saintmm: This is the reason Adeleke swiftly and publicly endorsed Tinubu. It's normal for them and it's also their right. But, nothing will come out of it 1. Precedence, in this Tinubu administration, no governor declared had been upturned by supreme court. 2. It will destroy the last goodwill he has in southwest except those that are eating from same pot with him. 3. It may expose him because any issue they hold onto to upturn Adeleke victory may become a point of attack against him and who say the judges can't go rogue to use it to redeem their destroyed image! 4. The technicalities may expose his strategy for 2027.
So Oyetola and his trainee will be thrown under the bus for their senior man.
Adeleke ride on!!!
Obasanjo was right about Tinubu being a dangerous man who would destroy Nigeria and our democracy.
The irony is how the same man unknowingly helped Tinubu to become president. Do you think that is just because of Baba Iyabo’s hatred for Atiku and Jonathan who are better administrators than him
Scholarforlife: An average Nigerian politician doesn't just get paid for the work done while in office. Rather, he loots the national treasury in the name of getting paid. In the civil service, the most senior officer is on grade level 17 and the pay is fixed. Let the Nigerian constitution be amended to use this payment system for all political office holders and let's see how many of these career politicians will still parade themselves as one.
Who are you expecting to do the work of amending our constitution to what you want
akpumping7720: Now I get it. Anytime I find myself arguing politics with people who hate Tinubu, there is one thing I do observe about them and that was what I highlighted in your comment. People hate Tinubu because he has been relevant in Lagos politics and have a say on who will be the next governor in Lagos State. My brother or sister; see, purge yourself of that mindset. If Tinubu has been relevant in Lagos politics since 1999, just see it as the will of God and not man. Who is Tinubu? Is he God? No he is not, but God almight has made him to be relevant in Lagos politics so we shouldn't because of that hate him.
After all, he isn't relevant in the politics of other 35 states so why the hate? The last time he tried to meddle in the affairs of Edo state politics they told him point blank; 'Edo no be Lagos' and what did he do? He crawled back to his hole. The same thing in Ondo state. And ever since then he has stopped passing his boundary.
Being a party chieftain in APC, Buhari had to give him honour to recommend a certain number of ministers and other portfolios. His fallout with Buhari began in his 2nd tenure when some members of CPC blocs and some northerners ganged up against Tinubu. They tried as much as possible to destroy both men's relationship. And they already had an agreement. The issue continued towards the 2023 election and that was what brought about the famous 'Emi lokan speech' at Abeokuta.
How has 27 years of Tinubu relevance and reform in Lagos impacted the people?
27 years of growing budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion without water supply to all households, and less than 5% schools owned by the government!
What has God to do with the progreThief politician?
Sagacity10: Exactly . They should come to Government College Ibadan and see what the Alumni body is doing with the school. Some University in Nigeria don't have the infrastructure that GCI ibadan have now. All thanks to the Old boys Association. Am a Proud Old boy of GCI.
How much revenue did government have when they ran the school well?
How does that compare with government revenue today, after adjusting for inflation and population growth?
Have you heard of Stockholm Syndrome before, and do you know how it relates to this issue
AdolfHitlerxXx: Tinubu is collaborating with Vietnam too? After working with India to reduce the supporters of OB*******
Don’t mind the Jagaban of Borgu and his followers.
chisomkachy: After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest, the founder and General Overseer of The Turn of Mercy Church, Prophet Adefolusho Aanu Olasele (alias Abbas Ajakaiye) has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs into Nigeria.
Prophet Adefolusho was arrested at his church located in Okun Ajah, Ogombo road, Lekki area of Lagos on Sunday 3rd August 2025 by NDLEA officers who waited for him since morning to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before moving in on him the moment he stepped out of the church premises.
How is this a surprise from a politician who claims to be progressive but steals trillions of Lagos budget yearly instead of employing teachers to make education free for all children?
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
tohyorsih4: mark my word, Peter Obi will win Osun State
Is that because Kwankwaso, the new Utomi is focused on 2031? Or what else is giving you this hyper positive renewed hope against the master strategist
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.
ChatterHouse: I love him Nigeria happiest governor
He should make Osun people happier also, fore example by recruiting more teachers than Makinde has done.
What do you think about this
anonimi: NUT commends Oyo over recruitment of 19,500 teachers
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Oyo State, has commended Governor Seyi Makinde-led government for recruiting 19,500 teachers in five years.
The union, in a statement signed by the NUT Chairman, Oladimeji Raji and the Secretary, Salami Olukayode, noted that the appointment of 5,000 teachers in his first term and 14,500 since the inception of his second term into the state primary and secondary schools was noteworthy.
The union said the ripple effects of the recruitment were that it would address the problems of inadequate manpower in the education sector and promote teaching and learning.
The statement read, “Your disposition towards turning the tide of the education system of Oyo State remains unprecedented and unmatched not only in the annals of recruitment history of our dear state in recent times but also across the entire 36 states of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory.
“Your Excellency Sir, your achievements in the education sector since assumption of office particularly, on the successful recruitment of over 14,000 qualified teaching professionals and about 3,500 non- teaching personnel, aside from an appreciative number of caregivers is a clear cut and a perfect reflection of your results-oriented style of leadership aimed at providing free, qualitative and quantitative education to the amiable citizens of Oyo State. This gesture shall, without doubt, have a significant touch in our classroom and as well enhance educational service delivery to our school children.”
favor914: Bitter Obidient, keep waiting for President Tinubu to come & help u eject yourself from poverty.
Why did he ask for the job of president, if he can't do the basic things he promised such as creating jobs that add value to hit the trillion dollar economy he wants by 2030
TheWebbers: If we all can repeat same during the general election next year, he for make sense.
But fear the North.
Why should Jagaban of Borgu fear his fellow northerners next year for his reelection
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
Stolen: NOTICE, I DID NOT SAY IGBO OR YORUBA OR NIGERIA ORR GHANA, I SAID BLACK BECAUSE THAT IS HOW WE ARE ALL VIEWED BE U AMERICAN AFRICA OR CARRIBEAN.
Bosman17: What breaks my heart is that she was left unattended… after she collapsed! Chinese people are very racist! A first aider might have saved her life!
Don't mind the racist Chinese o jare. They are racist people unlike us who are tribalistic people who use rotation and zoning to share offices and the national cake at local, state and federal levels.
Are there no reports of states not allowing people from other states to work for them
AMBO hasn’t made the call congratulating Adeleke; he wants to go to court.
I don’t know what he wants to challenge in court. Maybe he’s planning to pull a Hope Uzodinma Supreme Court abracadabra
Anything is possible under these criminals of A-looter ProgreThief Conmen, APC who have destroyed whatever little semblance of law & order, prosperity, peace and security handed over to them by PDP 11 years ago.
iwaeda: Wike Boasts Of Helping APC Use Judiciary To Kill Osun LG Funds Case, Warns Party Leaders Against Ingratitude
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has openly boasted that he assisted certain elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in deploying the judiciary to frustrate the Osun State local government allocation lawsuit.
In a video now circulating widely on social media and obtained by SaharaReporters, Wike made the claim while addressing a crowd in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The former Rivers governor accused the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, of benefitting from judicial actions against the Osun State Government without knowing those who did the work behind the scenes.
The suit in question led to the withholding of local government funds in Osun State, a development widely seen as targeting the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as opposition in the state.
Wike, who spoke angrily, suggested that the court action supporting the APC’s position against the Osun government did not happen by chance, boasting that powerful political forces worked quietly to ensure the outcome.
“Don’t take our support for Mr President for granted,” Wike warned, in an apparent message to APC leaders defending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. “You have to be careful about the statements you make. You have to be very careful.”
He accused Basiru of political ingratitude, claiming the APC was enjoying in Osun State without understanding who engineered their advantage.
“Today, you are enjoying in Osun. You don’t know those who did the work,” Wike said. “You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State.”
favor914: Bitter Investor, who be the person wey chop your money for street 2 .
Is it not obvious that your master strategist of fake promises and empty announcements is the one who has chopped the money of Nigerian investors, by worsening APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege since 2015?
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: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
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.
aswani: As you yourself are aware, Obi rode a tide in 2023 whereby a lot of things aligned for him. In fact, if not that he is a pretty useless politician and to be fair, was marshalled by Prof Utomi on behalf of President Tinubu, he should have done much better. Again, his inability to think medium term and typical Nigerian gra gra mentality meant he couldn't build on what he had in 2023. Till today, despite 2023, he can't count on a bye election winner that he threw his support behind. In my opinion, despite not bring his supporter, President Tinubu has shown what patience and an understanding of the Nigerian dynamics are. Atiku just throws money at it, Peter Obi, that one just opens his mouth to repeatedly show he will never understand it. The election fight next year is an unfair one, we need a stronger opposition in this country. We suffered from a PDP being able to do as they please, we have from APC too though admittedly, President Tinubu has some good reforms going. The stick being swung by you and those "interesting" Obidients is a frail one. You all need to get together and fo a strong opposition instead of the white flag you are waving.
Are you talking about president aBAT understanding and promoting the Nigerian dynamics of Stockholm syndrome suffering by 200 million mumus of tribalistic zoning and rotation to share the national cake of corruption
Day169: The FGN must be able to get the civil defence or some other guards to watch over national infrastructure like these before those "iron condemn" miscreants pilfer all the iron reinforcements!
Would there be more, or would there be less iron condemn miscreants if Tinubu made good on his promise to create 50 million jobs, by increasing production for exports and reducing imports, on his way to trillion dollar economy?
Majesty2: The APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has revealed how he will drive the economy of the country, strengthen the Naira and making the country "import less" while "exporting more".
Would we have all these agbero miscreants if the master strategist gave a good example, as Lagos landlord, of using the people's money to employ enough teachers and other workers to make schools free for all children and water available to all houses?
The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.
500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.
But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.
The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”
While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.
He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
PDPdestroyer: Obidients will be very sad with this development
What of balablu bulaba BATistas who have been made jobless, extreme poverty akara sellers because Remi Tinubu's husband has no clue how to create 50 million jobs promised three years ago
Nigeria’s ‘Biggest Economic Threat’ Is Unemployment, But Data to Guide Policy Missing for 14 Months
Nigeria’s top economic risk for the 2026 economic year is unemployment but the country has not published any official labour statistics to measure its rate since November 2024, FIJ has found.
On Wednesday, the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report identified lack of economic opportunity and unemployment as Nigeria’s leading threat for the 2026 economic year.
The report also identified inadequate public services, economic downturn, inequality, and crime as the next four threats to economic stability in 2026.
Unemployment is serious enough for international observers but the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has not released Nigeria’s Labour Force statistics, however controversial, since the second quarter of 2024.
SILENCE SINCE METHODOLOGY REDESIGN The NBS has been in the crossfire before for publishing Labour Force Data late in 2023 and 2024. In 2024, the bureau attributed the delay to an overhaul of its survey methodology.
At the time, NBS said it wanted to align Nigeria’s labour statistics with international best practices and ensure data quality and sustainability.
But the resulting data caused chaos. According to the NFLS published at that time (q1, 2024), only about 4.3% of Nigerians were unemployed. The data introduced new types of labour categorisation in the report.
Per the new method, anyone who works even minimal hours in a week is considered “employed”. The reliability of official figures was questioned by labour unions, business groups and even economists.
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), for instance, described the reported employment statistics as unrealistic. Chris Onyeka, the NLC’s National Assistant General Secretary, called the report a “voodoo document” and a “fabrication designed to mislead the public”.
Similarly, Gabriel Idahosa, President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), said, “The technical improvement in the employment rate is more of a way that employment is now calculated; but the reality is that the economy is not looking like an economy where unemployment is significantly reducing.”
Since then, the NBS has not made any attempt to publish labour data.
onatisi: you still dont understand tinubu , that man doesnt care , AS LONG AS YOU ARE NOT IN HIS PARTY YOU ARE HIS ENEMY , THAT IS THE MENTALITY OF POLITICIANS . now even accord members in osun are confused , how can you say you wil support the president when the president [party canddate is contesting against you at the governorship level? just wait and see , they will rig him out and nothing will happen . tinubu only practices and understand gangsterism politics
Now that the master strategist has failed because the people were resolute about Adeleke light continuing to shine over APC darkness, what next?
Why was Tinubu not as antagonistic towards Soludo’s reelection in Anambra State?
Why did he not learn from Obasanjo’s failure to capture Lagos State in 2003?
Above all, Adeleke has to do better in his second term than he did in his first term, just like Makinde in neighbouring Oyo State.
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