Northsouth: NO, they shouldn't be allowed to emerge. But when you talk about zoning and rotation I think it's a complex and complicated situation Because Nigeria is not one and whether they can be one or not later on, that I can neither predict or be sure of There's already tribalistic formation in the country and it will take special divine intervention and humane sensitization to eradicate that. Be that as it may The country needs to divide and disintegrate into different countries at least to ones that have general understandable languages The foundation has already been bad. Nothing can actually stand on a faulty one
Rationalising corruption of tribalistic turn by turn zoning and rotation, is obviously not complex for you.
How do we make progress sustainably if we continue with this arrangement and attitude towards governance
He and other members of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC are just interested in next year’s election and the subsequent 3rd term agenda for life president. Something that Obasanjo failed to achieve in 2007!
iwaeda: We were forced to be in Band A, without much advantage. We hardly get 17 hours average in a month, yet we are paying premium. Tinubu has said we should not vote him, if we don't have constant electricity.
Now that Adelabu Penkelemess confirmed that we have electricity, as Buhari and Fashola promised 11 years ago, will you vote for him, even though he has failed to crash petrol price and make a dollar equal to $300 in the short term, three years after hitting the ground running
AbosedeFalade: Says who? You and the OP are not informed.
You are obviously not informed about the new sheriff, master strategist in town, working with Amupitan's INEC and Wike's courts to clear the road of any jagajaga opposition to his unanimous reelection and subsequent 3rd term agenda for life president in 2031.
3rd term agenda that Obasanjo failed to achieve 19 years ago, because Atiku led other democratic heroes to kill the bill in the NASS despite Ghana must go bags of bribe.
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.”
Truvelisback: You see, Religious and tribalistic sentiment have ruined this miserable country. If Evans, an Igbo man and a kidnapper could be arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law, why is these brutal kidnappers, bandits and terrorists exempted?
This is the legacy of master strategist, Jagaban of Borgu for his fellow northerners.
The serial betrayer of Yorubas, southerners and Nigerians is solely focused on his selfish ambition of fighting for power, to grab and run with it cluelessly like a headless pig.
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.
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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.’’
DeltaBachelor: Hmmm. This is good for the body, however, try to create roads for cyclists alone to avoid stories that touch abeg
The governor prioritised airport over the employment of teachers to make education free for all children. How can you expect such a useless progreThief to create roads for cyclists all over the state
Northsouth: Is just a wicked world with Heartless leaders
Since the leaders are not from space, are they allowed to emerge from among equally heartless people who have a tribalistic ideology of zoning and rotation to share the national cake of corruption
madridguy: Davido should come out and defend his uncle as usual. Imagine 300 million naira worth of drones got missing
Are you expecting him to do what you do steadfastly for the worst looter of Lagos State since 1999, who has failed to deliver ordinary water supply despite increasing budget 100 times with higher tax burden on people in his master plan
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.
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.
The current UBA led by Elumelu is a cesspool of corruption.
Unfortunately, he won’t be jailed as he is a sacred cow for Tinubu and Oshiomole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.
ijustdey: Nigeria will pay an interest of 11.85 percent per annum on the $3.3 billion “pre-export finance facility” (PxF) facilitated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd and arranged by Afrexim Bank, TheCable can report.
Until now, the fine details of the transaction, which has a five-year tenor, had been withheld by all parties involved.
A similar cocoa-backed $800 million facility arranged for Ghana by its cocoa marketing board attracts an interest of 8 percent per annum.
Bilateral lenders, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), would typically charge 1-3 percent with a longer tenor.
In the details seen by TheCable, Nigeria pledged a total of 164.25 million barrels of crude oil — at 90,000 barrels per day — starting from 2024 to repay the loan through Project Gazelle Funding Ltd, an “orphan” special purpose vehicle (SPV) incorporated in Bahamas for the PxF.
Effectively, the NNPC has pledged 38.58 percent of five years’ worth of tax and royalty oil to secure the loan.
Nigeria pledges over $12 billion worth of oil At the beginning of 2024, a barrel of Nigerian oil was sold at the international market at $77.93 per barrel, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) data.
At $77.93 per barrel, the 164.25 million barrels of oil pledged by Nigeria equals $12.8 billion — about three times more than the facility taken.
Pre-2014, the national oil company used to remit an average of $3 billion from oil sales every month.
Officially, Project Gazelle Funding Ltd (PGFL) is the borrower while the NNPC is the “sponsor” and will pay with oil to the SPV to liquidate the loan.
To make the repayment, the NNPC will forward-sell 90,000 barrels per day of Nigeria’s share of offshore crude oil under the production sharing contract (PSCs) with the oil companies.
Under PSCs, the companies usually pay royalties and taxes by giving the oil equivalent to the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) respectively.
The NNPC in turn exports the oil on behalf of NUPRC and FIRS and remits the proceeds to the agencies.
This is part of the revenues paid into the federation account and shared by the three tiers of government.
But under the PxF, the revenue from 90,000 barrels per day will be used to service the loan in the next five years.
The loan arrangers will get a commission of $66 million or 2% of the facility, TheCable further learnt.
Nigeria will pay 2 percent penalty per annum in the event of a default.
‘DOLLAR LIQUIDITY TO STABILISE THE NAIRA’
The national oil company announced in August 2023 that the PxF was to support the federal government “in its ongoing fiscal and monetary policy reforms aimed at stabilizing the exchange rate market”, describing it as “a relief for the naira”.
It called the facility “crude oil repayment” with an upfront cash loan “against proceeds from a limited amount of future crude oil production”.
At the time, the dollar exchanged for an average of N775 in the official market and N885 on the streets.
The rates have now moved to N1,035/$ (official) and N1,230/$ (parallel).
Nigeria’s outstanding forex liabilities are currently thought to be over $7 billion.
In an explainer after announcing the PxF last year, the NNPC said its exposure is very limited, “covering just a fraction” of their entitlements and that “there are no sovereign guarantees tied to it”.
It said it “will also equip the Federal Government with the necessary dollar liquidity to stabilize the Naira, with limited risk”.
A strengthened naira as a result of the initiative, it said, “will lead to a reduction in fuel costs. This means that if the Naira appreciates in value, the cost of fuel will drop and further increases will be halted”.
It also ruled out subsidies, maintaining that a stronger naira “will result in lower prices from the current level, making subsidies unnecessary. The deregulation policy remains unchanged”.
Critics questioned NNPC’s involvement in getting loans to boost forex reserves when it should be concentrating its efforts on bringing in more oil revenues.
There were also questions over the decision to pledge the tax and royalty oil belonging to the entire federation to secure the loan.
Analysts also queried why the details of the deal were never made public.
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration to speed up the prosecution of terrorists and bandits in the country to send a strong message to them.
Abubakar stated this while reacting to the recent attack on the convoy of Emir of Kaura Namoda, Sanusi Muhammad in Zamfara state.
Atiku said the killing of innocent people on a daily basis is embarrassing and should be contained before the outlaws get total control of our lives.
Eight people, including three police officers, were killed when the gunmen attacked the emir’s convoy on his way back from Abuja on Thursday.
The former vice-president described the insecurity as “worrisome”, saying the federal government’s response should be tougher.
“Condemnation of attacks is not enough to reassure citizens who are constantly living in fear,” he said in a statement.
“The government should speed up the prosecution of terrorists and bandits in order to send a strong message to these outlaws that there are consequences for the willful taking of life.
“The frequency and ease with which the bandits are killing innocent people almost on a daily basis is embarrassing and should be halted lest outlaws are allowed to rule over affairs.
“Atiku commiserates with the families of all those who may have lost a dear one, Emir Muhammad Asha, the Kaura Namoda Emirate Council and the government and people of Zamfara State over the tragedy.”
Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
HacheNoire: Kidnapping is already a business like yahoo!
Even if all Fulanis’s are kidnappers which is false, they don’t have the numbers and capacity to be kidnapping in all corners of Nigeria.
The old soldier Buhari that Tinubu begged to come out of retirement and make Jonathan a one term president, said that not criminals and that they are not kidnappers, since they don’t follow their cows with guns, just wood.
JagaBandeit of Borgu is also looking for cows to excuse his fellow northerners from criminal allegations.
nairalanda1: So based on your criteria, we should vote for someone like Sowore.
Tinubu, Atiku and Obi all had deaths under their rule, if you catch my drift. (Obi had the Azu river thing going on, and tinubu left lagos as unsafe as he met it. As for atiku...part of obasanjo govt, which bred boko, part of buhari govt....which worsened things)
This also means GEJ was not a sane leader with all the deaths and killings under his rule.
(Tinubu own is just as bad too, which is why he is a failure, he did make security his priority..or so he promised, lol)>
Plus anytime increasing funding for the armed forces and police is talked about, you guys will say they will become more corrupt, therefore they must not be funded. Okay...
Based on your own criteria, who should we vote for as president?
What of senators and representatives, as well as state legislators and governors, without forgetting LGA councillors and chairmen? Abi those ones don’t matter
Klington: Well meaning Nigerians have chosen Peter Obi.
This scamalicious Peter Obi? Or you have another one in mind
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.
Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?
PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3
— Senator Baruch Chinanu Boniface (@SenatorBaruch1) November 7, 2023
Truvelisback: Good judgement maybe because the judge is not a northerner. I doubt the same judgement would be given to those terrorists in the northern part of the country because there, terrorists are being pampered and sympathized, instead of being ruthlessly dealt with.
Is that why terrorists are pampered by this northerner, jagaBandeit of Borgu
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.
Gbadugbakun: They should make their execution public like in the military days as warning to those who are towing that path. All these audio death sentences isn't what we want at a time like this.
Did public executions reduce crimes during the military era?
kpankpangolo: One aspect not pictured: the heavily pregnant late twenties to late fifties men I see every day in bars, lounges and clubs. Show me how it’ll improve their looks and I will believe you.
Are we having more of such heavily pregnant men because of kwashiokor, caused by drinking water from shitty boreholes as our governors fail to employ workers that will make pipe borne water available to all households
The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.
500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.
But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.
The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”
While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.
He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’
Ade2024: Guy during yar'adua time there is not this kind of hardship and death
This kind, meaning Tinubu's kind?
If that is your point, then I fully agree with you that Tinubu is the worst president since 1999. No one beats his wickedly clueless record of raising money from Nigerians to loot, steal and rob!
Lithiumite: Your drooling rhetoric on a singular factor is whats the most irritating about your thinking.....are you now telling me to now trust obi saying he will turn Nigeria to dubai in 4 years.......we all cant be as foolish hope you know!.
Where did you fabricate Obi and Dubai from in the comment you read to reply?
Are you suggesting that Lagosians are foolish to have given money to Tinubu and his surrogate successors for 100 times increase in the state budget over 27 years, without water supply and with less than 5% schools run by the progressive master plan of the balablu strategist
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
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