. That was how best a distinguished Senator of the Federal republic of Nigeria could react to a word of command from an ordinary citizen for him to shut up.

This was also a deja vu. A similar scenario was enacted on the day Senator Natasha Udaghan got her 6 months suspension from the senate. It looks like an emerging classic style of resistance initiated by Natasha Udaghan against phallocentric order in the Nigerian political leadership is sweeping across the women folks.The strategy of pricking the ego of the men in the most unexpected way. To shut them up and kick them hard on the raw nerve of patriarchal pride.
Let's watch out for the women and youths of this generation. There's a sense that the downfall of Nigeria's leadership can be cause by something very innocuous. Something as cheap as testing a leadership's patience, empathy endurance or emotional intelligence.
Meanwhile, I call on those close to Senator Nwaebonyi to tender an unreserved apology to Nigerians for his unruly behaviour on national television.

#Ekene_kwe_m_unu

All this big English no necessary, I fit start my gateman work now #nigeriansarefunny

Good morning beautiful nigerians
#richygroup1