mactoni91: This is good news. Kwankwaso is really doing his homework up North, and Obi is doing his own in the South. A better Nigeria is POssible! Obi would lock down 90% of the SE, 70% of the SS, 40–50% of the SW, and 40–50% of the NC. Kwankwaso is helping strengthen the numbers in the North. Atiku may lock 50–60% across the North, leaving Kwankwaso and Bola to battle for the remaining votes. My question is, where will Bola get his block votes? Your guess is as good as mine.
This 2031 focused Kwankwaso? Abi another one?
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi. QED!!!
As a VP to Peter Obi, he will lose and I will lose because No northerner will ever vote an ibo man as president — Kwankwaso 😳🔥👇 pic.twitter.com/YRBzWRbzvs
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
aswani: Prof Utomi, yes that President Tinubu's Pat Utomi, is in NDC with him still making sure that he is doing enough to ensure that Peter Obí is not a threat to President Tinubu.
To use a footballing parlance, he has close marked Peter Obí out of making important decisions that might threaten President Tinubu in the elections.
Peter Obi should have stayed in ADC and accepted the VP slot. He is now in a much smaller party and his Obidients are being taken for granted in NDC. Prof Utomi did his job well in 2023 and has now exceeded that already.
slivertongue: A good product can't be hidden. PO everywhere you go
What is good about this product, who is just as wicked and anti people, as the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics that Obi’s rigged SE votes helped to grab power from Buhari?
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
Bwilliam: Nigeria was amongst the top 3 emerging economies before the Aka enwe of APC took over and erased 7 years of growth and advancement.
What Tinubu and his A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC party can’t destroy does not exist.
Don’t they deserve to be stoned like in shariah law
thisweekng: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.” Private sector to drive the economy
SlavaUkraini: Nigeria that Jagaban is planning to bury under the rubble of rising debt....
Dey play
The hypocrite is doing a great job of voodoo economics, which he accused Jonathan of, when he begged Buhari out of retirement to make him president, after their wicked party invited terrorists to destroy our country.
anonimi: March 8, 2013 Nigeria operating voodoo economy – Tinubu
FORMER Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, dissected Nigeria’s economy and declared that the country was operating a voodoo economic policy that is pauperising the citizenry and urged urgent economic surgery to save the polity.
For instance, Tinubu wondered why the Federal Government is maintaining a foreign reserve of $46 billion with one or two per cent interest and shouldering a load of $42 billion domestic debt, which it services with 16 per cent interest.
“This is voodoo economy,” he said, adding, “they are operating it because they don’t know what to do. It is choking the private sector.
“We must in this country do away with the idea of ‘it is better save the money and spend the people.’ Rather I will say we should adopt the policy of ‘it is better to save the people and spend the fund.’
How will these fake news help Tinubu win reelection in the face of real hardship for Nigerians, due to his clueless balablu bulaba mismanagement of the country with wicked corruption
Nigerians, rich and poor feel the incompetence, and fear the consequences of worsening insecurity, inflation, unemployment, extreme poverty etc.
Nigeria loses 47% of dollar millionaires, retains 4th position in Africa
Nigeria has lost nearly half of its dollar millionaires over the past decade, with the population of high-net-worth individuals falling by 47 per cent between 2015 and 2025, according to the 2025 Africa Wealth Report by Henley & Partners in collaboration with New World Wealth.
Despite the sharp erosion in private wealth, Nigeria retained its position as Africa’s fourth-largest hub for dollar millionaires, with 7,200 millionaires, 20 centi-millionaires (individuals with investable wealth of at least $100 million) and three billionaires, trailing only South Africa, Egypt and Morocco.
The report showed that South Africa remained the continent’s wealthiest country by number of dollar millionaires, with 41,100 millionaires, 112 centi-millionaires and eight billionaires. Egypt followed with 14,800 millionaires, 49 centi-millionaires and seven billionaires.
anonimi: Nigeria remains fourth largest economy in Africa despite rebasing
July 21, 2025
Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that expanded the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the economy expanded to N372.8 trillion ($243 billion) in 2024, down from N314.02 trillion in the prior year as more sectors in the informal economy were considered in its calculations.
The statistics bureau adopted 2019 as its base year away from 2010 that’s previously reported.
The rebasing exercise covers the period from 2019 to 2023 and reflects changes in the economy’s structure, sectoral contributions, and data sources.
Despite the overhaul, Nigeria fails to reclaim its erstwhile status as the largest economy in Africa.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Africa remains the continent’s biggest economy with a GDP of $410.34 billion for a country with little over a quarter of Nigeria’s population.
Following the Southern African nation is Egypt with a GDP of $347 billion while Algeria maintains its third position having $268.9 billion as the size of its economy.
Although Nigeria’s economy grew 30 percent above the projected $188 billion estimate by the IMF this year, the rebasing was poised to place the economy as the biggest in Africa.
CaseSensitive: Were their universities not functioning without foreign students in the past? Yes they did function before, but not under today’s funding model. The issue isn’t that UK universities inherently need foreign students, it’s that policy has made them increasingly dependent on those fees. These universities usually relies on government fundings but under the current funding model, tuition fees from international students relieves the burden on government and now with dwindling appetite from international students, that means government must keep those universities afloat. Makes sense?
Don't they have foreign lecturers and other workers in their universities I think you miss the point here. They do have foreign lecturers. Half of my lecturers and professors in my university days are Iranians, Nigerians, Greek etc. This is about reducing net migration, not about sending away non-white, non-British people away from the UK.
Negative funding impact on universities from less foreign students will also impact foreign university lecturers and other workers.
Sheuns: Most of the animals the went into extinction were hunted by those that told you to now preserve animals. Hunting is not bad, it keeps the ecosystem in checks. What’s bad is over hunting.
Where is the database here for hunting, to determine if any particular specie is over-hunted
What well paid civil servants are keeping the database reliable?
YourNextLevel: When Africa kills animals, is wrong but when the west kills, is for a reason. And these data boys are talking trash Good job my people
Do westerners still hunt wild animals like we do, instead of conserving them to earn steady income from tourists while protecting the delicate ecosystem balance
Putinofrussia: Continue to deceive yourself with this line.... PDP gave us cheap petrol, cheap dollars, prosperity and high employment productivity to be the biggest African economy. Can you have prosperity and still borrow money to pay workers? By 2014,Nigeria was on its knees because the govt couldn't meet its responsibilities again
Tinubu is borrowing more than PDP did, but he can't pay workers and is owing pensioners and contractors. What is he doing to all the loans plus subsidy savings apart from stealing
omoredia: Slavery is still ongoing lets not deceive ourselves. U will use your money to pay for slavery buy yourself now
Slavery is indeed taking place, as we actively/passively encourage the fleecing of our country by politicians and others, while those of us who can't steal do japa.
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
CaseSensitive: That's why UK Universities are facing financial crises. They want to curb migration and applying relative levers to that effect but still can't keep Universities afloat without the billions of £ from foreign students. You can't have your "Kate and Edith".... You can't have your cake and eat it. How does that saying go?
Were their universities not functioning without foreign students in the past? Don't they have foreign lecturers and other workers in their universities
Xscape1993: If not that we don't have good leaders....
How can Stockholm syndrome tribalistic people who use rotation and zoning to share the national cake of corruption, ever have good leaders? How is that even possible
Sheuns: We the young ones of Africa need to balls up and face these older destroyers that have made life terrible for decades and still counting. We can’t keep running away for better life when we should be at the throats of these thieves who call themselves leaders. Haven’t we had enough? I have.
What has age got to do with competence and being a wicked rogue? Does this wicked, anti-people politician not pretend to be a young person
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
NewHe: That's what the likes of Obi,Atiku,Ameachi and haters of Tinubu doesn't want to be echoed! Yesterday it was former AFDB Chief Adeshina today's own will increase their BP!
Will it increase their BP more than for these extreme poverty, jobless and hungry people that agbaaya Jide Kosoko should not be angry
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
TonyeBarcanista: you are right bro, most political parties today are the modern version of the feudal class. Just old feudal lords wearing agbada and party logos. But that is precisely why the CDA exists. My argument has never been that political parties are not feudal. My argument is that every society, no matter how feudal, always has a third group, people who are neither feudal lords nor their conquered subjects. They are small in number, often unknown, but they are enlightened and independent in thought. The CDA is an organization of that third group. It is not made up of the usual feudal elite, but of enlightened citizens who have come together under a shared idea. Our task is more difficult. The feudal class already has money, structure and fame. We have to do the hard work, organize ourselves, go to the people, enlighten them, and earn their support to win elections. That is the difference between inheriting power and earning it.
Why should your objective be to win elections, rather than to have your values and principles are imbibed by the people, such that anyone who is in public office must act in line with those values and principles of governance?
How many of European enlightenment era philosophers ended up as LGA councillors and chairmen, state lawmakers and governors, senators, representatives and presidents (or their equivalent)? What percentage of them ended up in public office to serve the people with the commonwealth temporarily entrusted to them for the employment of well paid civil servants to provide basic services and utilitie to all?
The three men should join Oshiomole's APC and see if they won't end up as president and CoS plus other positions.
Is it any wonder that corruption is so bad under Tinubu, with federal workers unpaid, pensioners and contractors owed money, while roads are worse than when PDP gave us cheap petrol, cheap dollars, prosperity and high employment productivity to be the biggest African economy.
Truly, looks can be deceptive, just as ariwo ko ni music.
TRUTHaDDICTED: Mention one good that have ever emanated from the so called National Assembly? Forget, they're all same crew of criminal congregants and can not do anything against themselves.
Akpabio told us last time that the Senate can not converge plenary on such matters without him, and that he does not have the power to take decision against the president. That should tell you enough.
Why would people who are not themselves criminals, allow criminals to emerge from among them as senators and representatives?
TonyeBarcanista: Government is run by political elites who neither know their left from right. All they know is political and financial power to control and dominate the system Political parties, that is truly interested in governance, must take up the responsibility of sensitization and education of the Citizens.
Is this how Europe evolved from fuedalism to democracy, through enlightenment carried out by the feudal/ruling class
Or was the enlightenment carried out by ordinary people who were philosophers rather than politicians?
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
FG promises payment of outstanding N35,000 wage award by August 15
August 5, 2026
The PUNCH recalls that President Bola Tinubu approved a N35,000 monthly provisional wage award for federal government workers in October 2023 as a temporary measure to cushion the impact of the removal of petrol subsidy and rising cost of living.
The wage award, which was agreed with organised labour to avert a nationwide strike, was initially approved for six months, pending the conclusion of negotiations on a new national minimum wage.
Although payments began in late 2023, implementation became irregular, leaving several months outstanding.
TheChameleon: INEC should PLEASE plead with foreign governments to stop jailing Obidients. How will Peter Obi win when 90% of them have citizenship in jails ?
Kingsmeal: The campaign spokesman said the candidate incidentally shared an address with notorious cocaine dealers in the 1990s.
Festus Keyamo, chief spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has said Bola Tinubu, the party’s flag bearer, only shared a “block of flats” with notorious cocaine dealers in Chicago, pushing back after the release of court documents that suggested Mr Tinubu’s ties to illicit drug business and money laundering in the United States.
“What happened was that Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people…(sic). I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he happened to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account,” Mr Keyamo said on Wednesday on Channels Television programme to exonerate the former Lagos governor from the fresh controversies that had been trailing his involvement in drug peddling.
Peoples Gazette on Tuesday published certified copies of the 1993 case as recently released by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The documents confirmed that the U.S. government had in July 1993 sought forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics Mr Tinubu was accused of laundering. The matter was resolved in a compromise between the Tinubus and the U.S. authorities, with the Tinubus being asked to keep the money in the Heritage Bank account while the $460,000 in the Citibank account was forfeited.
A federal judge subsequently dismissed the matter with prejudice on September 21, 1993, which effectively foreclosed the matter from being litigated again by all parties. It, however, remained unclear whether or not Nigerian authorities could still bring charges against Mr Tinubu over the same case in Nigerian courts.
The former Lagos governor has come under intense public scrutiny over his opaque past, health status and allegations of corruption. He has not personally commented on the latest case, but his campaign surrogates have emphasised that the matter was insignificant and would not be a factor in the upcoming elections.
Stanna2025: These clueless NLC should be clamouring for fuel price to return to N86 per litre and improving security for farmers to boost production, but there dull brains think increase in salary will do the magic when they already know that Satan is in charge of aso rock, if he gives you with right hand he takes 20 times back with his left
Why has Tinubu failed to crash petrol price below N185 promised despite paying MORE subsidies illegally under a new name than PDP did? Can he just do that first, before we ask him to go down to N86 that it was when minimum wage was 18k, but All Promises Cancelled, APC leaders looters said that price was not good enough.
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
Image123: Some folks are just unrealistic and not thinking much. How many of them are paying their staff 300k, not to mention 500k minimum? How many people will get the minimum wage, how many are getting the current minimum wage? We're over 240million Nigerians, don't bobo all of us with few of you's politics and selfishness.
What is the realistic outcome of thinking too much by brilliant you?
How many people will get the announced 70k palliative? How many people are receiving the 35k wage award announced in October 2023 for 6 months, but yet to be paid fully
Jakarta: 500k minimum wage? pure water go be #150 for 1 by then oh!! Inflation go still make that 500k, get #100k purchasing power.
Why is labour not pushing for wage GAP harmonisation with political office holders?
Harmonisation with the GAP between public servants and civil servants in the 1st republic that was scattered by 5 undisciplined Majors in January 1966?
Increasing minimum wage without CAPPING total package of political office holders is a vicious cycle of hyperinflation and reduced productivity.
How is your attachment an answer to the questions asked
anonimi: Where is the credible source for your claim of highest oil boom between 1999-2015?
If Tinubu and Buhari are borrowing more despite removing subsidy TWICE in 2016 and 2023 but owing workers, owing pensioners and even contractors with worse roads, then what are they doing with all the money apart from stealing it?
Politics › Re: Supporters Storm Kano Streets For Peter Obi–Kwankwaso "Mini Rally" by anonimi: 6:36pm On Oct 29
