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.
press9jatv: mobilizer niii. I told you here that Adeleke's defeat is imminent. He's a goner. Alot of them are on security radar. They are just clueless thief looting our treasury. 2026 is different from 2022. Adeleke is a goner
Was Tinubu on the run for using bullion vans to mobilise votes with money cluelessly looted from our treasury that should have employed workers to make government services and utilities available to everyone
NaijaRoyalty: …Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money
However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”
Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.
He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.
Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.
ArcSEMPECJ: lols , cry us a river, the hole you dug for Peter Obi in ADC later swallowed all of you , one thing with a good man is that God does not stop him on the way, he leads him even in the valley of the shadows of death and gives him victory....
Go and ask Mr Amaechi how the election in ADC was conducted and how he was angered by the whole process....
He who is held far above by God, is above the intelligence and smartness of his oppositions...
Amaechi that is Atiku’s running mate just like Obi was in 2019, five years after Obiano chased him out of APGA?
Was that not how Joe Biden became Obama’s VP after their primaries and Hillary Clinton became his Secretary of State/ Foreign Affairs minister?
Why is naive Obi falling repeatedly for the hole dug for him by the master strategist of Nigeria politics? He fell in 2023 through Utomi and he is falling now through Kwankwaso.
chiefolododo: Among the 3 of them , PETER OBI IS THE BEST IF WE ARE HONEST.
ELECTION IN NIGERIA IS NOT CREDIBLE THOUGH
Is this why the naive politician that was made a destitute by Obiano, is the best
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.
aduboy: Anambra distributes 177 vehicles to traditional rulers
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, on Monday in Awka, distributed one SUV each to the traditional rulers of the 177 communities in the state.
Obi handed over one of the vehicles’ key to the state Chairman of the Traditional Rulers’ Council, Igwe Alfred Achebe, Obi of Onitsha.
He said that the gesture was aimed at helping them run and build better communities, adding that the vehicles would also help the traditional rulers to function effectively.
“If you have better communities, you will have a better Anambra, Anambra today is changing for better and I want this sustained,” the governor said.
“In doing that, the state government and the local government will do what it can to support the building of a better Anambra.”
Achebe said that he was overjoyed because the governor cared about the well-being and welfare of the traditional rulers.
“It is completely unprecedented in Anambra and probably elsewhere in Nigeria,” he said.
“It is a mighty gesture from the governor and for the government of the state to make a distinct impact on the well-being of the traditional rulers in the state.”
According to him, it was one of the several measures the present administration in the state had taken to improve the wellbeing of the traditional rulers.
“We pray that God will give us a successor that will continue from where Obi has left and lift Anambra to the next level.”
BATified2023: that 30k that u think it's big money that someone can survive on it per month no reach how much I dey use buy fuel in a week
All these poor boys self that see 30k as big money, many of u are so drown in poverty that 30k seems huge to u to d extent u believe it's okay for someone to collect it for one full month
Are you using a special APC card for BATified people to get petrol for less than N185 as Tinubu promised when he was fighting to grab power and run with it into Aso Rock
blamingthedevil: Number States Owing Salaries Under Different Administrations from 1999 to Date:
Olusegun Obasanjo (1999–2007): 15 states. Umar Musa Yar'Adua (2007–2010): 5 states. Goodluck Jonathan (2010–2015): 23 states. Muhammadu Buhari (2015–2023): 27 states. Bola Ahmed Tinubu (2023–Present): 0 states.
Who made Buhari president in 2015, four years after calling him expired?
Why is Tinubu owing salaries to federal employees despite having 53% of the federation account for himself alone
AngelicBeing: Hahaha 😂, all your submissions above is partly the reason that virtually all infrastructures in Nigeria is at comtose, but you forgot to include CORRUPTION AND EGUNJE which is the bane of the problems in Nigeria,
secondly all the grants from FIFA , who is swallowing the money oooooooo, because some of those grants Plus the useless yearly budget from sports ministry is enough to address the issue, Kill corruption and you have a working country
Do you think we will have less or we will have more corruption, if private investors run football clubs and other businesses instead of government?
Was there more corruption when Tony Okoroji and co used PMAN unsuccessfully to promote Nigerian music through government patronage, than we have now with private businessmen running the show with little or no government involvement?
Eraddray: Private bodies should invest in this things...build stadium...and collect better money for hosting thing team to use their stadium...collect better maintenance fee join make e no turn rubbish like government own stadium ... Atleast it will creat job many ppl
That's why oyinbo leagues are so much better. They are run as private, for profit businesses.
Do you think enough of us will ever understand that in Nigeria to make it happen in football like it has happened with Nollywood and Afrobeat music- exponential, international growth without government ownership/control?
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.
Samuels90: This is why it is good to have standard facilities all around the country. Now both teams will put much pressure on Remo infrastructural facilities.
How can there be any pressure on the facilities of the relegated club
Remo will make good money from the government owned clubs that failed to upgrade their stadiums. Datsall!!!
dominique: Shooting stars too will not be using Lekan Salami stadium for their CAF confederation cup games, they'll also be using Remo stadium in ikenne. It's very sad that almost all our local league stadiums are below CAF standards.
Majority of their fans won't have the privilege to travel and watch them play continental games live. My prayer is that NPFL clubs get financially successful enough to be able to upgrade their stadium and sign quality players.
Is it not strange that newborn baby Remo Stars has a CAF certified stadium in small Ikenne while Rangers and Shooting don't have in big cities of Enugu and Ibadan respectively.
Do you think that is because Remo Stars is a private, for profit club unlike the dinosaurs run by governments?
Is it a stark reminder of how deregulation and privatisation policies laid the foundation for PDP's 16 years of prosperity, peace and security with cheap petrol, cheap dollars, low unemployment, less debt burden, less tax burden etc
Bluntemperor: But the Dancing Governor- should know by Now that the Dancing Game is Over. •For Governance- is more A Serious Business than gyrating about,as if All the Sectors of the Economy in the State has been given Upliftment - for this 4- years! •While he did well in the Payments of Gratuity and Pension -to the Retirees in Osun State,but Adeleke Should have done better - where the Aregbe failed- due to interparty -activities Animosities and very mean methods of ruling a -Cosmopolitan State like Osun . -Aregbesola proposal of A Single Uniform - for All Osun Students - exposed him as a fanatic religious bigot , -Nor his OPON- IMO' FALLACY was equally a ruse -just to deceive the Youths and the Masses of Osun State. •If APC Now have a Better hand - may they Never have Party -Infighting- that causes them to lose the State to Adeleke then. Once beating twice Shy - should be the guidance principle of APC in Osun by now, including the accommodations of Omisore - afteall,they are All Old Politicians,so they should All Calm Down and Move Osun State and People - to the Central Govt- for More Inclusive Governance of Tinubu Federal Government. •They Must take Care of the Retirees In the Osun State - because the Money for the Payments of their- Gratuity and Pension- Was there in the State Treasury,but Aregbesola and Oyetola - just refused to bulge and Pay these Retirees then . OR where did Adeleke got the Money for the Payments - just 3- Months into the Govt House ⁉️ Our Politicians Can be too mean and Difficult in Ruling and when in Power,you know! I wish the BEST Party to WIN Osun State! Good luck to the BEST Party in the Coming Elections 🥳🎉.
Did Aregbesola hand over to Adeleke in 2022? Abi it was Aregbe's CoS who did? The brainbox of APC's devilish Hafusa policy.
Do you know why Oyetola that is now serving as minister is not running but wants to use his lackey to create a Rivers scenario in Osun state
Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Tuesday said there is no basis for comparison between President Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice- President Atiku Abubakar as far as the 2019 presidential election is concerned.
Buhari emerged as the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend while Atiku also defeated 11 other aspirants to become the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Sagay, who is currently in the United States, said he didn’t perceive Atiku as a threat to President Buhari because as a former Vice- President, Atiku has no records to run with except making promises, which he may not fulfil if elected president.
On the contrary, he said President Buhari’s record of integrity, his management of the economy, tackling challenges of insecurity especially the Boko Haram menace and his social investment programme, which has uplifted many poor Nigerians will get him re-elected by appreciative Nigerians.
“No. I don’t see Atiku as a threat to President Buhari. We are talking of records here. Buhari has a record extending from 1984. He has integrity, not only that, he has sustained the fight against corruption. It is unprecedented.
“We also have the social investment programme, which monies recovered from corrupt people are being applied for the improvement of the lives of the most vulnerable members of the public. The economy is going up; oil subsidy fraud has been eliminated.
“The Boko Haram militants have been seriously decimated, I can go on and on. Talking of records, former Vice-President Atiku has nothing to run on except the words of his mouth. So, there is no basis for comparison between the two”.
On the promise by Atiku that he will restructure Nigeria within six months if elected president, Sagay said while that is a good campaign point, restructuring will not solve all Nigeria’s problems.
He, however, said the APC also has plans for restructuring the country, which necessitated the setting up of the committee on restructuring chaired by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State.
“Yes, he said he will restructure Nigeria within six months if elected president. To me, that is a good campaign point. It is good but there is no evidence that Buhari will not ascent to any form of restructuring even though he is not so positive about it”.
“If you read the report of the party’s committee on restructuring, the one headed by El-Rufai, it is clear and very strong. So, the APC is committed to restructuring too and so, it is not an advantage for Atiku".
“Restructuring will not solve all our problems. What of due process, what of integrity, what of honesty, what of all the things that ensures that the state resources are applied and the resources of the state are not divided by a few people. So, all those things are important” he said.
On the role of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo in determining who the president in the forthcoming presidential election, Sagay said Nigerians should not attach any importance to the ex-president who he described as irrelevant.
“ I don’t think Obasanjo is irrelevant. He doesn’t have more influence than myself. So, I believe Nigerians should just forget about him” he said.
So what became of this APC basket mouth and his fake promises allegations?
How can a man of integrity say this several years after All Promises Cancelled, APC told us that petrol should never go above N70, otherwise the government is forcing us to pay them subsidy
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.
damoobaba: Thats not how to want the people's will to prevail, the people suffered. Many people lost their lives because of lack of access to CASH & I know what I personally went through during that period. BUHARI IS EVIL and nature has a way of dealing with EVIL PEOPLE, WHERE IS HE TODAY?
Do you think that Buhari is more evil than the man who invited terrorists to destroy Nigeria before going to Kaduna to invite him to make Jonathan a one term president
anonimi: What group of politicians is more wicked than A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC
iwaeda: Planning to rig as usual, they should not forget, mosquito can crash a plane, just as keke can cause extensive damage to trailer.
Tinubu must be planning to do worse than Buhari did in 2018 to deny Osun the benefit of Adeleke's better governance earlier. Who will stop him on this perilous path? How will the aspiring dictator with his remote control, be stopped
deantimes: Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s President, has reportedly said his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) won last year’s governorship election in Osun with the help of remote control.
Mr President is quoted as making the above statement on Saturday when he visited traditional rulers in the state seeking their endorsement for his re-election.
The governorship election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in September was won by the APC although the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took early lead.
A rerun election which was later conducted in the areas believed to be the stronghold of Senator Iyiola Omisore, the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) saw the ruling party leading the opposition party.
Mr Omisore, POLITICS TIMES recalls, had entered into alliance with the APC to deliver his stronghold to the party. This was after he met a delegation of the PDP seeking similar help from him.
“I know how much trouble we had in the last election here,” Buhari was quoted by TheGuardian as saying while addressing the traditional rulers at the banquet hall of Osun State Government House.
“I know by remote control through so many sources how we managed to maintain the party (APC) in power in this state,” he added.
zoedew: About time we have INEC TV dedicated to public enlightenment about elections and real-time election reporting during elections. That will checkmate the Chukwumerijes, Ofonagoros and the Verdict '83 Criminal gangs that spread fake news about the election. It makes for more independence for INEC.
NTA is not enough for our country that leads the world in extreme poverty and out of school children?
Do you expect increased tax burden on akara sellers to pay for your INEC tv station, since Tinubu has failed to create his 50 million jobs despite NOI praising his reforms
press9jatv: More pictures below 👇🏻. Good one from the Inec body.
So INEC is the one that will decide for Osun people, meaning that the votes won't count?
Why is Tinubu so desperate to be a dictator worse than his double agent boss Abacha?
Why is he hellbent on repeating NPN errors that made it easy for Buhari to have the only successful coup against democratic institutions at the local, state and federal levels 43 years ago?
What will make Tinubu and Wike stop their self assured destruction journey in Osun
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.”
TopBanter: My friend, get on with your day. You are not a poster I can ever take seriously because I know of your unobjective hatred of PBAT. Your brief is to oppose every action or praise for him.
How do you say the truth about someone for whom you have unobjective hatred How is that even possible?
magoo10: the good thing is oshiomole now knows that Peter Obi is his father when it comes to politics After tinubu the likes of oshiomole will be useless.
Does Obiano also know that Obi is his godfather in politics
What of Obi and Dickson? Who is the father of the other in politics?
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
Most tertiary institutions in the country have hiked their fees by over 150 %, putting serious strains on the finances of parents and guardians who also have to contend with the poor state of the economy which has reduced purchasing power and savings.
Checks by Vanguard Learning in public universities across the country show that the increment in obligatory fees, which started late last year is continuing, as a new session starts in some schools this January.
Only on January 6, this year, for instance, the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Ondo State came out with a proposal to hike fees by over 100%.
TopBanter: Scholarship how? The model is not sustainable. You must think Nigeria has a bottomless pit of money.
Of the 195 nations of the world far richer and more stable than Nigeria, only 10 to 15 offer free or subsidized University education out of 195 and they are mainly very wealthy nations. Fact check me on that.
You guys should try and evolve your minds and stop talking out of blanket hatred of certain leaders. NELFUND is a fantastic scheme.
Students will begin paying back when they graduate and gain employment. The money is recycled and used for other incoming student.
Nigeria is not a communist nation. I can't even understand how anyone would suggest scholarship for University education in this day and age for every student.
Is APC a communist party since they promised free education to all children but have failed woefully to achieve anything near that?
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.
Were Obasanjo and Atiku communists when they established UBEC to provide matching funds to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children
PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities.
Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration.
However, when PREMIUM TIMES late in 2022 toured the three senatorial districts of the state, our reporter found facilities in many public schools still in deplorable conditions.
The renovation project was executed with a N10.2 billion fund jointly contributed, equally, by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the state government.
UBEC released its share of the fund to the state government in 2019 to address infrastructural decay and inadequate facilities in 236 public schools across the state.
Sonyboom: As Obasanjo n Ebele no loot yet 20 years they can not complete Lagos Ibadan express
How many pictures of the Lagos-Ibadan road are you using to pay the subsidy FORCED on you by the massive corruption in APC's oil sector? Abi did you ever buy petrol at less than N70 since 2015?
By the way, how did you get 20 years for 1999 to 2015?
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.
franchasng: Be looting Nigeria dry in the name of doing roads, yeye man
How else do you want the ologogoro to procure judgement for his master strategist boss of Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC
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.”
My secondary school is better funded now it has been returned to the Baptist Mission and old students are more willing to make it better than when the state occupied it.
These people need to go lobby their state governors!
Vote for Obi!
So what do you expect the governors to do with the taxes raised from you and on your behalf, along with the 27% federation account shared among the 36 governors, without forgetting the loans that will be repaid?
How do we get out of being the leader in out of school children if governments fail to educate children
dchamp234: I'm happy this is coming from his tribes man, it would have been an issue if it was an igbo man. The earlier we decide to remove this government from power in 2027 is the better for all Nigerians.
Why do you think that other tribesmen are not as honest about their own leaders looters
Oracleee: I wanted buying a car of recent so I decided travelling to park myself in Cotonou. Their currency is performing way better, even the white Man I meant who I was to buy from made it obvious gone are the day Nigeria customers are reverenced as financially, we're deficit now and purchase power as been severely dealt with or reduced to void.
It's really a trying time to be a Nigerian anyone who argues opposite is either a sycophant and without exposure.
In one of his sober moments, the master strategist admitted as much about how he has failed in every area of governance!
anonimi: May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu
According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”
On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.
Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.
Is this not how he has used balablu bulaba propaganda lies to hold Lagosians in bondage for 27 years of forever increasing tax burden to grow budget 100 times without employing well paid civil servants to make water available and make education free to all children.
How much tax burden did jakande pile on Lagosians before he achieved in four years what Tinubu, Jakande , Ambode and Sanwo Olu have failed to achieve since 1999? The irony of all these is how Buhari jailed Jakande in 1984 for corruption but handed over to Tinubu in 2023.
Splashme: The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.
Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.
The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.
Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”
The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.
Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.
He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
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