Tinubu has tackled problems no one has agreed to face. When Buhari-Idiagbon came in, IMF asked us to devalue our naira. Buhari refused, citing it woukd cause economic pressures as Nigeria was import-dependent. IBB came and started Structural Adjustment Programme that started a downward spiral of our economy. Abacha did his best to keep exchange rate stable and boost our external reserves.
Then came Obasanjo and Atiku who started defending the naira by pumping dollars into the economy instead of pumping dollars into infrastructure and factories. From 1999 to 2023, almost $390 billion was spent on that scheme. Additional $53 billion was spent on fuel subdidy. Atiku and his team have promised to bring back these subsidies.
Tinubu has tackled both problems. Anyone who means well will agree with the Oba of Benin that we do not need to go back to the old ways of doing things.
Tinubu is doing well. Is there hardship, yes. Will his reforms yield long term benefits and sustainable growth, yes.
What is Atiku's plan? Reopen borders that are open to start transborder trade that is ongoing. Bring back subsidy in a way that is not even clear to Atiku. Destroy Tinubu's policy of allowing market forces control exchange rate. Sell NNPC while Tinubu is still paying obligations to former NITEL and Nigerian Airways workers Atiku's liquidation failed to care for. Make his friends rich as they are entitled to be rich as he himself said. Make von Batten Okeke rich by giving excuses on his inability to release FBI files.
So no, Atiku is not the answer. Atiku was the problem.
nairalanda1: IN other words, you are waiting for some super power to come and give you biafra.
All the trhee leaders you see, formed parties and worked for decades to get to this point, and even then, it's not a given yet.
The thing that annoys me about biafra agitatiors is not their agitation, or biafra, but the fact that you guys spend too much time on the internet or dancing on the streets of foreign cities holding biafra flag and singing songs of freedom or formenting violence in your region in the name of agitation.
But you won't do the spadework, or the hard democratic work to get your biafra in Nigeria. And everytime it is pointed out that you have to do that work, you shout Hausas will stop you, and then call on donald trump to come and save you.
I have told you people, if you want Biafra, go and get other like minds from other tribes and form a National Restructuring Party. WIn seats in the national aseembly and local government areas and states. DO the work of good governance to show us that you are good and better than APC and PDP and all of them...and when you get enough states and members in the NA, put a law forward that would allow for the peaceful breakup of Nigeria
You think that SNP, Plaid Cymru and SinnFein started yesterday? It has taken them over 100 years to reach this point...some may even say 200 or more years.
Instead you do violent agitation to provoke the Nigerian state...thinking that dead bodies would win you sympathy. As you can see it has not worked. As much as trump dey sing, a united NIgeria is in America's interest, as is a united UK.
SO, show America by building support for secession from the roots up. And by building cross support across all Nigerian tribes. Because at the end of the day, the problem is, most minority tribes, most of the major tribes, and even most igbos support the contraption for now. Shouting anti-fulani tropes won't get you Biafra...building a cross -tribal and regional party that can fight for true restructuring at the center will get you biafra eventually
But you guys are incapable of serious thought and humilty, which is why you will call me hausa slave and tinipoo supporter, instead of learning..lol.
Succinctly stated.
That young OP you responded to here is totally oblivious of the fact that those groups in the photograph have been in existence for several years and we the older ones here remember full well when the IRA (the militant wing of Sinn Fein) was bombing several British landmarks and even targeted Margaret Thatcher for outright assassination back in the early 1980s before peace was restored. Even the Scots right in the past voted to remain in the UK. I doubt if this move to balkanize the United Kingdom will eventually fly.
His mom is Nigerian - a supermodel - who has worked with V. secret and many other notable brand. He's half Nigerian, half Italian with American citizenship due to his immigrants parents.
I'll take it that you don't understand how this thing works.
Hey! You are very uncouth with your use of foul words in addition to your baseless ramblings in the last paragraph. As a Diasporan and veteran member of NL since 2005 (for 21 years now), it's become very obvious to me that a significant number of you the younger ones who have populated this NL discussion forum are CLEARLY impulsive in your responses to topics and dysfunctional.
I stated CLEARLY in my post that the boy is "Italian-American" through his Italian-born biological father, though he has a Nigerian heritage through his mother who we knew years back when she started off her career as a rookie fashion model in Lagos. How is that different from what you posted in your second paragraph?
Last but NOT least, I will NOT hesitate to block you if you do NOT learn to read properly and understand what other informed folks have posted before responding to topics here. Period.
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emkz: Reno Omokri asked if the US Federal.Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has criminal records on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Does The FBI Have Any Criminal Record on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu?
Recently, the media has been awash with sponsored reports and headlines claiming that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has released so-called "criminal records" of His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to a U.S. judge, Honourable Howell Beryl, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
These reports have since been amplified on social and traditional media by the President's political opponents, who have further asserted that the President is fighting to keep those records from the public.
These claims are untrue, and these individuals and their surrogates are using clever semantics to deceive the public.
Unlike some of these groups and media organisations, [b]I physically went to Chicago, Illinois, between September 18 and 20, 2022, to investigate these claims and found them to be fallacious.
President Bola Tinubu has no criminal record in the United States, Nigeria, or anywhere else, and the FBI has not provided any criminal record on the President to anyone because none exists.
Yes, FBI records may contain his name, but they are NOT criminal records.
Please fact-check me: The US FBI regularly keeps billions of non-criminal files on American citizens and residents, as well as foreign nationals, through the FBI's Central Records Systems and Next Generation Identification database.
For example, if you have ever applied for a US visa, the FBI likely has a record on you. This is because the FBI conducts MANDATORY background screenings on behalf of the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security on US visa applicants.
Thus, as a US citizen or resident, or even as a foreign national, if your name is run through the FBI databases, it is likely to bring up hundreds of pages of records. This does not mean that the records are criminal. In most cases, they will be benign.[/b]
Such records may include personal biometric, biographical, and financial information, such as fingerprints, DNA, bank statements, and other private records.
Would you, as an individual, want your private records released to your political opponents, even if they were non-criminal?
However, on the specific issue of criminal records, the Nigerian public should be made aware that the FBI has itself stated that it has no CRIMINAL records involving Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
This was made known as far back as Monday, February 3, 2003, when the then Governor of Lagos, Mr Bola Tinubu, was having political issues with the then incumbent President. The then Inspector General of Police, Mr Tafa Balogun, wrote to the Embassy of the United States, seeking information on any FBI criminal records involving Mr Bola Tinubu, and got a response back the next day from them giving the all clear as regards any criminal records involving Mr Tinubu.
This was consistent with my findings when I visited Chicago in 2022, as a member of the opposition, to establish the truth about then-Presidential candidate Bola Tinubu's academic and other records.
Nigerians may want to find attached the response from the Embassy of the United States absolving the then-Governor of Lagos of any wrongdoing or criminal conduct, charges, or activity whatsoever.
Those who may question the authenticity of this document may also wish to contact the US Embassy in Abuja or Lagos for clarification.
The US Embassy in Abuja may be contacted via ConsularAbuja@state.gov.
Bemigho Reno Omokri
Ambassador Designate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.
Unlike some of these groups and media organisations, I physically went to Chicago, Illinois, between September 18 and 20, 2022, to investigate these claims and found them to be fallacious.
President Bola Tinubu has no criminal record in the United States, Nigeria, or anywhere else, and the FBI has not provided any criminal record on the President to anyone because none exists.
This was consistent with my findings when I visited Chicago in 2022, as a member of the opposition, to establish the truth about then-Presidential candidate Bola Tinubu's academic and other records.
Nigerians may want to find attached the response from the Embassy of the United States absolving the then-Governor of Lagos of any wrongdoing or criminal conduct, charges, or activity whatsoever.
Those who may question the authenticity of this document may also wish to contact the US Embassy in Abuja or Lagos for clarification.
The US Embassy in Abuja may be contacted via ConsularAbuja@state.gov.
emkz: Most of Atiku's interventions and ambitions failed catastrophically.
His privatisation of government assets ended up ruining workers of NITEL and Nigerian Airways. It is Tinubu who is now paying their pensions.
In 2023, his presidential elections petitions failed. He went to Chicago to prove Tinubu never graduated. He failed again.
In 2026, he contracted a certan von Okeke Ikemefuna to bring FBI files on Tinubu. Ikemefuna has been failing to produce the files. Daily, he tweets on those he is reporting Tinubu too. With $1.2million, Ikemefuna has failed to give Atiku diplomatic immunity to enter America.
In his NYSC court case against Tinubu, Atiku is failing so badly that it is shameful. Here are AI-enhanced image of Tinubu's university certificate, and NYSC certificate. I also include the source documents. Atiku contends that the A in the university certificate is Ahmed and it is not Adekunle as contained in the NYSC certificate.
Dear Atiku, what exactly is wrong with you?
And yes, the subsidy plan Atiku designed failed. The refineries owned by government collapsed under Atiku and Obasanjo. If Atiku ever becomes president, he will fail.
NOTE: The AI version contains some errors. The main message is the readability of the original.
RaySimran: Nigerian-American racing driver Ugo Ugochukwu has been crowned the 2026 FIA Formula 3 Champion after finishing second in the final race of the season in Madrid, Spain.
fergie001: I have a Masters in Law from England and my specialty is International Banking
The President (Bola Tinubu) was not investigated by the FBI. That is a wrong statement; it is a fallacious statement. Some persons were investigated by the FBI. The President was an accountant, and he had some clients funds. Those persons had been indicted by the FBI and as a result of that, will I say they are suspicious funds, and when it got to the attention of the President, he agreed for a forfeiture.
Interview with Seun & Reno Omokri, Nigeria's Ambassador-Designate to Mexico
treesun: Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Self-help Author Robert Kiyosaki Is $1.2 Billion In Debt
"Rich Dad Poor Dad" Self-Help Author, Robert Kiyosaki Is $1.2 Billion In Debt by treesun(op): 10:41pm On Sep 01 Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Self-help Author Robert Kiyosaki Is $1.2 Billion In Debt
Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki — the self-help guru who has made a fortune preaching the secrets of financial success — has amassed a staggering $1.2 billion in debt tied to his sprawling real-estate investments, according to a report.
The 79-year-old scribe has repeatedly touted the eye-popping figure while arguing that borrowing money to buy income-producing assets is a strategy used by the wealthy.
“So, I’m a billion two in debt,” he told the “Get Rich Education” podcast over the summer.
He added that people “[s]hould not do what I do, right?”
“Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki has repeatedly touted being $1.2 billion in debt as part of his investment strategy.
“Rich Dad Poor Dad” author Robert Kiyosaki has repeatedly touted being $1.2 billion in debt as part of his investment strategy.
“But I studied it since 1974… If you’re going to learn to use debt, you’d better take some education.”
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His ex-wife and business partner Kim Kiyosaki recently told Vanity Fair that the $1.2 billion figure has been widely misunderstood — and does not represent money the best-selling author personally owes.
“We have a lot of apartment houses with our partners,” Kim told the magazine, putting the portfolio at some 1,500 units.
“So technically, yes, we have all this debt,” she said, adding that the borrowing is attached to real estate and that Kiyosaki’s personal share is small.
Kiyosaki has argued that debt can be a wealth-building tool when used to acquire income-producing assets.
Kiyosaki has argued that debt can be a wealth-building tool when used to acquire income-producing assets.
The enormous debt pile is a product of Kiyosaki’s investment strategy.
As his properties rise in value, he borrows additional money against the increased equity and treats the loan proceeds as tax-free income, according to Vanity Fair.
He also puts individual investments into separate limited liability companies, insulating them from one another if one runs into trouble, the magazine reported.
“If it all comes to hell, you can talk to my attorney,” Robert Kiyosaki told the magazine.
“Firewalls — that’s the way the rich play the game.”
Vanity Fair estimated his portion of the debt could be around $30 million to $60 million if Kiyosaki’s claim that he pulls in roughly $3 million a year is accurate.
Robert Kiyosaki co-authored two books with Donald Trump, including 2006’s “Why We Want You to Be Rich.”
Robert Kiyosaki co-authored two books with Donald Trump, including 2006’s “Why We Want You to Be Rich.”
“He loves to say things that shock,” Kim told the magazine, saying Kiyosaki uses the billion-dollar figure to grab attention before explaining “why investment debt is good.”
David A. Perez, an enrolled agent and founder of Tax Maverick AI who said he uses a similar strategy as a multifamily real-estate investor, called Kiyosaki’s approach “a great strategy” and said carrying large amounts of property-backed debt is “actually very normal.”
Perez said borrowing against a property’s equity generally produces a tax-free loan because the property has not been sold, though the additional borrowing can increase mortgage payments, interest costs and reduce cash flow.
John Poole, founder of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based consultancy JPTD Partners, sounded a more cautionary note.
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“I think there’s good debt and there’s bad debt, and then there’s $1.2 billion of debt, which you better know exactly what in the world you’re doing,” he told The Post.
“Leverage works beautifully on the way up, and if it’s not continuing on that way up, then it’s like a chainsaw financially coming down.”
Poole said borrowing against appreciated assets can make sense in limited circumstances, including as an estate-planning tool, but warned against relying on the strategy indefinitely.
“It doesn’t go on forever. There has to be a payday, and be prepared for that payday, irrespective of the size,” Poole added.
“[Kiyosaki] may call this the ‘Rich Dad debt,’ but for the average investor, it could turn out to be ‘Poor Dad bankruptcy’ really quickly.”
Kiyosaki has built a financial-education empire around “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” which was first self-published in 1997 and has sold more than 44 million copies, according to Vanity Fair.
The book contrasts the lessons Kiyosaki says he learned from his biological father — the “Poor Dad” — with those imparted by the father of his childhood best friend, the purported “Rich Dad.”
Ralph Kiyosaki, Robert’s biological father, was Hawaii’s state superintendent of education and ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1970.
Kiyosaki later identified his “Rich Dad” as Richard Kimi, a Hawaii businessman who owned a chain of hotels that once included the Waikiki Biltmore Hotel.
What do you think? Post a comment.
Kiyosaki has preached investing in cash-producing assets such as real estate while minimizing taxes and distinguishing between debt used to acquire investments and borrowing used to fund expenses.
naptu2: Americans have now discovered that she is lecturing at a university in Toronto and they have flooded the university's social media accounts with demands that she should be sacked for making racist comments.
Her actions can indeed lead to a job loss in that kinda academic setting where character matters a lot.
naptu2: Uju Anya is a professor of applied linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. She is known for engaging in total warfare on social media.
She trended after Queen Elizabeth II died. She wished the Queen and excruciating death and said that the Queen and her family were responsible for raping Africa. This brought a backlash from many people including Jeff Bezos and some people demanded that Carnegie Mellon University should sack her.
She trended again when she condemned Igbo culture as being very toxic. She said that her father was Igbo and her mother was a Trinidadian and that her mother did everything possible to blend into Igbo culture and be accepted, but that she was maltreated by her father's people. This led to a backlash from some Igbo people.
She trended again after she got engaged to her lesbian partner. This led to another war between her and some Nigerians.
She trended when she celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk and she trended again when she celebrated the death of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.
She was celebrating the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death two days ago when someone challenged her that she only celebrates the deaths of white people. She told the person to die so that she can celebrate his death. This led to a massive backlash.
Elon Musk quoted her and pointed out that she is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Then her Twitter account vanished.
Carnegie Mellon University tweeted that she is on voluntary leave and that they don't support her tweets.
The person that she told to die has tweeted that he is consulting his lawyer.
Photo 1) This person was reporting her to Carnegie Mellon University for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death and for other offensive posts. He asked her why she only celebrates the deaths of white people.
Photo 2) Professor Anya replied, "Die first white man, then ask yourself why I am dancing". You can also see her previous posts in which she told people to die.
Photo 3) Elon Musk quoted her and said that she was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
Photo 4) The university's statement about the issue
She's completely exhibited irrational online and offline behaviors over the years.
LegendHero: Former Vice President Atiku’s lobbyist, Karl Von Batten, has deleted his social media post in which he announced that United States President Donald Trump appointed him as a commissioner to a White House presidential commission.
Checks on the verified X account of his firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., where the post was published, show that the post is no longer available.
Von Batten’s firm had earlier announced that President Trump appointed its managing partner as a commissioner, but Sunday Dare, one of President Tinubu’s media aides, downplayed the announcement, saying that the appointment was to the Commission on Presidential Scholars, an education panel administered by the United States Department of Education.
Dare said the commission has no responsibility for American foreign policy, national security, diplomacy, or relations with Nigeria.
Karl Von Batten is a Washington-based lobbyist and managing partner of the firm Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C., which was hired by Atiku to strengthen his reputational standing in the US.
He has also been actively pushing for the release of US law enforcement records concerning President Bola Tinubu’s alleged links to drug trafficking.
The home video films started in 1988 with the Yoruba home video "Soso Meji" produced by Ade Ajiboye on Video Home System [VHS] technology NOT "Okan Soso" which I initially wrote in my original post that you quoted on this thread. I've just done the necessary corrections in that original post.
If you grew up before the 90s you'll know that stage plays were prevalent in the SW and there were films by Herbert Ogunde, Moses Olaiya etc.
Let's say Igbos commercialised it but that also led to piracy which ruined some theatre practitioners like Moses Olaiya.
Now it's more streamlined and only those with real talent excel.
Succinctly stated.
The IG post right BELOW featuring 'Kunle Afolayan's biological father, Ade Afolayan (Ade Love's) high quality 1983 movie Taxi Driver CLEARLY affirms your post.
Legendary Adeyemi Afolayan's (Adelove) Taxi Driver 1 was released in 1983. AdeLove invested heavily in quality pictures. Taxi Driver 1 starred legendary Adebayo Salami "Oga Bello," Jide Kosoko, and many more. Adeyemi Afolayan (Adelove) was one of the early pioneers of the Nollywood film industry.
Nollywood was simply a term for the Nigerian film industry. Nigeria already had a booming film industry in the 70s; Adeyemi Afolayan produced and starred in Ija Ominira in 1979, and Hubert Ogunde released Aiye in 1979. Nigerians have been making high-quality home videos long before Living in Bondage in 1992. 1988's Soso Meji by Ade Ajiboye and Alade Aromire’s Ekun in 1989 were among the first set of direct-to-video projects to be properly executed in Nigeria.
Papa Ajasco, produced by Wale Adenuga, was one of the early blockbusters released in the 80s. The horror film Evil Encounter was released in the 80s by Jimi Odumosu. Nollywood was already on a sweet ride before the 90s. The narrative that the Nigerian film industry started in the 90s is a big insult to legends like Adeyemi Afolayan.
In 1966, Ade Love joined Moses Olaiya's drama troupe; in 1971, he left to establish his own drama group, which went on to stage comedic plays. In 1976, he appeared in Ola Balogun's Ajani Ogun and later produced and starred in Ija Ominira. Adeyemi Afolayan's movie "Kadara" was shown at the ninth Tashkent film festival for African and Asian cinema in the 80s. His films are often in Yoruba, English, and Pidgin.
His legacy lives on through the continued growth and success of Nollywood, a testament to his immense influence and contribution. Mention any Ade Love film you know. Follow @debocfo for more.
Pakute: Ben Kure, a former political adviser to the ex-governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused him of diverting taxpayers’ money to pay bandits during his time in office.
Kure, now Managing Director of the Kaduna State Media Corporation under Governor Uba Sani, made the allegation during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, describing the former governor’s handling of insecurity as questionable.
“Sometimes in December 2016, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, with an air of arrogance, said to the sitting that he had to pay herdsmen so that they would no longer commit mayhem or kill lives.
What was the result? It aggravated insecurity by more than a hundred per cent.
“Mallam Nasir El-Rufai prided himself on using taxpayers’ money to pay bandits and herdsmen. And what was the result? Untold loss of lives.
People were living in fear, they could not even sleep, go to their farms, or earn legitimate money to care for their families and children,” Kure said on Monday.
The former El-Rufai aide contrasted the current approach of President Bola Tinubu’s administration and Governor Uba Sani’s government, which he said had refused to give money to bandits.
According to him, the present strategy focuses on dialogue with traditional rulers, religious leaders and local stakeholders to de-escalate violence.
He said the current government started “appealing to the emotions and making them [Bandits] understand the reality and the value of life. It’s about dialogue.
“The government has been talking to them, traditional leaders, religious fathers and also stakeholders, because they know some of the people that are participating in this heinous crime, so they brought them and reversed their thinking so they saw the need to live in peace so there can be progress and development.”
El-Rufai’s Accusation
El-Rufai, appearing on Sunday Politics, accused both the federal and Kaduna State governments of “empowering bandits” through ransom payments and food supplies under what he mocked as a “kiss-the-bandits” policy.
“What I will not do is to pay bandits, give them a monthly allowance, or send food to them in the name of non-kinetic. It’s nonsense; we’re empowering bandits,” El-Rufai said, adding that the policy was driven nationally by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA). He insisted, “The only repentant bandit is a dead one. Let’s kill them all.”
ONSA debunks Elrufai's claim
But the Federal Government swiftly dismissed his claims. In a statement, ONSA described El-Rufai’s allegation as “baseless,” insisting that no arm of the administration had ever paid or incentivised bandits.
“At no time has the ONSA, or any arm of government under this administration, engaged in ransom payments or inducements to criminals. On the contrary, we have consistently warned Nigerians against paying ransom,” the statement signed by Zakari Mijinyawa read.
Kaduna Government dismisses former Governor
The Kaduna State Government also rebuked the former governor, describing his remarks as “calculated, malicious lies designed to undermine security efforts, incite public anger, and legitimise criminality.”
Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Suleiman Shuaibu, said El- Rufai’s comments were a direct threat to peace in the state, especially following the defeat of his political allies in the August 16 by-elections.
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