QuinQ: Here's what the OP wrote: "People will quote you love. They will quote you compatibility. They will quote you chemistry. Nobody will quote you school fees."
it is not that all those other things are not important, it is that practical things like school fees and house rent are very rarely considered. It is always all about "love" - which by the way also changes just like money!
Point is, as you are looking at "love" and "chemistry", also be looking at the eventual financial aspects of the union!
You are so right on this point of love changes just like financial circumstances change.
The pressures on love and financial stability would be reduced if we expect our local and state government legislators and chairmen/governors to prioritise the IGR and budget for employment of teachers to make education free for all children.
It’s quite sad that all the 150 governors in the last 27 years have failed to leverage federal matching funds through UBEC that was established in 1999 by Obasanjo/ Atiku administration to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education.
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.
NUT commends Oyo over recruitment of 19,500 teachers
The Nigeria Union of Teachers, Oyo State, has commended Governor Seyi Makinde-led government for recruiting 19,500 teachers in five years.
The union, in a statement signed by the NUT Chairman, Oladimeji Raji and the Secretary, Salami Olukayode, noted that the appointment of 5,000 teachers in his first term and 14,500 since the inception of his second term into the state primary and secondary schools was noteworthy.
The union said the ripple effects of the recruitment were that it would address the problems of inadequate manpower in the education sector and promote teaching and learning.
The statement read, “Your disposition towards turning the tide of the education system of Oyo State remains unprecedented and unmatched not only in the annals of recruitment history of our dear state in recent times but also across the entire 36 states of the Federation including the Federal Capital Territory.
“Your Excellency Sir, your achievements in the education sector since assumption of office particularly, on the successful recruitment of over 14,000 qualified teaching professionals and about 3,500 non- teaching personnel, aside from an appreciative number of caregivers is a clear cut and a perfect reflection of your results-oriented style of leadership aimed at providing free, qualitative and quantitative education to the amiable citizens of Oyo State. This gesture shall, without doubt, have a significant touch in our classroom and as well enhance educational service delivery to our school children.”
So why do we pay taxes and have taxes collected on our behalf from companies, to brag about IGR growth without any interest in how many more civil servants are employed to improve free education for all children and water supply to all households
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.’
muyico: Poor man wife No fit demand all dis tinz u mentioned here
Na so o.
This must be why the thread below says that N30 million per year feels like survival in this hyperinflation economy of the political master strategist who is ruining Nigeria with balablu bulaba propaganda lies since 2023.
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.”
Mynd44: It doesn't matter. The property is not his to sell, the land will revert to the wife and the buyer can drag the criminal man for his money back.
All of this is assuming the woman is ready to walk away from her (sham of a) marriage.
The question you replied to matters, since it raises the possibility of the whole story being a lie to generate traffic as a clickbait.
The woman may not have to walk away from the marriage, if he shows enough remorse after he has already served his punishment for the crime. There are several reasons why walking away may not be a viable option.
Who else is there to vote for, since Amupitan’s INEC and Wike’s courts won’t allow ADC and Atiku to be on the ballot
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.”
Titopeblog: Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, has confirmed the end of his marriage to his first wife, Halima Nwakaego, while also revealing he is set to remarry.
Bashir and Halima, the daughter of former Jigawa senator Ibrahim Kazaure, got married on November 21, 2020.
timbabng: The headline is meant to be alarming because they know most Nigerians are educated illiterates.
A big chunk of the borrowing was multilateral/bilateral loans. These are project-tied borrowing, so the money may have been approved or drawn down, but projects haven’t yet reached the disbursement stage.
The report also said the budget line for those project-tied loans recorded “zero spending” during the period reviewed, which means the money has not been spent!
Why can't Nigerians read information available online by themselves?!!
The only concern here is that implementation is slow, majorly because of bureaucracy!
Do you think that you are the only person who is smart
IyanAtiEgusi: u suppose plant am for where plenty water dey all year round. u plant am for dry land dey depend solely on rain siddon dey expect am make e fruit quick
If you plant it for where plenty water dey, it won't be as sweet AND firm as the one grown in a LESS wet area.
wallrichy: The way this man used to denge pose as if he's thinking something very serious. I swear, nothing dey that head, just full of saw dust and mucor.........
Is that to say he is only fit to be a Nollywood actor, and not even a local government councillor
So how did smart Lagosians vote him twice and allow him hold the state since 1999 under his lootocracy master plan?
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
If Jagaban of Borgu held smart Lagosians down for 27 years with this modus operandi, then why won't he hold the entire country down with the same format of increasing tax burden, borrowing like crazy without improving government services and utilities accordingly?
As long as he can bribe politicians and buy voters tribalistic and greedy, shortsighted conscience, he is on cruise control to reelection and 3rd term agenda for life president as they have in Cameroon.
"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.
NaijaRoyalty: …Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money
However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”
Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.
He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.
Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.
onatisi: I don't see any single party having the majority win to be declared winner . They are all going to break each other votes . If APC thins their votes are secured ,they better think twice . Nigerians are coming hard for them in 2027
The same way that Nigerians came hard for them in the last FCT local elections and the bye elections in several states?
Why did we not come hard for APC in 2019 and 2023? What has changed about our tribalistic mindset for rotation and zoning for corrupt sharing of the national cake? Are we no longer Stockholm syndrome mumuus who prefer to suffer extreme poverty and insecurity shege under our own clansman/ tribesman than enjoy widespread prosperity, peace and security under someone from another clan/ tribe?
Do you realise that only 10% of us voted in the last election despite the hype around it
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.
Aleister: Holy guacamole. What did I just read? The problem is bigger than I thought.
If Nigeria doesn’t get it right in 2027 by kicking out APChit, then I think it be a downward spiral with the speed of light from then on out.
How will we get it right, with a divided opposition and Amupitan’s INEC and Wike’s courts working overtime to prevent any meaningful opposition to Tinubu’s reelection, prior to his own 3rd term agenda for life president Something that Obasanjo failed to achieve in 2007, when Atiku risked his own political future to lead other democratic heroes in killing the bill at the NASS.
abbey621: Definition of insanity....Doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome. There should be no election unti lproper electoral reforms are passed including makking INEC truly independent. INEC's budget should not come from the government, who appoints INEC chaiman? Why not mandatory electronical counting of votes?
Boycott the entire election, let them be shamed by the intenrational community. Destroy your PVC, stage a true rebellion not the ofutufete cho cho cho una like to dey do online!
Who is stopping you from starting your true rebellion, apart from your cowardly self
onatisi: All these candidates are solid and formidable. This election may likely go to a second round . And that is where the real politics will be . Because there will be negotiations
What are the conditions that will trigger a second round
insidelife22: Between these presidential candidates, who are you voting for next year
I would like to vote Atiku but his party won't be on the ballot as Amupitan's INEC and Wike's courts are hell bent on de-registering them if they can't use factions to break them up, as they did with ADA and Labour Party as well as 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.”
Javid13: To be honest i dont support PBAT..but what has Atiku/Peter Obi said so far on how they will tackle insecurity in Nigeria.
Insecurity is the most pressing issue right now. Make we no jump from Fry Pan to fire. Base on the coming 2027 election, we are about to decide our fate for the next 4years or more. I have already giving up on this administration.
Atiku will do what he and Obasanjo did for eight years of prosperity with less unemployment, less insecurity as well as cheap petrol without debt burden.
Why are you not working with other patriotic Nigerians for a return to this glorious era
Image123 should be kind enough to show them where free food is available, so they can act on Akpabio’s mocking advice to Nigerians below, since Tinubu and APC are too busy stealing our money to bother about creating promised jobs for people to earn a living in dignity.
Omicronvaccine: Wherever You See Free Food, Eat It - Nigerian Senate President, Senator Akpabio Advises Nigerians
saintopus: The judiciary is one of the most important areas of Nigeria that needs reforms.
A new president in Nigeria 🇳🇬 should as a matter of utmost importance to reform the country through reforming the judiciary.
The reforms are urgently needed since APC and Wike have destroyed confidence in the courts.
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.”
What can he and his fellow impotent ADC politicians do to Tinubu, Amupitan and Wike’s courts that are determined to keep him out of the election process
Gotocourt: I urge each and everyone of you to remain calm and focus on the bigger picture which is the presidential election.
Nigeria will be OK!
Real comradeship 🙌
How can our country be okay with tingod dictators like Obi and Aisha yesufu
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.
Dreal1247: To be very sincere, though we want the power to shift from the failed government of Tinubu, but I the marriage of Obi and Kwakwanso is a marriage already pregnant with strange children which time will reveal their true identity. Kwakwanso just sees Obedient Movement as a good vehicle to actualize his plans. I'm not seeing them running on the same ideology.
What are the elements of governance ideology for Obidients
What is their view on deregulation and privatisation?
What is their expectation for free education of all children, water supply etc?
GreenCovering: I know this is political but Jagaban has dragged on for too long on this particular subject matter while the lives of defenceless citizens keep getting waisted.
Please what is political about the allegation of Lagos not signing up for Amotekun? Are you calling Makinde a liar like Tinubu is known for
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.
dre11: He said, “We know how we established Amotkeun. The Speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly is here. We passed a common law in the whole of the Southwest. The whole Houses of Assembly in all states in the Southwest passed the law, and that led to the creation of Amotekun. The only state that didn’t create Amotekun is Lagos State, and we know it is because their boss didn’t want Amotekun.
How true is this allegation against the Jagaban of Borgu, who is the Lagos landlord with its master plan for increasing revenue ad infinitum, without commensurate improvement in government services and common utilities
Maitunbi: Reality humbles everyone eventually. I see all these women who throw their weight around all the time.. because perhaps they married one rich man or so... Life is a leveller.
Why is this reality of our collective foolishness yet to humble us all, after 66 years of independence?
The foolishness of tribalistic and clannish zoning and rotation for turn by turn looting and corruption.
Romance › Re: No Money, No Marriage by anonimi: 4:46am On May 30
