ogolemati: make everyone relax make that snatcher grabber and ran away criminal win next election, dollar will hit 2500 and above
Now that he has given us adequate electricity, will you vote for him, even though he is yet to crash petrol price as promised in January 2023 when it was N185
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
tommy589: There are more stinkilng rich people now than anytime in the history of this country. It is just the poor that's getting the short end of the stick. The poor Nigerians that I knew way back eats well,until the 80s when poverty pro max started. This widespread poverty and lack of expansion of infrastructure like running water is the result of massive corruption.
I limit expectations and don't expect dividends of democracy from any of these politicians,when it is a known fact that money changed hands before majority of present day politicians achieved victory.
You have summarised our extreme poverty journey very well sir.
The saddest part of all this is how our leaders looters take the money abroad to make oyinbo countries even better than ours. Money that provides jobs in oyinbo countries to make pipe borne water available to all homes, among other basic government services and utilities.
How can we work our way out of this quagmire conundrum
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.
Openyamind111: Lastly, as for unemployment. How many jobs do we have that we all want to be employed into in this country? This is the reality of Nigeria. Going to higher institution of learning is not enough. While you’re school, you should be engaging in order skill development engagement..
if we don’t learn new ideas and innovation how do we intend to survive when starting up businesses even require capital. We must learn to create possibilities ( possible ways of surviving and making fortunes) for ourselves. If you don’t have Job now be sure that you’re engaging in learning ideas now. If you’re wondering to what to learn. Go and learn installation of solar panel or CCTV. Solar is the future of anything that has to do with power. Meaning that in nearest future every household will be making use of solar. Think of other things that you know that can give you the future that you deserve. Don’t wait for anyone nor the government. Peace
How can you make money from self employment if local, state and federal government officials are stealing the commonwealth that should employ civil servants to make public utilities and services available for everyone?
How can you make money from self employment when leaders looters are stealing what should provide basic infrastructure to facilitate life for all?
If oyinbo people allow their own leaders to steal anyhow by focusing only on self employment instead of expecting government jobs, why would we be attracted to their cold, racist countries
Afrojuju2017: The minimum wage was also 3000 naira if I recollect so what exactly was so glamorous about it if one must subject it to reason. Petrol has never been cheap Nigerians just didn't pay the true price at the pumps you paid for it in underdevelopment in all other facets of public life.
There was also flippant armed robbery, although kidnapping outside of some incidents along the SE corridor was non existent.
That was the minimum wage before 1999.
By 2015, it had risen to N18,000 that could buy much more than N70,000 today. We also had less unemployment, which means that the people in jobs didn’t have to share their income with their jobless relatives and friends.
Openyamind111: Mobile phones (GSM) was introduced sometimes after year 2,000 except those that were using Turaya and not everyone can afford it then. yes there was Pipe borne water and free education as you've mentioned but don’t forget that before lots of student would go to school back then they would have to hawk one or two items to sell or even after school,
let me remind you, nearly all family usually have small or big farm that they are engaging back then.. and some will have to go farm first before thinking of going to school and that was why food production was sufficient back then except if you reside in Lagos or some other cities.. do we still do the family farming as much as it was in the 90s? Life was good but there were other things missing which the new generation are enjoying like the technology advancement. If you attended higher institution then you would know what it means to get your Medicaid done or if you have to borrow materials from the school Library. With the use of internet and AI you now have all information at your palm.. even in the 70s when they said Nigeria was better. They were also suffering and majorly of Nigerians back then are living primitively. Like I said earlier things will never be the same.. we should be sure that we don’t stop evolving.
Was unemployment as high as it is today since All Promises Cancelled, APC came into power chanting change but delivering shege?
Shege of extreme poverty and insecurity, enhanced by worsening corruption.
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy 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.’’
jogojogo: The good people of Nigeria love the president and are standing with him. No one listen to the noise makers
That’s so true about his Stockholm Syndrome strategy for keeping Lagosians under control since 1999, as he impoverishes the people. A strategy that has been elevated to the entire country since 2023 for widespread loyalty by greedy politicians and impoverished people.
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.
Amotolongbo: Hate Tinubu, the fact still remains that indigenous business men are making it big under him. I’m sure if this continues, the effect will trickle down.
Like the effects have trickled down in Lagos state for the past 27 years of increasing tax burden on people to grow budget 100 times without employing workers to make ordinary water available to all households?
Abi what renewed hopelessness trickle down effect are you talking about please
Openyamind111: You spoilt everything by mentioning Tinubu.. truly gone are good days when there was nothing like ethnicity and religious differences like this. There was but not as much as it is now.. you said everything became worse when Tinubu when to Kaduna. But you’ve forgotten the the POOR MAN PRAYER back in the days “God Dey” and the general saying back then “Nigeria go better” even though there was less to be worried about back then life wasn’t easy for an average individual.. how many houses had Telephone or Television let alone of having a car.
You see, this is reality of life.. things will never remain the same and that’s why as individuals you shouldn’t be stagnant. As much as you can make sure you’re evolving..
Telephone became widely available after the sector was deregulated over a quarter century ago, not so?
Was public transportation better then, making it easier to move around and about?
By the way, why don’t you consider the availability of pipe borne water and free education for all children as signs that life was better and easier back then?
Instead of sponsoring girls to tertiary schools, wisemen are advocating for their local government councillors and chairmen as well as their state lawmakers and governors to prioritise the commonwealth to employ enough well paid professional teachers for the free education of all children.
That’s how the girls’ parents will be able to afford to pay for their tertiary education.
The guy get mind o. To find money pay bride price for this Tinubu and APC economy no be small thing o.
This one wey Tinubu don fall the hands of those who had renewed hope for him to crash petrol price below N185, and make a dollar exchange for N300 in the short term, after fighting for power, grabbing it and running with it.
For you to have the mind and guts to kiss and make love to your grand mother is an extraordinary skill.
So why are you loyal to the master strategist of extreme poverty, which he uses to fight for power, grab it and hit the ground running with it cluelessly like a headless pig 🐖?
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.
Endinjustice: The level of election rigging apc the terrorist party introduced to Nigeria will take only the grace of God to be corrected.
While there is no doubt that Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC is the worst thing to happen to us, HOW do you expect only the grace of God to correct this situation without the work of every Nigerian in the process
How much of your own time, talents and other resources are you contributing to the political and governance processes in Nigeria?
SeverusSnape: "Yorubas and Fulanis are one" - Tinubu.
One NIGERIYA is a must.
There is a reason why the master strategist was made Jagaban of Borgu. He is more northerner than the Sultan of Sokoto.
anonimi: How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals
AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.
Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.
The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.
In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.
He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.
Hezzyluv: This Sunday lgboho has become a total joke.
We are one Nigeria, no need for this.
You dey mind the agbero! Where will he chase Ayédèrú Jagaban of Borgu to, after he scammed us with Yoruba lokan, to succeed his fellow northerner Buhari?
Igboho needs to go after the right culprits from the SE.
Onucs: Shame on African leaders for reducing our great continent to this.
If only African would live and flourish for it self, who is america to hold any African country to ransom over medication.
Until Africans unite and build our own continent with our resources, this hopelessness continues. It is time to stop these white thieves from coming to our lands, stealing our resources, sponsoring the worst of us as leaders and keeping Africa under their control.
#AfricansUnite
If leaders looters emerge from among the population, then would you say that the people should have greater shame or less shame?
Do you think that it’s just our tribalistic zoning and rotation to share the national cake of corruption, which has made us a shameful bunch
Or what else do you think is responsible for our failure?
razzydoo: I don't know why you decided to pick one part and leave the rest. I asked a question, is it a dictatorship? Is it a democracy?
Reading through the thread, some people questioned why the PMs are resigning every 'eke' market day? (Whatever that means) which makes sense because for a country to make progress, there must be stability in leadership.
How much progress has Nigeria made with the stability in leadership that we have had in the last decade, compared with Britain
franchasofficia: Soon to be a half Nigerian. Besides I am a superior Nigerian that can never be affected by the calamities brought upon Nigeria by APC/Tinubu's failed leadership.
God have put a mark of exemption on me and my entire household
Does this mark of exemption apply to everyone in your extended family and friends?
Abi you are too selfish for such concerns?
Is this the same attitude that they have in the country where you have found refuge since you don’t want to work for a better Nigeria
Khallicopyro: If e reach your turn accredit PDP chairman as observer
To demonstrate that you are not a robotic balablu, bulaba person, please show us where PDP accredited its state chairmen as INEC observers during 16 years of prosperity, peace and stability with cheap petrol and low debt burden.
oyeb15: He fund Ukraine war against Russia when British citizens wallow in high cost of groceries and inflammation.
Please what war is Tinubu funding for Nigerians to wallow in hyperinflation of food, rent, transportation, education etc and especially petrol that he promised to crash the price
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
razzydoo: I think it has to do with wokeism. Then the monarchy is still somehow in charge. Also ambitious and unbridled aggression from opposition like them Kem Kem contributes to the mess. Normally, British system of Government is hard to decipher. What do you call it? Is it a democracy? Is it a dictatorship? Only God knows.
You obviously have no clue about this matter and should have simply read carefully to understand what is going on and what has been going on for decades and centuries in Britain.
How has wokeism got anything to do with sacking a leader who failed to do what he promised? Do you retain the services of contractors and workers who fail to do their jobs, who fail to deliver the outcomes they promised?
How can Britain be a dictatorship when the people, through their lawmakers easily sack nonperforming leaders instead of standing on his mandate to rubber stamp loans and other requests from the president?
Menclothing1: In 10 yrs they have change 8 pm because of failed economy
In that same period, we have endured Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC’s destruction of our economy and country as we look on with renewed hopelessness.
Why do you think we are like that?
Is it just tribalistic zoning and rotation to share the national cake of corruption? Or is there something else to it?
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
fergie001: Starmer’s departure will set the UK on course for a seventh prime minister in 10 years, just two years after he led Labour to a sweeping general election victory, winning a majority of 174 seats.
His premiership has been battered by controversies and U-turns, including over winter fuel payments to older people and the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington.
Meanwhile in this giant of Africa, we are allowing the most incompetent, corrupt and clueless president to sit tight and make INEC win elections for his party.
Why are we so inferior to other countries and races, even though God made us all in His image despite our physical differences, according to the Abrahamic creation stories
Is it any wonder that we are exporting our miserably meagre resources and even ourselves to the former colonial masters, to make them even richer and better than Nigeria?
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.
benardtotti: 1. First let me address this popular propaganda that opposition have used to try and de-market Bola Tinubu about power. Tinubu gave a caveat in that very video that they use for propaganda but it's either our education system has gone totally to zero or people just choose to be funny , at the end of that video he said " unless I come to you and give adequate reasons why I couldn't deliver " Please see link to that clip below : https://youtube.com/shorts/LPkRq5ooGKM?si=CqdsWHo5S0fClYKZ
2. I agree with all you have said about power but Nigerians dont want to pay what developed countries pay for electricity
3. Of all the candidates tinubu still gets my vote as he has shown courage to try new reforms that even though looked harsh have begun to bear fruit .
The fruits of 150 million Nigerians with adequate power supply? Abi, what other fruits are you talking about?
Maybe the fruit of drinking water from shitty boreholes in Lagos after 27 years of forever ♾️ increasing tax burden on people to grow budget 100 times without employing enough well paid workers to make pipe borne water available to all households?
yorosstores: Again , you do not understand the post at all. This isn't about APC or whatever, but about the problem of a Nigeria's power.
What's my business with BRF or who ever has made promises. We are talking about the actual issues and experts referenced but you cannot see beyond party politics.
I am telling you that there is no problem with our electricity supply because Tinubu and APC reformers have fixed it.
I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.
The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.
He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.
Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world
Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.
Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.
With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.
When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.
The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.
Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.
Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.
Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?
Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?
That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’
Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.
Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!
This is not about being a Killjoy Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.
His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.
Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.
Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.
Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?
The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.
While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.
For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.
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