FSBoperator: Which privacy? PVC information is public information as long as it is not used for impersonation. Even at that, as a candidate running for public office, every relevant information submitted to INEC including your PVC details are open to public scrutiny.
When are you expecting Lere Olayinka to be jailed for hacking INEC website
bolaayenimo: I fully support this. In a saner clime now, he should have been invited by the DSS
DSS invitation is only for those who are not in sync with the Oga at the top of Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.
Those who are aligned and loyal, like this LAHA Speaker are protected species, who are sinless redeemed saints.
chisomkachy: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has withdrawn the alleged money laundering suit it filed at the Federal High Court against Lagos Speaker Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa.
Naija News understands that the anti-graft did not give any particular reason for its application for withdrawal.
Following the application to withdraw, Justice Nicholas Oweibo discharged the ‘lien/Post No Debit’ placed on Obasa’s three accounts in Standard Chartered Bank.
The accounts are (US Dollars) 0001852063; (Current) 0001852056 and (Saving) 5002309624.
The judge also set aside the ex-parte orders he made on September 15, 2020, which led to the freezing of the accounts.
Recall that the court on September 15, 2020, granted an interim order freezing Obasa’s accounts following the EFCC’s application in a suit marked FHC/LCS/1064/2020.
The agency had said it was investigating the Speaker for the alleged offences of conspiracy, diversion of funds, abuse of office and money laundering.
But Justice Oweibo, on August 16, 2023, heard the application to unfreeze the accounts in his chamber.
During the hearing, the EFCC was represented by Mr. Sulaiman I. Sulaiman, while Obasa was represented by Mr. Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN).
The EFCC lawyer told the court that the application to unfreeze the accounts was pursuant to Section 44(2)(K) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Sections 26, 29 and 34 (1) of the EFCC (Establishment) Act, 2004, and under the court’s inherent jurisdiction.
Section 44 of the Constitution concerns constitutional rights to property.
Justice Oweibo held: “It is hereby ordered that an order is hereby granted to the respondent/applicant setting aside the ex-parte orders of this court made on the 15th day of September 2020 upon the ex-parte motion of the Applicant/ Respondent in relation the funds of the Respondent/Applicant domiciled in the accounts stated in the following schedule:
“ACCOUNT NAME, FINANCIAL ACCOUNT INSTITUTIONS, TYPE OF ACCOUNT, 1. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered, (US Dollars) 0001852063 2. Mudasiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Current) 0001852056 3. Mudashiru Ajayi Obasa, Standard Chartered (Saving) 5002309624.
“Issued at Lagos, under the seal of this Honourable Court and by the hands of the Presiding Judge this 16th day of August 2023.”
QuinQ: Maybe in this case it was a matter of not being religious enough. He didn't say they prayed and prayed and his dad still died. He said there was no doctor around - as if a doctor being around would have guaranteed his father wouldn't die!
*Also, I can assure you those doctors were not all in church!
The self-acclaimed billionaire content creator is simply an attention-deficient hustler.
Can you imagine what he said below about the failure called Tinubu
Cutezt: Prominent real estate developer Keji Giwa, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Landlords and Giwa Gardens Water Park, has ignited fierce public backlash across social media following a series of controversial remarks regarding his political alignments, business strategies, and views on the Nigerian economy.
In a podcast episode that has gone viral, the UK-trained entrepreneur openly declared his backing for President Bola Tinubu's administration, stating that his endorsement is rooted purely in calculated business interests. More strikingly, Giwa admitted that he is actively "banking on" Nigeria's economic situation not improving.
Addressing potential concerns about local instability or inflation, Giwa remarked that his family remains entirely insulated from the day-to-day economic struggles facing average citizens. "Whether Nigeria gets better or not, I’m perfectly okay," citing his family's reliance on private schooling and accumulated generational wealth.
The comments immediately triggered a wave of condemnation from the Nigerian public and diaspora communities. Online commentators quickly labeled the developer's stance as "selfish," "exploitative," and emblematic of a detached billionaire class that thrives precisely because of systemic failures, poor governance, and corruption.
Giwa has previously drawn criticism for stating that poor income distribution in Nigeria benefits his enterprise by allowing him to pay lower local wages.
This is not the first time the real estate mogul has found himself in the crosshairs of public outrage. Just months ago, Giwa faced intense scrutiny over a podcast appearance where he openly prayed for the UK government to deport his former employees who had migrated abroad, claiming they had "used and abused" his company after receiving training.
Beyond his public commentary, Giwa’s business practices are facing direct pressure from disgruntled clients. A series of investigative reports and public complaints have exposed severe investor unrest within his primary companies, Digital Landlords and Giwa Gardens.
Several high-profile investors—including a US-based psychiatric technician who invested ₦19 million and a Lagos-based developer with ₦8.16 million trapped—have come forward to accuse Giwa of withholding both their capital and promised returns on investment (ROI) for up to five years. Investors claim that requests for refunds have been met with evasion, legal pushback, and social media blocking, further dampening public trust in his high-profile coastal development proposals like the newly unveiled "Eko Miami."
KillahPriest: When I tell you guys that the APC are made up of mad people, you think I'm joking.
Anyways, the key words here are Igbos and Christians therefore, those two groups should use their tongues to count their teeth going forward in Delta state
How is what you said different from what Bwala said about Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC below
HacheNoire: Pedo has bitten more than he can chew 🤣😆😂 Now, he is about to blame Netanyahu for his woes! Only Iran can do this! I hope Israel won’t send Trump to same destination they sent President John F. Kennedy
Who do you hope will send Tinubu to the same place that JFK was sent?
Is Tinubu not more fucking crazy as Netanyahu, and completely clueless about governance as entertainer Trump is, with his balablu bulaba propaganda lies that can't cover up for his incompetence and corruption
Thundafireseun: My Tommy is 10 times bigger than all the tummy in this pictures
Is that because you are drinking water from shitty boreholes due to the looting of your taxes and what is collected on your behalf? Money that should employ technicians, engineers, billing clerks, administrators etc to make pipe borne water available to everyone
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.’
AlabiKILLER2023: The beheaded one will be freed also Ewedu logic's Tinubu is a fraudster
He murdered Funsho William and Bola Ige
What could be JagaBandeit of Borgu's motivation to kill Obasanjo's AGF in 2001, two years before the election in which Atiku had his best chance of becoming president by making Baba Iyabo a one term president, like Tinubu did to Jonathan and ended 16 years of PDP prosperity, cheap petrol, low debt, less insecurity etc
aieromon: According to sources available to us that time, Obasanjo said he will do a single term but after that, he decided to go for second term. I was physically present at Rivers state Governor’s Lodge when the heat became too much and Obasanjo in the presence of all of us knelt down in front of Atiku begging him to allow him do a second term. I think that was how Atiku missed the opportunity by agreeing to Obasanjo’s plea. His thought was that at least, if Obasanjo completes his second term, he will hand over to him but you all know the story of Third Term Agenda and that was how they fell apart. Atiku had the best opportunity to become president in 2003 and lost it. He had the support of PDP governors then.
Around November 2002, 15 of the 21 Governors from the PDP including me, had an ad hoc meeting at my lodge in Abuja to decide who should be nominated by the Governors Committee for election by PDP as the presidential nominee for the 2003 Election.
The Governors Committee decided almost unanimously to get a new candidate instead of President Obasanjo as the Committee was of the view that because of his military background, he was intolerant of dissent and had displayed very dictatorial and vindictive tendencies against those he perceived to be independent-minded and disloyal to him.
Immediately after the Governors meeting, I led the delegation of Governors to meet the then PDP Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at his residence around 2 am.
As the leader of the delegation, I spoke and communicated the views of the Governors to the Chairman, which was that the Governors had decided not to support President Obasanjo as PDPs nominee for the 2003 General Election.
The party chairman tried to persuade us to review our decision but when he saw our resolve, he told us that he would inform the President. I was later informed by Chief Audu Ogbeh that after we left his house he put an urgent call to the President and informed him of our decision.
What then followed were intense consultations before the PDP annual convention which took place in January 2003. Two days before the party convention, the Governors had a breakfast meeting with President Obasanjo.
I recall that at that meeting, the then Vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku told the President in the presence of the Governors that he was known to be very dictatorial, vindictive and unforgiving. The President appealed to the Governors to support him and assured both the Governors and the party leadership that if he was allowed to continue for the second term, he would adopt a more democratic approach.
On the basis of the President's assurance, given at that breakfast meeting, I led the move for the Governors to support his presidential nomination for the second term. However, notwithstanding my support for President Obasanjo's nomination for a second term, the President after the nomination, acted very shabbily towards me.
When I met him soon after the convention, he told me that he had learned that I had put forward the view that he was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable. He then vowed that he was going to make sure that I was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable.
Atiku Camp - Visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND OBASANJO DURING THE PDP CONVENTION?
According to Adesanya, Atiku met the governors the first day of the convention; they urged him to leave Obasanjo and seek the nomination himself. Atiku demurred; he also deflected the suggestion that he join Ekwueme. Finally, Atiku arranged a meeting between Obasanjo and the now irate governors. The governors railed that Obasanjo was hypocritically pursuing them for corruption, while turning a blind eye to corrupt politicians within his own Administration. Atiku supported the governor's position, telling Obasanjo that significant corruption was not the exclusive ambit of the governors and that serious transgressions occurred in the executive branch: he said it would be unjust to focus exclusively on gubernatorial excesses. Assuming the role of mediator, Atiku then asked both sides to affirm their mutual support and cease the antagonism being fueled by elements that wanted to destroy the PDP. The governors agreed to bury the hatchet, if Obasanjo would shelve the dossiers. Having demonstrated his influence with the governors, Atiku continued to play coy with Obasanjo.
In the end, Atiku extracted an extraordinary concession from the President. Obasanjo agreed to relinquish the entire domestic agenda to Atiku, including the appointment of key economic policy-makers. Since Obasanjo focused on the world arena during his first term and aspired for recognition as an international statesman, Atiku said that is where he would like Obasanjo's attentions to remain. Obasanjo would serve the role of a "super Foreign Minister" and ceremonial Head of State. As Adesanya understood the agreement, Atiku would be allowed to direct domestic economic policy while Obasanjo busied himself with debt relief, NEPAD, conflict resolution and other measures to shore up Nigeria's image abroad.
OBJ camp - visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP CONVENTION
The President was dazed, Abayomi recalled. Jarred by the unexpected possibility of defeat, the usually know-it-all Obasanjo eagerly solicited counsel on how to escape the closing vise. Early that day, the dominant theme was to seek a court injunction postponing the convention. Proponents suggested the delay to afford Obasanjo time to marshal support and undermine Ekwueme's momentum. However, this idea was ultimately discarded, partially because of apprehension over the public's reaction. More importantly, the push for an injunction became less urgent when the President's advisors began to sense their man was regaining ground by the hour.
The President owed much of his recovery to his own tenacity and, at times, shamelessness. He pulled out virtually all the stops to clinch the nomination, according to Abayomi. For most of that day, the President's diet consisted of liberal portions of humble pie. The President pleaded and cajoled; on at least two occasions his eyes welled with emotion as he pursued fence-sitting delegates and governors. However, Obasanjo saved his best to keep Vice President Atiku from defecting.
With rumor swirling that Atiku would opt to run with Ekwueme, Obasanjo wasted no time visiting the Vice President's residence. Obasanjo begged, declaring he would not leave Atiku's home unless the Vice President accompanied him to win back the delegates and governors. The performance had the desired effect. Atiku joined Obasanjo in publicly lobbying the conventioneers. While it might not have been Obasanjo's finest hour it was the defining moment of the convention. What had been a suspenseful contest would now turn into a rout.
Babaken: One thing I know is that tinubu will lose more vote than last election.
That possibility won't affect his reelection and subsequent 3rd term agenda to be life president, something that Obasanjo failed to achieve in 2007.
Jagaban of Borgu is a master strategist for a reason. Amupitan's INEC and Wike's courts are determined to keep any viable opposition off the ballot.
Fasten your seatbelt for worsening APC extreme poverty shege and insecurity than you have seen since 2015.
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.”
Dididrumz: These guys dey get mind every single day.
Understandably so, since we allowed a cluelessly incompetent balablu bulaba master strategist have his turn at destroying Nigeria, after his 2011 expired soldier was done with us.
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.
kwaso2: For me: Government should legislate birth control. If you earn less than 250k or its equivalent, you cannot have more than a child. Too many children is one of the key drivers of poverty and domestic frustration. If you don't have a clear source of income, you do not have business with procreation. In fact, Abortion should be free in all government hospitals. Primary health care centres should be trained and nurtured to support safe abortions to terminate unwanted responsibilities AKA children
A man that earns less than 200k with 3 children cannot conveniently buy a bottle of Malta and relax because of too many financial responsibilities
What % of your time, talent and other resources have you committed to the advocacy for your own LGA councillor, state lawmaker, senator and representative to legislate birth control at the local, state and federal levels respectively?
If you are not doing the advocacy WORK, then who do you expect to do it for your desire to come true
babythug: I hear you but sometimes life isn’t always black and white.
The subject of this discussion- the girl isn’t likely to see/envision more than where the next meal will come from. Certain levels and depths of poverty distort the human mind such that they cannot begin to comprehend or imagine a good and decent life is possible for themselves
Unfortunately, Nigerian elites feel unconcerned enough to engage more in politics, thereby letting area boys and touts determine our fate in governance through politics that throws up the worst among us, in tribalistic zoning and rotation for sharing the national cake of corruption.
This is how we ended up replacing PDP prosperity, security, safety, cheap petrol, low debt etc with APC's extreme poverty shege 11 years ago.
Helpfromabove1: This is pure rubbish and very insensitive
Playing politics with the life of innocent children
Playing politics with Nigerians' security, safety and wellbeing is the regular trademark of wicked politicians in Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.
No be today.
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.
Atiku is the answer and redeemer of this country from APC's extreme poverty and insecurity shege that was installed 11 years ago. That was when Tinubu begged Buhari to come out of retirement and replace Jonathan, thereby ending 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace and security that was driven by deregulation and privatisation policies laid down in 1999 by Obasanjo/Atiku.
This is why that agbeero in Aso Rock has instructed Amupitan's INEC and Wike's courts to ensure Atiku and ADC are not on the ballot. This is why ADA party was not registered after Wike used his compromised judges to destroy PDP.
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.”
WizardOfNG: Indeed. Check my post to note I am the poster who daily insist no Fulani must be President of Nigeria in 2027.
My reasoning is simple..The entire North, leaders and followers, should go and focus on ending the insecurity they are causing our nation. They know these terrorist and their location. If they are not tacitly in support of their activities, it won't be difficult for the North to eliminate the terrorist amongst them.
I cannot imagine proliferation of Yoruba terrorism in the SW. We are straightforward, not radical or extremist, and will move to destroy terrorist killers when they rise and even if they are our brothers.
Yoruba leaders moved to fight Malami and deliver Amotekun when imported terror threatened the SW seriously.
Where is the serious and sincere effort of Northern Governors and leaders? The South is indulging the North too much and failing to hold the region to task.
If sincere, do the likes of Atiku, El Rufai, Malami etal need Presidential power before they declare their own internal war on Fulani terrorism?
There is no worse Nigerian today than Southerners supporting Atiku like Anonimi, Aminda, Odin13 etal on this forum, .
This is because the only thing we must do to Northerners is to challenge them to fix up rather than seek ultimate office because they are causing us in the South, doing the right things and giving Nigeria semblance of sane nationhood, existential problems.
I actually agree with Truthera and have said the same thing , and as you conclude, that the South must come together and demand the North destroy these terrorists themselves. They know them, from leaders to followers, abet their terrorist capacity.
Southerners continue to discuss politics without understanding we can have it much better if we bravely stand up to the North.
This country must have a sincere conversation with itself and act on delivering crucial solutions immediately. USA aren't mincing words. They call out Fulanis daily, on our behalf, as the existential threat of Nigeria.
They mention Miyetti Allah Kwankwaso etc yet we Nigerians cannot even minimally commit to enforcing ban on open grazing and , once and for all, stop Fulanis herding cattle across Nigeria. Solutions that can be delivered in 24 hours we drag for years in Nigeria till the problem becomes a hydra-headed monster.
We are not serious in Nigeria and the average Nigeria does not know how to identify solutions let alone agitated for it uncompromisingly.
Why are you supporting the closet northerner, jagabandeit of Borgu who has serially betrayed Yorubas
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.
Reloadedisraelp: very correct... But for me ...if am the president I will ensure they all work along.... infact I'll force a policy where all the governors and local government chairmen will be carrying 60% of Nigeria problem on their shoulder... while I watch afar their progress and cut off those not progressing..
How are governors and LGA chairmen responsible and accountable to the president rather than to the people of their state and LGA Should state legislators and LGA councillors also be accountable to the president?
Meanwhile, what is the logic of your president watching rather than working his own shift with the 53% federation account he alone has, compared with the 27% shared by 36 governors and 20% shared by 774 constitutional LGAs?
Who are those still carried away by the scam stories of Tinubu & family?
Is it by living in luxury at our expense that Remi, her husband and their family are tackling Nigeria's problems?
Who be their maga
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.
Justnation: Atiku Abubakar should have taken the honourable part and step aside from contesting this election. He has damaged his reputation irredeemably. Atiku Abubakar will fail woefully and shamefully
Yes, like Trump failed at his comeback attempt?
Or like the Liberian president who was previously vice president a long time ago?
If the man who rescued Obi from political wilderness, five years after his own protégé Obiano kicked him out of APGA in 2014, will damage his reputation in the next election, then why are Amupitan’s INEC and Wike’s courts working overtime to ensure Atiku and ADC are not on the ballot? Why did they not register ADA after Wike hijacked PDP with spurious court cases
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.”
slivertongue: Adamawa people and the endless fight with Atiku
Atiku’s excellence in governance, driven by his commitment to deregulation, privatisation and education for widespread prosperity, needs to be complemented by magnanimity and humility that binds people to him, like Tinubu who is a political master strategist but a totally clueless governance failure.
UncleAyo: The government seems to be the sponsors of these Fulani terrorists destroying life and properties of many Nigerians. That's why they are being handled with kids gloves.
Funny thing is that most of them are not from Nigeria but are with the agenda of establishing Islam and occupy other people's land throughout the country.
Individual that abuse the government or politicians on social media are fast located and arrested but Fulani terrorist and bandits floating cash paid as ransom on social media are with little to no record of arrest.
All these fake imported religions have destroyed the normal mental processes of a lot of our people.
If you are following any of the two religion, you should know for fact that:
There is no heaven, there is no hell, there is no God (or god), there is no Allah, there are no angels, there are no demons, there are no spirits, there is no life after death, juju don't work, there is no eternal judgment, there is no karma, there was no historical Jesus. All those are figment of human imaginations and tools use by a very few some to control the very many others. The earlier you understand and accept these facts as facts, the happier and merrier your life and existence will be.
The religion you're currently claiming is the religion of your parents, if you were born into a different family of another religion (say Hinduism), that is the exact religion you will practice.
You were born without a religion in you, your factory reset has no religion in it. If you were to be a phone and they do factory reset on you today being a phone, there will not be anything found related to religion in your settings, files and file systems anymore; you learn religion only after your birth growing up.
Islam is idolatry and paganism, Christianity aswell is idolatry - All the world religion is idolatry, including all the Abrahamic religion. Holy communion is idolatory, bowing for a stone call Kaaba of the Bedouin tribes is also idolatory, killing of rams is idolatory, kissing or licking of a stone at mecca is idolatory, throwing of stone at pilgrimage is idolatory too.
Infact, Illah is what the Arabic call God and not Allah. Allah was one of the diety been worshiped before the invention of Islam. That is why muslims will say something like "la ilah ila huwa" meaning Allah is one Illah (God). Have you ask yourself why Prophet Mohammed's father who was an idol worshiper and who lived before the invention of islam has Allah in is name Abdullai== Abdu Allah? It is because Allah has been an idol worshiped by paganists before the Prophet received his revelations.
Nakedly circumambulations of the Kaaba, annual prigrimage to mecca, kissing of black stone, bowing towards the stone (stone worship) are all preislamic pagan practises by the nomadic Bedouin tribe and the same is what they still practice today.
All Abrahamic religion are idolatory, they only package them well and condemn your heritage as evil, whereas, Nigeria was better in terms of morality, honesty and integrity before they brought the foreign religions.
In peace loving, emotional intelligence, love for neighbors, respect for sanctity of life, we are even better than those who brought those religion with primitive leaders and prophets whose morality and characters are highly questionable.
Release yourself today from the shackles of religion. Stop wasting away your life and existence!
If you like, allow one illiterate alfa, imam or pastor to keep telling you "you will go to hell". When you die, your dead experience will be like the same experience you had before your conception (pregnancy) ie. There is nothing like afterlife. Or where were you before your mother gave birth to you?
It’s very logical that JagaBandeit of Borgu organised his fellow northerners to make Nigeria ungovernable before he begged Buhari to come out of retirement and replace Jonathan, so he can get his own turn at the treasury eight years later.
Richtaiwo: While Reno was answering some questions, he was able to prove that most Nigerians don't understand economy. What most of them understand is eba, garri, rice etc.
Some comments on this thread have proved Reno very correct.
Why is the brilliant Chicago bookkeeper unable to demonstrate his mastery of economics by doing what he promised, before he was allowed to hit the ground running three years ago
Abi his claim of being a master strategist is just his usual balablu bulaba empty barrel talks?
How much is petrol today? Has Tinubu crashed it below N197?
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.
Otunski: Tinubu a man who cherishes politicking over and above governance.
Is that because he is completely and totally clueless about governance?
Is he successful because most Nigerians are too engrossed with tribalistic zoning and sharing the national cake of corruption to care about government services and utilities, provided by well paid civil servants, out of the taxes paid by the people and received on their behalf
samwash: What was the need of conducting the primaries the first place, when the party hierarchy can just hand pick whosoever want to represent the party in various positions. Why waste the funds and the ppls time.
Do APC ever have an ideology, what was ideal of the founding fathers other than to grab the power and loot the resources of the state. Is Tinubu not among the founder of the APC.
APC has a progressive ideology and Tinubu's ACN was a founding member.
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
Ofunaofu: This is to further tell you that Tinubu, the NADECO wannabe was never a democrat
He only turned to NADECO after his job search from Abacha failed.
anonimi: My dad, victim of complex conspiracy – Kola Abiola
What role did Bola Tinubu play in all of these?
At the very beginning, he was part of the Yar’Adua PF group from Jos. He was a senator then, and as far as the group went, we related. The crisis started post-election. When Abacha came, one of the things he wanted to do was to be the administrator for Lagos.
That is Tinubu?
Yes. I am sure you have seen pictures of him and my dad. He was hoping that there would be civilian administrators like we had under IBB but Abacha said no, that he was going to have military administrators. So he (Tinubu) said okay, in that case, can I be a deputy administrator? But Abacha said that there wouldn’t be deputies. Then he wanted the post of a commissioner.
He wanted to be a commissioner?
Yes. Then it was a choice between him and someone very close to Jakande who has passed on now. I can’t remember his name, but because Babagana was already in the government, that guy was picked as commissioner. But really, Senator Tinubu had lost out already.
Was Tinubu very close to MKO?
Yes, he was close enough. He and Adeniyi Adele, a very good guy, were close to my father. In fact, Adeniyi was closer to my father and more dedicated to the process than anyone of them. When my documentary comes out, you will see Tinubu’s take on issues. So once he lost out, automatically, he became a NADECO member and Adeniyi was incarcerated.
Scamburster: Oga go find something doing, stop constituting nuisance everytime with this your boring write up.
If you are not the one constituting nuisance with your boring laziness, why don't you point out the falsehood in what you read
chuksikem: What exactly is peter obi doing in Anambra state?
Am confused to say the least, please someone should tell me because the anambra i visited has degenerated so much,
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chuksikem: Was in awka some days back ,its really shameful, my heart bleeds for my state, from amansea to awka is still the same, pothole riddled roads, non-functioning street lights, refuse littering the entire state capital from arroma junction down to Ziks avenue, ,arthur eze,unizik junction,court road,udoka housing estate etc are still the same, no changes at all, the state capital still looks like a glorified village,
Civil servants and pensioners are been owed 3 MONTHS salary, so many abandoned projects yet the woman sounding governor is always in abuja 24/7.
Please peter obi's handlers on nl should please enlighten us,
A state that has the highest number of successful human beings in the entire black nation, it hurts,
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.
Klington: Obi's smart exit buried that joke of a party. Obi is the smartest politician ever in the history of humanity. He's the real master strategist.
The same clueless chap that his own protege kicked out of APGA in 2014 before Atiku rescued him from political wilderness five years later?
Smartest indeed.
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.
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