Dogalmighty17: Richard Nixon started this initiative with his embrace of China. This coupled with the greed of American businessmen saw American businesses rushing to take advantage of China's cheap labour.
The Chinese in the meantime were engaged in aggressive theft of American intellectual property and by the time the Americans realised what was happening, it was already too late.
Do you now agree that laziness is the cause of our backwardness and collective poverty? It is not about the West wanting us to, or not
ozo13: I wish there is a model to give car loans to civil servants and then deduct the money over a certain period.
PDP and Jonathan had the scheme before Tinubu begged Buhari out of retirement to make him a one term president, thereby ending 16 years of prosperity, peace and stability coupled with cheap petrol and less debt burden.
How and why did we allow Tinubu fool us with his 2011 expired Buhari, just so he can have his own turn eight years after making him president in 2015
Dogalmighty17: They needed South Korea to stand and counter China and North Korea. That's why the US still maintains one of its largest bases in that country.
But the West also helped China industialise, so again what is our excuse apart from being lazy?
nairalanda1: Dangote cannot revive the auto industry.
The only way we can get a working auto industry is if we have enough small scale manufacturers making the parts that go into your typical car ...like the door handles, windows, keys, and keyholes, and so forth...in Nigeria. Anything else is just assembling car for naija.
Infact, that;s why Peugeout collapsed in Nigeria before...when PAN started, they were importing all the parts needed and assembling it in NIgeria. That was never going to be sustainable...which is wny PAN went from assembling nearly 1000 cars a day in 1981 to less than 40 a day in 1994.
Develop the industrial base that would provide the stuff needed for the cars first...then we will see a truly domestic industry
But in Nigeria, apart from an apathetic government, people tend to look down and laugh at our techincians and vocationally trained people. EVERYONE wants to work in an airconditioned office and make beeg money.
Do you know about Oluwa Glass in Ondo state and Exide batteries in Ibadan, as well as Ferodo brakes, among other parts manufacturers that went into Peugeot and other assembled vehicles in Nigeria back then
Maybe they are waiting for tribalistic GO Adeboye and nobel laureate Wole Soyinka to lead them out of their unevolved state of zoning and sharing the national cake of corruption.
SixSeven: I wouldn't be surprised if they find something for them and they start signing
Na our mama be dis ooo
In the politics of Jagaban, every person has a price. How much will you sell your conscience for a finger in the cookie jar?
You are so right bro, seeing how Tinubu is stealing our money to impoverish everyone so he can bribe politicians into APC and buy votes from extreme poverty paupers.
How do we get out of this APC vicious cycle
"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.
Just like her greedy and selfish husband, Remi Tinubu does not care about anyone apart from herself. No be today wey nyansh dey back. E don tey.
BeeBeeOoh: The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu, has urged Nigerian youths to be hard-working, saying, “There is no food for lazy man.”
Mrs Tinubu said this during a courtesy visit to the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Thursday.
She noted that while the Tinubu-led administration is working hard to provide sustainable solutions to the current challenges facing the country, Nigerians should also work hard to provide for themselves.
The first lady maintained that the government will do all it takes to ensure that Nigerians are not disappointed and called for patience with Tinubu’s administration.
Mrs Tinubu said: “There is no food for the lazy man; even God worked for six days and rested on the seventh day.
“Nigeria is a land that’s flowing with milk and honey, but we need to sustain it for generations to come.
“God has richly blessed my family before getting to the presidency and we are content with what we have.
“What is happening in the country, we are just two years into our administration, we are not the cause of the current situation. We are trying to fix and secure the future.
“I have embarked on several journeys but it seems that people are not seeing what God is doing in the land. Nations across the globe want to do business with us, legally, on the table. There is a government in power now that they know it is accountable.
“We are trying all our efforts to ensure that the economy is stabilised and the masses are living meaningful lives since the removal of fuel subsidy.”
Nword22: Atifku was just a spare tyre in the presidency...he never govern a state before...he love dubia than Nigeria.
What does Obi know about the man who rescued him from political wilderness in 1=2019, five years after his failed attempt to be Anambra godfather?
Do you want to find out from Obi
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
iwaeda: Wike Boasts Of Helping APC Use Judiciary To Kill Osun LG Funds Case, Warns Party Leaders Against Ingratitude
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has openly boasted that he assisted certain elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in deploying the judiciary to frustrate the Osun State local government allocation lawsuit.
In a video now circulating widely on social media and obtained by SaharaReporters, Wike made the claim while addressing a crowd in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The former Rivers governor accused the APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, of benefitting from judicial actions against the Osun State Government without knowing those who did the work behind the scenes.
The suit in question led to the withholding of local government funds in Osun State, a development widely seen as targeting the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke as opposition in the state.
Wike, who spoke angrily, suggested that the court action supporting the APC’s position against the Osun government did not happen by chance, boasting that powerful political forces worked quietly to ensure the outcome.
“Don’t take our support for Mr President for granted,” Wike warned, in an apparent message to APC leaders defending Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. “You have to be careful about the statements you make. You have to be very careful.”
He accused Basiru of political ingratitude, claiming the APC was enjoying in Osun State without understanding who engineered their advantage.
“Today, you are enjoying in Osun. You don’t know those who did the work,” Wike said. “You are opening your mouth to talk about Rivers State.”
Nword22: Paul ibe you are a lizard and Igbos should be ashamed of here. If you were from Ngwaland we would've stone you long time ago.. you are defending your Cameroonian failure.
How is Atiku a failure compared with your own candidate
yarimo: Makinde is just wasting Oyo state tax payers money on his dead on arrival presidential ambition, instead of providing good governernce
What do you gain by confusing the better by far governor of Oyo State with the propagandist liar of a Pẹnkẹlẹmẹs minister who is recurring decimal for failed attempts to govern the state
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.’
Ibehchizzy: Let it be known there are actually people that still supports this government all because he’s their brother
Based on 2023 election results, you have more tribalistic people in the SE than elsewhere in Nigeria.
Unfortunately for them, the 100% rigged votes for Obi simply helped Tinubu get his own turn to continue APC extreme poverty and insecurity shege.
The saddest part is how they ignored wise counsel and warnings about their folly, from people wey sabi road.
jameshankss: Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
vickthourh: I have been using firewood since the scarcity, there are Woods in my community, so that's an opportunity for me and family..
The only thing is that afterwards I will warm with either the gas, or if there is light, I'll use hotplate to cook or warm food
How quickly do you expect the replacement trees you are planting, to grow well enough so you and your descendants don’t die off due to lack of food and firewood to cook
MasterTeeUSA: You can relocate...your village is still available
Do you have any clue how the only change that has happened since 2015 is the change of APC promises?
Abi how many times have you bought petrol for less than N70 since Tinubu begged Buhari to come out of retirement and replace Jonathan, four years after he called the same old soldier, expired?
For the last 11 years, what has changed for better in Nigeria
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
IDERAWOLE: Don't worry. This is the bandit himself.
You can join him too.
All of you disguising on the social media working for the bandits in agbada, your days are numbered.
Can there be a worse bandit than the one who is in Aso Rock currently, with the title of Jaga-Bandit?
Do you think that is why he negotiates with them and reinforces their capacity with money
26.11.2025 FEATURED
‘Tactical Ransom or Negotiation?’ Nigerians Question Tinubu, FG as Kebbi, Kwara Terrorists Go Scot-Free
Since the Nigerian government confirmed that the abducted 38 worshippers in Kwara State and the 24 Kebbi schoolgirls had been freed, many Nigerians have been awaiting updates about the arrest or killing of their abductors.
The silence of the federal and state governments on consequences for the perpetrators has led many to believe that the government likely negotiated with the terrorists and paid ransom to have the abductees released.
FIJ called the spokespersons of the Nigerian Army (NA) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) on Wednesday morning, but neither provided answers to questions about the abductors.
Shortly after Kebbi Governor Nasir Idris and Bello Matawalle, Minister of Defence, announced on Tuesday that the 24 students had been freed, the terrorists who abducted the girls released a video, saying the government negotiated with them for the girls’ release.
manmade: I'm not surprised that the idiot is one of the obidients lazy youths, well, you have broken the hedge and the serpent will bites you.
Are you surprised that APC idiots in Aso Rock since 2015 have failed to make their terrorists disappear, after achieving their own goal of making Jonathan a one term president, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and stability?
How can your APC idiots track voice notes, Kanu’s movements, #EndSARS bank transactions etc so easily but fail to track terrorists, kidnappers, bandits and other criminals? Do you think that is because they are all working together for Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC
ReportNigeria: Oby Ezekwesili, a former presidential aspirant, has reacted to the interim Order of the Federal High Court that froze the bank accounts of EndSars protesters.
OgbeniOja1: But them no fit track and arrest bandits. Clowns. I'm disappointed in the government
It’s a matter of interest bro.
Why would JagaBandeiit of Borgu track his fellow northerners whose banditry made Nigeria ungovernable for Jonathan? So ungovernable that Tinubu could easily repackage and rebrand his 2011 expired old soldier Buhari as APC messiah four years later.
Was that not how his APC predecessor tracked Kanu to Kenya and smuggled him back into Nigeria, for Tinubu to finally send him to jail in Sokoto?
Tinubu and APC leaders looters certainly know what they are doing, by playing politics with our lives.
favor914: U that is wasting your time waiting for Tinubu to arrange your life should blame yourself.
Why are you mixing up things so badly?
How can any Nigerian be waiting for Tinubu to arrange his life, when we are the ones paying the taxes that Tinubu brags about for hitting his record breaking revenue targets and using to arrange his own life with luxury items while he worsens APC’s extreme poverty and insecurity shege?
The extreme poverty and insecurity shege that he replaced PDP’s widespread prosperity, peace and stability with 11 years ago, when he begged his 2011 expired old soldier Buhari to come out of retirement and make Jonathan a one term president.
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.
tiswell: What kind of yeye politics are they playing with lives
Tueh!!!
Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC are master strategists in playing politics with Nigerian lives and wellbeing. This is how they fight to grab power and run with it.
No be today. E don tey.
Omooba77: …says Nigeria experienced economic development during Jonathan’s administration
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.
SixSeven: @anonimi I wanted to reply to your comment yesterday on the Adeboye thread but I didn't have time. Some of what Adeboye is accused of is wrong but the church cannot absolve itself from complicity. Why? It already has a conflict of interest in political matters. Today, I have some time and I am compiling some of the records we have about the church and its role in politics.
Many thanks for your excellent research and videos on this topic.
Religion and politics are intertwined. The level of interconnection depends on how evolved and liberal a society is, whereby the people have come to a PERSONAL relationship/understanding with God, devoid of priests cajoling them as sole INTERMEDIARIES to Him.
Northsouth: you're asking questions as if you don't know Nigeria system I have already explained and expressed everything I can, you just choose not to understand vividly.
There's no solution unless disintegration That's it You can go back to my expressions and read it carefully enough instead of repeating questions over and over again
So why have you and others before you failed to disintegrate Nigeria, if that is the only solution
Imagine how they defend his cluelessness, corruption and incompetence upandan.
What has changed for better since he begged Buhari out of retirement to make Jonathan a one term president and end 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and security? Anything? Any single thing?
Definitely not petrol price that they promised should never go above N70.
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
madridguy: I don't know why the church members have not use the government house as their permanent abode till the governor will get their people from the kidnappers.
When did you make the governor the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and the person to whom the IGP reports
It's not by shouting my turn my turn upandan to fight for power, grab it and hit the ground running with it cluelessly like a pig. Governance is not by increasing tax forever to steal and bribe politicians with into decamping, while buying votes from deliberately impoverished masses.
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.
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