kunle4toyeyaho: ...even when the burden of sending money to your younger one in school has been taken from you through APC's NELFUND and your parents are not being owed salaries/ pensions anymore? Bro,you are a very insincere Nigerian.
What percentage of students impacted by increased school fees due to hyperinflation, can NELFUND budget cater for
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%.
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.
Patnome: A northerner made a comment against Tinubu insulting him and calling him names but a coward like you will not be able to fire back at the northerner because you guys are cowards
Na who do una this thing Fear fear people
How dare you say that Jagaban of Borgu and his followers are cowards for deescalating attacks from northerners?
Na English I dey talk o. Where did you stay in London during your visit? Did the house have pipe borne water, abi na from inside shitty borehole you dey drink for London
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.’
Will this decision by the PDP-licensed private refinery help Tinubu to finally crash petrol price below N185 it was in january 2023 when the master strategist promised Nigerians?
Parachoko: if toh say you don visit a country like England, you no go dey talk like this
Did you stay in one of APC's Pandora villas in London during your visit to enjoy pipe borne water in their homes
thewinning101: PANDORA PAPERS: Buhari visited Tinubu in corruption-tainted London villa acquired by Oyetola
Governor Oyetola, a relative of Mr Tinubu, may have sabotaged his own country by buying the exotic property as Nigeria made to seize it.
ByNicholas IbekweandTaiwo-Hassan Adebayo October 7, 2021 in Headline Stories, Pandora Papers Reading Time: 8 mins read
It was a meeting of two of Nigeria’s most influential politicians in London – President Muhammadu Buhari was visiting political kingmaker and senior member of his ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
In July, the presidency announced that Mr Buhari was heading to London for an education summit. The office also added that the president would also see his doctors for “medical check-up”.
Coincidentally, Mr Tinubu, who had travelled to London earlier, was also receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment in the British capital. So, a perfect setting for both men to meet was created.
He described Mr Tinubu as “an unhealthy man,” who frequently travelled to France for medical treatment. He urged Mr Tinubu to devote attention to his health after completing four-year term. Mr Lawal stated, “I have said it before, even his health conditions are publicly known. He is not a healthy man now. Nigerians are not fooled. He is always in France. [quote][quote author=TruthHurts1 post=140153801]https://gazettengr.com/tinubu-smokes-lots-of-silk-cigarettes-cant-do-without-them-says-babachir-lawal/
"Bola is not even somebody that likes to enjoy food... He will wake up and eat banana and groundnut. Sometimes in the morning, they bring ogi and moimoi... The only thing I know he likes very much is cigarette - Silk. He smokes. He likes that a lot..."
This Buhari grass cutting contractor is not serious. How can he say that the master strategist who alone built modern Lagos is always in France for medical attention instead of the numerous world class hospitals in Lagos?
Why then was Tinubu advising Nigerian doctors to return home instead of directing all of them to France
bobonla: I know of someone who became the president of a country without even contesting. If u doubt me ask Goodluck Jonathan. No dream is to small. But him seeing himself as the winner of 2027 election mmmmh, all I can say is he's thinking Big.
The kind of big thinking dream Tunde Bakare had after APC used him to play politics in 2012 fuel deregulation protests, which Tinubu manipulated in making Jonathan a one term president
Omooba77: A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests.
Fayemi said this in his keynote address delivered at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday celebration of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy and Fellow, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja.
The programme was attended by Jonathan, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, among others.
The PUNCH reports that on January 1, 2012, President Goodluck announced the removal of fuel subsidy and adjusted the pump price of petrol from N65 per litre to N141.
The decision sparked mass protests, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria’ across major cities of the country.
The price was later re-adjusted to N97, after more than a week of protests.
Petrol price was later reduced to N87 in 2015.
Jonathan faced serious backlash for the fuel price adjustment, especially from leaders of the All Progressives Congress, who were then in different opposition parties, including the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressives Congress, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and All Progressive Grand Alliance.
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.
Was Buhari not a former military dictator that Tinubu recycled as civilian president? What of Obasanjo?
Anyway, according to A-looter Propaganda Conmen. APC leaders the insecurity stopped longest time ago.
Nigeria Boko Haram: Militants 'technically defeated' - Buhari Published 24 December 2015
Nigeria has "technically won the war" against Islamist Boko Haram militants, President Muhammadu Buhari says.
He told the BBC that the militant group could no longer mount "conventional attacks" against security forces or population centres.
It had been reduced to fighting with improvised explosives devices (IED) and remained a force only in its heartland of Borno state, he said.
Boko Haram has been described as one of the world's deadliest terror groups.
Critics of the government argue that it has exaggerated the scale of its success against the militants, and that each time the army claims to have wiped out Boko Haram, the militants have quietly rebuilt.
Nnamdd1: The Nigerian Army has handed over the flag of Boko Haram that was recovered from “camp zero” in Sambisa forest to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Major General Lucky Irabor, Theatre commander of Operation Lafiya Dole handed over the flag to Buhari at exactly 10:30 pm on Friday, December 30th, at this year’s regimental dinner organised by the presidential brigade of guards.
Speaking at Friday’s dinner, Irabor said troops arrested 1,240 suspected Boko Haram members during a mop-up operation inside Sambisa.
In his response, Buhari, who recounted how he was nearly killed even before he collected his first salary in the army stated that keeping Nigeria united was paramount.
“I believe you are here because you want to be here and you cannot complain. We will do our best to build the national institutions in the country,” he said.
“There are 250 ethnic groups, so keeping Nigeria one is a task that must be done. So even for a personal reason, you must make sure this country stays one and remain strong.”
On his part, Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai assured Nigerians that they will continue their onslaught in the north-east.
Light,we no see, Security issues, even him(tinibu) dey fear Educational sector, nothing to write about Salary,e no even regular and na peanuts,
He's even confused
Oga abeg make you sharperly relocate oh. Have you not heard that APC achieved adequate power supply to Nigerians as promised 11 years ago, with Fashola bragging it would happen six months after Jonathan is out of office
pendy79: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.
Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.
The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.
While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.
He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.
The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.
ratcock: Peter Obi really means well for Tinubu Imagine how he is looking after Tinubu’s wellbeing Soon some confused followers will say he is always attacking Tinubu without proffering any solutions
Don't mind those ones who can't see the solutions Obi has offered in the past.
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.”
lamentor78: May we not be too poor to be looking at ceiling when money matter is being discussed by our mates.....or become deaf .....lol
If Buhari was too poor, then how did he run three presidential election with SCON challenges with expensive SAN lawyers?
Abacha's PTF associate is simply a very smart crook who knows how to pretend as a saint in Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.
socialmediaman: The 2018 Rating by Transparency International placed Nigeria at 148th position out of 180 countries. Nigeria was improving over the years under the previous government, until Buhari got elected as president, things became worse.
There is a difference between fact and fiction. We need to face facts, Buhari is worse than GEJ when it comes to fighting corruption, at least that’s what the facts prove.
Most of us believed there was corruption under Goodluck Jonathan’s Government. I agree with those who did, there was corruption, but not as bad as it is today under Mohammadu Buhari.
In 2012, Nigeria was placed at 139th position, In 2014, Nigeria gained 3 steps and was placed at 136th position. Under Buhari, Nigeria has lost many positions down to 148th.
There’s no further proof needed that corruption has worsened under Buhari’s government compared to previous years.
9jatriot: I pray for God to also bless me the way he has blessed Tinubu.
How can anyone explain to me how a person's enemy will initiate a press conference to embarrass you but end up singing your praises in that same interview without knowing it?
This is very similar to how God turned Balaam's curse into a blessing for Israel.
What kind of God blesses a man who imported terrorists to destroy Nigeria, before asking Buhari to be president
otipoju: And the ingrate of a man said on his swearing in " I belong to nobody and i belong to everybody" and proceeded to appoint members of his ethnic group to all vital positions and sideline the very man who helped him win.
How can there be a greater ingrate than the man who steals money that should employ teachers for the free education of Lagos children, so he can fund those who gave him Jagaban of Borgu title?
Abi you know if Tinubu employed anywhere near 19,500 teachers in his eight years as progressive governor of Lagos state? Even the 27 years of himself, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu?
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.”
gigabyte13: NDC.....? 😅😅😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂 😅😅🤣😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😅 NDC na conglomerate not a political party. Party wey dey make decisions from one man's parlour........ Na so e supposed be....? If NDC see 3 million votes, dem try. Very very unserious association.
You may be right about Dickson's sole proprietorship NDC, which was how Tinubu ran ACN when he fielded Ribadu in 2011 and called Buhari expired.
Abdul9025: the visit will be like, I will be joining APC, what is on the table for me ...money or appointment
Probably money from the taxes of akara sellers. The ones who APC made jobless extreme poverty paupers because Tinubu is clueless about creating jobs promised.
"I know of States that have received over 500 billion Naira from the Federal Government as palliative, but I have never received anything.
I think the reason I don't get it is because I'm not in APC.
press9jatv: The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Oluwatoyin Babalola, made the clarification during a town hall meeting organised by the Civil Society Network on Election Integrity in Osogbo on Sunday.
Babalola explained that the commission works directly with the national leadership of the NURTW on election logistics rather than state chapters, noting that the arrangement is guided by an existing Memorandum of Understanding between both parties.
According to her, “INEC has maintained communication with representatives of the union’s national leadership and has not received any information suggesting the existence of factions within the organisation.
“For the transportation of our materials and personnel, we rely on the NURTW and NARTO. The national leadership has an MOU with the Commission, and we have been communicating with a representative of the national leadership. We’re not aware of any factionalisation.”
Would that be the legal national leadership of Baruwa or the illegitimate one of MC Oluomo supported by lawless Tinubu
WATCH: Despite Court Order Affirming Him As Authentic NURTW Chairman, Police Arrest Baruwa, Shoot Supporter After Storming Abuja Secretariat To Takeover Union From MC Oluomo pic.twitter.com/NJROyjWAPr
pendy79: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.
Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.
The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.
While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.
He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.
The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.
Gotocourt: Sell Nigeria and share the the proceeds.
What is Nigeria without its people?
If Nigeria is sold, don't you realise that you will be sold as well, like we did for millions over 400 years into slavery with Arabs and oyinbos until the oyinbos changed their mind and abolished the trade?
Do you think that Tinubu chose his fake name deliberately since he obviously is not Iyaloja Mogaji's son?
anonimi: The often cited biography titled Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker, authored by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan, paints her views regarding slave trading.
On one occasion, during her final sojourn in Abeokuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before Ogundipe Alatise over the matter, she reportedly explained: 'I have a large house-hold and I must feed them well. I need money to do that, that's why'.
— Oladipo. Yemitan, 'Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker'
Another section of Yemitan's Tinubu biography, referred to as the Amadie-Ojo Affair, captures a slave trading deal gone sour in 1853 (notably after the 1852 Treaty abolishing slavery in Lagos) wherein Tinubu tells another slave trader (Domingo Martinez) that "she would rather drown the slaves [20 in number] than sell them at a discount".
kenn4rill: When they are using heavy taxes to frustrate the factories, lack of constant electricity they by making them to spend heavily on Diesel and fuel, if not that Dangote is a very wealthy man they would have frustrated him out of business.
Tinubu and his APC mafia actually tried to frustrate the PDP licensed private refinery to favour their Malta blending plants.
Why do you think APC leaders looters are so wicked and evil?
yemre: It's a case of kettle calling the pot black. That his stewardship ended 19 years ago doesn't exonerate him from the allegations against him. However, I love criticism so much, and that's why I love the way Obi and Atiku are giving it to this government left, right and center.
Criticizing them will make them want to impress us by doing the right thing. So, it's the citizens that are gaining.
Who is the pot and who is the kettle between Atiku and Tinubu
Basic123: God Bless you. I started following Tinubu in 2011
I have followed him through all his obstacles.Nil obstacle has ever stopped him!
So why was he not Buhari’s vice president in 2015, even though he made the expired soldier president?
Why All Progressives Congress Rejected Tinubu As Vice-President In 2015 – Voice Of Nigeria Director, Okechukwu
The Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress wanted to avoid a Muslim/Muslim ticket and had to drop a former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, from contesting as a running mate with President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 Presidential election.
Okechukwu stated that the APC leadership decided to choose Professor Yemi Osinbajo to run alongside with Buhari in 2015 to lay to rest the Muslim/Muslim controversy.
Politics › Re: Osun Election: Uzodimma Chairs APC’s 276-Member Campaign Council by anonimi: 4:27pm On Jul 27
