TopBanter: As usual no intellectual integrity or uprightness. After I punctured your garbage about "excellent" GEJ and lack of capacity you irrelevantly mentioned Wale Edun. Without prevarication or running around the houses, tell the entire forum here and now whether you believe Nigeria can become developed without critical reforms. After that, tell us how many of such critical reforms, if one even, "excellent" GEJ produced and how many Tinubu has actually implemented to global praises from some of the finest economists on Earth. Just come here talking nonsense daily out of blind hatred of PBAT. You know more than the lady below or you have risen to her status to be zo vehemently condemning of PBAt while her kind and even Okonjo Iweala etal praise him daily.
If Wale Edun is irrelevant, what of his boss? Irrelevant also?
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.
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.
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.
UkoAnnang: South East South-south boys killed as landmines hit army vehicle in Borno
Our president is only looking for cows 🐄 as usual in his tribalistic turn by turn fight to grab power to loot the country rather than govern it for the safety of lives and the security of properties.
Where is El Rufai to help him the balablu bulaba olodo out of his miserable cluelessness, like he did in London 2023?
Willy2025: I still don't know why the army is still using light-skinned vehicles to patrol in the war zone like the NE. The army commanders should invest heavily in MRAPs to avoid these avoidable deaths of personnel and increase warfront viability.
The reason is simple enough- Tinubu prefers to get more luxury for himself than to make adequate and appropriate equipment available to the soldiers.
The master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics is not just incompetent and corrupt, he is also a wicked expert in Stalinist Stockholm syndrome suffering on the masses.
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
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.
TopBanter: What "excellent record of governance"? Hatred of Tinubu will always make you utter senseless garbage. You are not an economist talk less of one world class like Soludo, along with literally thousands globally, who have cited the precise reforms Nigeria needs to become a developed nation Tinubu is implemented yet GEJ touched not a single one. Nada. I just don't understand Nigerians and how hate for others damage their commonsense and capacity to think. If not, how can a normal and objective person claim Jonathan has an "excellent record of governance" when it is obvious he was too weak to introduce even one of the many reforms required to make us even like South Africa talk less of Canada, UK etal. You guys are something else. I've lived in a develop nation most of my life and it is crystal clear to me we aren't getting anywhere near non of them, in terms of development, under any President who is not a brave and resolute reformer as Tinubu is and as Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore was. Hatred of Tinubu should not make you say dumb things . You have the Singapore model to research if you want to know how Nigeria must go from a basket case nation, as Singapore was before Yew, to a developed nation as Singapore is today.
Wale Edun is also not an economist abi? Even the statistics on Tinubu and APC all round failure confirms what objective economists say.
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.
anonimi: Nigeria remains fourth largest economy in Africa despite rebasing
July 21, 2025
Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that expanded the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the economy expanded to N372.8 trillion ($243 billion) in 2024, down from N314.02 trillion in the prior year as more sectors in the informal economy were considered in its calculations.
The statistics bureau adopted 2019 as its base year away from 2010 that’s previously reported.
The rebasing exercise covers the period from 2019 to 2023 and reflects changes in the economy’s structure, sectoral contributions, and data sources.
Despite the overhaul, Nigeria fails to reclaim its erstwhile status as the largest economy in Africa.
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), South Africa remains the continent’s biggest economy with a GDP of $410.34 billion for a country with little over a quarter of Nigeria’s population.
Following the Southern African nation is Egypt with a GDP of $347 billion while Algeria maintains its third position having $268.9 billion as the size of its economy.
Although Nigeria’s economy grew 30 percent above the projected $188 billion estimate by the IMF this year, the rebasing was poised to place the economy as the biggest in Africa.
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.
dominique: Maybe it's on top their heads that shooting stars will get their first away points. With the way they're going down, they might discover crude oil
I love that expression of going down and discovering crude oil.
Namaster: GATHER these people and JAIL them! This one is DELIBERATELY attempting to MISLEAD people. Companies CURRENTLY pay 30% Company Incomes Tax. The 25% in the NTA2025 is a potential REDUCTION in tax rate for companies. So if anything, companies will pass that SAVINGS on tax to their Shareholders. Very EVIL attempt to manipulate GULLIBLE people.
So why did the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics say that he achieved higher revenue targets in August if he is collecting less revenue from everyone?
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.
TopBanter: This Mauritanian nuisance and bigot should shut up. They all know it was the born-to-rule hegemonists and Northern supremacists around Buhari who did not want Tinubu in power because they knew he would be impossible to control or boss around. We are seeing the results today. No subsidy removal and certainly no floating of Naira, against the bureau de change lifeblood of the North yet hugely detrimental to Nigeria, would have happened under any Southern President bar Tinubu. No tax reforms either and no regional commissions etc. This is one of the reason I can never support Obi with no structure, no powerful allies or loyalists. Those cannot just appear overnight and any Southern president lacking them will be aeten alive by the North as the did to GEJ but can't try with Tinubu other than bark at Baba-Ahmed and co do. We are not fools. The core North should go to hell. Reform and come into modernity or join Niger Republic and your Sahel Brothers in nationhood. Sick and tired of these backwards people always trying to blackmail the South and retain us in the unproductive lives they love when the South deserves to be like Singapore whereas Gumi and co are still holding brief for bandits and terrorists who deserve to e wiped out in any serious nation on Earth. Perhaps because I have live most of my life outside Nigeria, I can never understand how Nigerians, as if scared, allow the arrogance of Northerners who are the main problem of Nigeria, contributing 87% to the number of most poverty-stricken Nigerian alive, yet always demanding to lead and castigating the likes of OBJ GEJ and now Tinubu. Nonsense.
What moral authority does a Guinean Jagaban with a name different from his Mogaji mother, have over other alleged foreigners? A man without primary nor secondary school education.
manmade: All I know is that 4+4 is still equal to 8 years, if former president buhari could do 8 years without any interruptions inspite of all his bad.ecomomy policies then I see no reason that president Tinubu that's even making efforts to put back Nigeria on the right track shouldn't complete his 8 years.
If Tinubu made Jonathan a one term president, despite his excellent record of governance, then karma is coming for the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics next year.
thisweekng: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.” Private sector to drive the economy
rossipki: Oh please SHUT UP. Tinubu is by far the Most Competent LEADER in Nigerian history. Subsidy is GONE. STOP DWELLING IN THE PAST FAKE LIFE OF FUEL SUBSIDY. This country cannot develop while subsidising its biggest source of income.
Subsidy is not gone.
The master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics is still paying, and even paying more than those who gave us cheap petrol and better life of high employment productivity, prosperity etc to make us the biggest economy in Africa before 2015.
If Tinubu is not the most wicked person, why would he fight for power, grab and run with it only to fail in doing what he promised? Why did he fail to crash petrol prices below N185?
Cyberterror: Shows the political strength of Jagaban to have defeated the cabal of a sitting president and become President himself. 2027 election is already won.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR till 2031.
Any idea why the 90 year old fossil without primary nor secondary school education, has zero governance strength
rossipki: The same Buhari that threatened in Hausa language that "If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015.... the dog and the baboon would be soaked in blood."? That same Buhari is now saint? Chai....this country...
Where did you read that he is a saint?
The assessment is that he is better by far than the 90 year old incompetent rogue who succeeded him.
Do you see the difference?
Anyway, Obasanjo and even Ribadu knew that the Lagos lootocracy master planner is the worst thing in Nigeria.
5 mind-boggling revelations from Obasanjo’s ‘My Watch’
5. Tinubu was one of the most corrupt, of the 36 governors
Obasanjo never got along too well with former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu, and unsurprisingly, Tinubu got a mention in the former’s book.
Obasanjo revealed that then EFCC boss, Nuhu Ribadu tried to investigate almost all the state governors during his tenure but that of the 28 confirmed to be manifestly corrupt or tainted one way or the other, Tinubu’s case was one of the worst.
Lagos — ABIA State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and his Lagos State counterpart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would not escape justice but would be made to face the full wrath of the law following their recent indictment for alleged corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Chairman of the commission Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who made the vow yesterday said the duo must account for their stewardship and may be thrown out of office.
faceland: Buhari is the greatest leadership failure in Nigeria history... It would take 30 go just undo the damage that man did to Nigeria. The terrorism he encouraged before entering Aso Rock is already on it second decade.
May the temperature increase wherever part of hell he is in right now. Amen.
How can Buhari be the greatest failure, when we have the master strategist in a-looter propaganda politics as his successor?
The man who begged Buhari out of retirement to make Jonathan a one term president in 2015, which was four years after calling the kachalla soldier expired.
Tinubu’s begging trip to Kaduna was after their party invited terrorists to destroy our country.
Basic123: I still dont know what is wrong in "ITS MY TURN".
Any politician contesting for election and doesn't believe it is his turn has no business contesting
If people support a candidate simply because of his turn in our tribalistic politics of zoning and rotation to share the national cake of corruption at local, state and federal levels both in the legislative and executive branches, then how can we ever have a prosperous country with law abiding citizens enjoying government services and public utilities?
How can we ever get these basic things, instead of doing japa to oyinbo places that hardly tolerate our presence
Kalulu44: In other words he's about to govern only the elites who sponsored his election
In other words, middle class people and the masses should also invest in the different aspects of the democratic process, including voter engagement and advocacy for better use of resources to employ well paid civil servants to make government services and public utilities available to all.
Kingsmeal: The campaign spokesman said the candidate incidentally shared an address with notorious cocaine dealers in the 1990s.
Festus Keyamo, chief spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has said Bola Tinubu, the party’s flag bearer, only shared a “block of flats” with notorious cocaine dealers in Chicago, pushing back after the release of court documents that suggested Mr Tinubu’s ties to illicit drug business and money laundering in the United States.
“What happened was that Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people…(sic). I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he happened to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account,” Mr Keyamo said on Wednesday on Channels Television programme to exonerate the former Lagos governor from the fresh controversies that had been trailing his involvement in drug peddling.
Peoples Gazette on Tuesday published certified copies of the 1993 case as recently released by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The documents confirmed that the U.S. government had in July 1993 sought forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics Mr Tinubu was accused of laundering. The matter was resolved in a compromise between the Tinubus and the U.S. authorities, with the Tinubus being asked to keep the money in the Heritage Bank account while the $460,000 in the Citibank account was forfeited.
A federal judge subsequently dismissed the matter with prejudice on September 21, 1993, which effectively foreclosed the matter from being litigated again by all parties. It, however, remained unclear whether or not Nigerian authorities could still bring charges against Mr Tinubu over the same case in Nigerian courts.
The former Lagos governor has come under intense public scrutiny over his opaque past, health status and allegations of corruption. He has not personally commented on the latest case, but his campaign surrogates have emphasised that the matter was insignificant and would not be a factor in the upcoming elections.
Judolisco: See as points look very identical... Home team dey always win or draw... And the reason is that... How can a team travel by road from Abia state to ogun state to play football... U go don tired sef before that time....
Apart from tiredness due to road trips, most of the clubs are government owned, rather than private sector owned for profit making consistently.
As such, there is no great difference among them in terms of quality and competitiveness.
dominique: Matchday 9 results Shooting Stars 3 - 1 Ranchers Bees Doma United 1 - 1 Kun Khalifat Kwara United 1 - 1 Abia Warriors Enyimba 0 - 0 Warri Wolves Inter Lagos 0 - 2 Nasarawa United Kano Pillars 1 - 0 Katsina United Niger Tornadoes 2 - 1 Ikorodu City 🟥Plateau United 2 - 3 Sporting Lagos
*The match between Rivers United and Barau FC got cancelled for undisclosed reasons and will be played today. I My two teams are neck deep in relegation ooo😭. Enyimba can still find a way to climb out of the zone but you see that inter Lagos, otilo! .
Since Inter Lagos is donating wins home and away games, should they change their club name to DONATUS
I hope they remain in their rotten form until we play them again in Lagos, so we can win away at their expense.
Rayjay45: More of the same nonsense I have witnessed as a Lagosian since 1999. Whoever go break Tinuppo's bondage on that state go need more than international backing o. Who knows what they're hiding anyway because the desperation to hold on to that grip no be sere o. The capture of that concrete jungle by the man is so so surreal. O lagbara gan ni o. But as all empires, this one too go fall yakata someday for true democracy to emerge. E n le eyin ara Eko o. Olorun a kuku gba yin lowo APC
Unfortunately, tẹwọnde George is too unserious to organise formidable opposition to even win LAHA assembly and LGA elections, so that the people can pressure Tinubu and his successor lackeys into being real progressive politicians like Jakande was.
The irony is that Buhari locked up the UPN progressive governor in 1984 but handed over to the worst rogue in 2023, eight years after making him president.
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.
Rayjay45: Orisirisi. We are not mates for this Lagos chest beating o. Lemme tell you this:
Although an indigene of Oyo Aro mi sa legbe legbe , I was born and raised in Lagos and if not that I am in the diaspora now, I'f still be there occasionally visiting friends and family.
My family live in a house we built in Lagos. My grannies, uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces all reside there till this very day.
So don't tell me nonsense, ore. I am more Lagosian than many ot you data boys.
Can the man who has a name different from the Mogaji mother say that, since he has no primary nor secondary school education
flokii: I hope this Hamzat man knows what he is doing.. his service is to Lagosians first before any individual interest. Lagos State is not for wicked monopolists to pocket, Yorubas must thrive in Lagos which is their ancestral land.
How can he be of service to Lagosians first if they contribute nothing to his campaign, like these billionaires?
Do you know what it means to have a STAKE in something, so that you become one of the stakeholders in the project and process?
What percentage of Lagos’ estimated 20 million population vote, not to talk about donating money to parties and politicians’ campaigns?
Surely, only thieves want to reap what they sow not.
The shameless guy had no qualms following Utomi to the same communist LP labourers camp in 2023, to unwittingly help Tinubu grab power from Buhari to destroy our country.
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.
Parachoko: Go and ask Atiku why he was claiming 2015 is the turn of the North Or you should ask Obi why he was claiming 2027 is the turn of the south After they both give you a reply, then I will also give you a reply
You have not shown where Atiku and Obi claimed what you allege.
Meanwhile, below is where Tinubu claimed it was the turn of Yorubas in 2023, even though he used kachalla Ribadu to claim the turn of the north in 2011 and kachalla Buhari to also claim the turn of the north in 2015 before reinforcing the failure in 2019.
psalmsjob: When we say petrol Subsidy is fighting back at Tinubu for stopping them they think it's politics but you can see the gang up to prevent him from getting a second term as they can't kidnap his family members instead they kidnap the people to create "insecurity", inflate cost of goods to create "hardship" and sponsor a campaign called "Tinubu Must Go".
They do all these to get to "Return Petrol Subsidy" but if Nigerians fail to realise their plan and vote massively for their future by voting for Tinubu for 2nd term then God in His love for Nigeria and by His power shall return president Tinubu for 2nd term.
Tinubu has not stopped paying subsidies. In fact, he is paying way more than his clueless predecessor did.
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
Alliswell248: How he is making Petrol affordable? Is he opec? Did he cause the iran/US/Israel war. ? Is it only Nigeria that is affected? THis is a global thing. Stop been mischievours. Nigeria is a member of opec.
He fought for power, grabbed and ran with it for almost three years before the Iran war started.
Why did he fail to crash petrol prices below N185 promised despite paying subsidies illegally?
Magnumproperty: Naaaaah. We don't reason like your people. You know if not for Lord Lugard, we have nothing in common except maybe religion. And by God's grace, every imbalance will be settled come 2027. God spear us beyond 2027.
If God SPEARS you then how will you do anything thereafter?
Jakarta: Cabals doing their things, some people hold this country hostage.
The leader of the cabal is now president and he is making petrol unaffordable despite paying more subsidies illegally.
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
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