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Winnerrrr:
Salary just dropped yesterday and i don’t have more than 40K in my bank account right now after settling debts.

Even my boss dey cut corners for office to cater for his needs, based on my observations the only people that are doing well in this country are:

1) Politicians and their cronies.
2) People making money online and earning foreign currencies.

everyone else is intertwined into one or more financial problems.

"I know of States that have received over 500 billion Naira from the Federal Government as palliative, but I have never received anything.

I think the reason I don't get it is because I'm not in APC.

-Dauda Lawal, Zamfara State Governor pic.twitter.com/QvfR8olibA

— Arewa Source (@Arewa_Source) February 17, 2026

DoTheNeedful:
That video is doctored with AI. I have personally checked it. I don't know what you Atiku supporters want to gain with your dishonest propaganda.

This is the original video with the actual sound from the event.

The audio circulating online has been altered and replaced with a different sound to create a false impression pic.twitter.com/HqyMkSDqK2

— Muktar Garba (@real_mukhtyy) September 2, 2026

LegendHero:
Solidarity Walk Held Today in Gusau, Zamfara State, in Support of President Tinubu’s Re-election

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macphilip:
I keep saying it anywhere that President Obasanjo is the best president to have governed this country since 1999, closely followed by President Umaru Yar'Adua

DaddyJapan:
Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said Nigeria’s net foreign exchange reserves climbed from $3.99 billion at the end of 2023 to $34.80 billion at the close of 2025, a jump of about 772 per cent.
Source: https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/nigerias-net-reserves-surge-772-to-dollar348bn-as-fx-reforms-boost-buffers/w2gxc0c

Melezenawii:
EXTERNAL RESERVES BY PRESIDENT



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DoTheNeedful:
Ikemefeuna Okeke is a liar and a con man.

He collected $1.2 million for lobbying, which is a highly professional role in America. Rather than doing his job, all he does is to smear the person he is lobbying against.

Lobbyists in the US are rarely seen and heard. They operate smoothly in the background and get results for their clients. Ikemefuna has resorted to social media bullying and campaign against Tinubu while hiding under his wife's surname (Von Batten) and tagging Trump, DOJ, JD Vance, CNN, Aljazeera on every post he makes about Tinubu on X. This is very strange. Even the court case he bandies online against Tinubu was filed three years ago by Aaron Greenspan.

Atiku has been scammed badly.

szczescie:
It is clear that you haven’t travelled at all, it is a shame that you are excusing such behavior, I traveled throughout Canada the entire country alone I didn’t need any local tour guide I didn’t need to pay any tout, I have friends, people I know Nigerians and Canadians and Indians and many other nationals both neighbors and colleagues at work who travelled to Mexico, USA, all over Europe and even parts of Africa and they didn’t need to pay beggars, touts, area boys money for being there.

You people have so normalized extortion to the point that you cannot imagine life without it, many many years ago when I was still in Nigeria, way before Tinubu’s tenure I used to reside in Abuja I told my brother who had lived most of his life in Lagos and Port harcourt that there is no area boys in Abuja, no park dues, nobody chases commercial and private cars to collect any sort of fees or levies, nobody does the area boys things he said it’s a lie is Abuja not Nigeria there are area boys. Until he came to Abuja himself he didn’t believe it.


It’s the same thing going on here, you haven’t been to USA and other countries so I don’t expect you to believe that there are no agberos abroad. No Road union, what you don’t know is bigger than you, right now you cannot see beyond your horizon.

This is why I advocate for people to travel, even if it is Cotonou abeg travel go to Ghana, Togo, Benin, Rwanda go and see how other human beings are living.

chieveboy:
Well, whatever you might have said, you missed one salient reality: Ascribing negativity to the term "agbero, Area boy, etc" are direct indictments as to who they really are. It is the same phenomenon in Nigerians referring to any detergent as "OMO". Get it?

chieveboy:
You went for poetry instead of being pragmatic.

Regardless of the original meaning, that people use such behavior to associate them to is a direct indictment


Further, that other cities in the world have such places does not automatically mean one should even use that as an example to downplay or window-dress thuggery, extortion and indiscipline especially online.

AlphaTaikun:
I just watched this short video. First off, this Chinese travel YouTuber and content creator (and those being excessively critical and trolling here) MUST know here and now that other foreign travel YouTubers [who have visited and are currently visiting Lagos and Nigeria], have also bought and eaten street foods such as Boli (roasted plantains) and peanuts or grilled fish, Akara, Asun, Suya (grilled meat), and visited bukas to eat Iyan (pounded yam), Amala, Smokey Party Jollof rice and more WITHOUT having these kinds of issues! You don't just go out to visit any location with a video cam recorder without a local tour guide being present with you like in most countries of the world to prevent unintended consequences.

There are specific locations and neighborhoods right in the United States (especially on the highly dangerous "South Sides" of major American cities such as in Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, etc), Brazil, China [In China, some women have been kidnapped and married off as brides by crime cartels to never-married, older Chinese men for hefty sums of money], Columbia, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the UK, France, Hong Kong, etc, you don't just visit without local guidance otherwise you would be mugged and lose your wallets and other valuables as tourists! it's ALL about knowing what locations to visit as there are bad spots in every country. The authorities ONLY have to ensure that they work with law-enforcement agencies on minimizing and/or eradicating lazy migrant street gangs or street urchins who are often times on hard drugs coming into Lagos State and other Nigerian States. Period.



P.S. The guy in that short video talking to the Chinese is NOT an "Agbero" but was only harassing the Chinese [being a "JJC"] and fortunately NEVER collected ANY money from him. Now, the Yoruba word "Agbero" means "to carry passengers" (derived from the FULL sentence "Awon ti won Gbe Ero" with "Gbe" meaning "to Carry" and "Ero" meaning "Passengers" respectively). The word Agbero refers to the young men who have traditionally worked for several decades right from the 1960s strictly with the legitimate national transportation unions such as RTEAN or NURTW hence the name "Agbero" meaning "to carry passengers" in the Yoruba language.

Many non-speakers of Yoruba language (especially the Ibos on this NL thread and elsewhere) have annoyingly and embarrassingly been bastardizing the Yoruba language for years now and WRONGLY refering to "street urchins or street gangs" [known as "Omo ita" in the Yoruba language] as "Agbero" which is WRONG! Many of the Agberos work as responsible drivers as well with families of their own based off of past investigations. The accurate Yoruba etymology, definition and usage of the word "Agbero" is different from the totally WRONG definition Ibos are giving to the highly IRRESPONSIBLE street urchins or street gangs harrasing and extracting money from innocent people especially in the commercial city of Onitsha and/or Awka (before they can cross even a wooden plank placed on a drainage system or gutter in some places). There's a long thread posted here on NL and even on Twitter (now called X) a few years ago that discussed fully about these Onitsha street gangs or street urchins extorting people.

Cc: kingthreat, chieveboy, jaxxy, dolahad, eraddray, keemsleek

SonOfWords:
Look at how you're busy explaining nonsense.

MrEar:
Chinese travel creator Xiao Johnny shares shocking encounter with men allegedly demanding money while trying street food at a Nigerian market

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Chinese travel creator Xiao Johnny shares shocking encounter with men allegedly demanding money while trying street food at a Nigerian market pic.twitter.com/aeKJ76N7by

— YabaLeftOnline (@yabaleftonline) September 2, 2026

fergie001:
https://guardian.ng/politics/2027-tinubu-leads-early-forecast-with-20-states-atiku-9-obi-8/

Ojotu1:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/08/30/opay-dismisses-viral-shutdown-rumour-warns-against-fake-publication/

Parachoko:
Access to Forex and Petrol is now very easy

Ibadanfarmroad:
oga, Kano were I lived, two abokis sell suya near each othe, one sells ram meat while the other sell beef.

Ram suya is far more delicious and expensive than beef. Dem no be mate o

altteemy:
Experience might be different, so I won't disprove that others have said here about dead animals bring used for suya.

Let's be realistic, how many dead animals lying around would be needed to facilitate continous daily supply of suya. Abeg, think am na.

Now, I will add in my suya training to explain why it looks cheaper. I will use balango type of suya (the one usually cut from various pieces) as an example as I believe that's the one the OP is comparing with. (Tsere is the one on sticks)


1. The Hausa guy gets meat cheaper.
While the yoruba meat seller comes, buys his piece from the abbatoir man, the aboki chills till there is no one around and buys a bigger chunk for smaller than was sold to the meat seller. It is an arranged system that only those that know, know. In the chain of things, buying wholesale also gets you cheaper costs on the long run.

2. The slicing.
While it is not sliced as thin as kilishi, the suya (balango) gets diced out into wider stripes that makes the meat viewed by the eyes into about 2 to 3 times the unsliced one.

Adding the combo of cheaper prices, the processed suya would always be more than your bought meat.

So biko, eat your suya with peace of mind.

SixSeven:
A lot of speculations, here and there


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7665364736657100054


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7502704939714481430


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7630151458398244103

Penguin2:
“He said the proposed government would be anchored on four principles: competence, integrity, national inclusion and fair representation.”

The question now is between Atiku and Obi, who falls into this bracket?



A coalition of six opposition parties has proposed the establishment of a ‘government of national competence’ that would operate for a single four-year transition term ahead of the 2027 general election.

The proposal was made on Monday at a summit of opposition political parties organised by G100 in Abuja.

Political parties represented at the summit were the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Allied Peoples Movement (APM), Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) and Social Democratic Party (SDP).

Salihu Lukman, former vice-chairman (north-west) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who presented the proposal at the summit, said the proposed government would be anchored on four principles: competence, integrity, national inclusion and fair representation.

The coalition also proposed an enforceable transition charter to ensure that participating parties abide by the agreement.

Under the proposed framework, the coalition would establish a central leadership committee, a publicity and communication committee and a legal committee.

The coalition would also create working groups on democratic renewal, the single-term transition charter, national reforms, opposition unity and the selection of a common presidential candidate.

Lukman said the initiative is not seeking the dissolution of any political party or asking any candidate to withdraw from the 2027 race.

He said the immediate objective is to establish a framework for cooperation before discussions on leadership and candidates.

According to Lukman, G100 was facilitating the process without endorsing any political party or candidate.

He said the goal was to provide Nigerians with a credible alternative government in the 2027 elections.


https://www.thecable.ng/adc-pdp-ndc-propose-four-year-government-of-national-competence-ahead-of-2027/

God1000:
United States President Donald Trump has said on social media that oil from a recently struck deal with Venezuela will be ⁠used to replenish the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an oil stockpile that the country keeps for emergencies and that has been drawn down sharply in ⁠recent years to respond to global supply disruptions and high fuel prices.

The US president wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns, that the reserve had been made “virtually” empty, while blaming former US President Joe Biden.


Trump said in the post that the “topping out” process will ‌begin shortly, describing the Venezuelan oil as a “Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States”.


Caracas has been under pressure to act in line with Washington’s demands since January, after US special forces abducted then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela’s Supreme Court handed leadership over to his vice president, Rodriguez.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/trump-says-us-will-refill-its-petroleum-reserves-using-venezuelan-oil

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