Thankfully, Tinubu and All Promises Cancelled, APC have given us renewed hope for N70 petrol from NNPC refineries since 2015.
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anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
Stanna2025: Bola Tinubu is a threat to the life of all good Nigerians. Bola must not be allowed to rig the 2027 election else hell will be a better place than Nigeria. God forbid BATthings
Tinubu does not have to rig the elections. Obi is doing it for him, just like he did in 2023, with 100% SE votes indirectly helping Tinubu get his turn to continue APC extreme poverty shege, which was fraudulently packaged as change in 2015.
This was four years after Tinubu called Buhari expired.
Will petrol price ease to below N197, in fulfilment of Tinubu’s promise to crash the price before he was allowed to grab power and hit the ground running with it like a headless pig 🐖
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.
DeepSight: What are you suggesting here, that it is reasonable to ask applicants to go back to their countries and apply from there? To my knowledge the very things that entitle some categories of people to apply often require some length of presence in the US.
I am not suggesting anything other than the question asked, to ensure the public is not misled about applicants and holders.
armyofone: They will get there na, it is small small. One step forward 5 steps backwards
Do we have anything remotely similar to American Green Card or other European migration plans in Nigeria or other African countries? Do Asian countries have any similar policies?
So who is taking one step forward and five steps backward here and how precisely
DeepSight: My view is that the development issues most of Africa is passing through are quite to be expected given the myriad factors I have oft pointed out and will naturally even themselves out with time.
But if I hear what you are saying here correctly, am I right to say that you are saying that we expect human rights which are alien to us from white people, while not expecting same from Asians?
Claim is more representative than expect, in this context.
If our efforts are not on reducing our tribalistic tendencies to zone and rotate offices for sharing the national cake of corruption, but rather on how racism prevents us from having FULL benefits of human rights and social justice evolution in oyinbo societies, then how can our underdevelopment issues naturally even themselves out with time?
Why did you not wait for time to naturally even out the racial outburst of your European MD in the SA company, instead of escalating it and WORKING through procedures for redress, which led to his dismissal?
Atiku has won the election in ADC anf can pick whomever as his running mate
Cant you 'read the room' and see that Atiku is more accepted by the North as TINUBU is Hated in the South?
AMINDA is still very much on point, with his calculations.
How you reason in that TINUBU coven is pathetic.
Commonsense is far from you guys .
Commonsense should tell you that Atiku and ADC won’t be on the ballot.
Amupitan’s INEC and Wike’s courts have done well so far in ensuring they are not on the ballot next year.
It’s surprising how you can’t read the room on this issue.
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.”
Mrexcell: Obi is neither a toxic nor a selfish politician like wike and tinubu who both believed in completing destroying everything just to get their way in other to be in total control of a state and country obi left apga when his relationship with obiano began to get toxic he left so that obiano can govern anambra state in peace without distraction only a very selfless politician will do such.
Would you describe Atiku as a similarly selfless politician, who lost his golden opportunity to make Obasanjo a one term president in 2003, and risked his political future in 2007 by leading other democratic heroes to kill the bill for 3rd term agenda of life president
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.
DeepSight: In apartheid South Africa, Indians ranked above blacks.
In a company I once worked in, the European MD said in a management meeting that Europeans should be top level staff, Asians middle level and Nigerians bottom level. I escalated as Head of Legal and had him fired for that statement.
It’s nice that you got him fired for being loud about something that happens whether people are loud about it or not.
As I imagine you understand, such one off reprisals won’t change the fact that we Africans have made ourselves the lowest of the low in the world due to our unevolved tribalistic mindset of using zoning and rotation to share the national cake of corruption in local, state and federal governments in the legislative and executive branches.
The irony of it all is our entitlement mindset to the fruits of a better society built by oyinbos’ evolved human rights culture. Something that we don’t try with Asians, who are yet to evolve as much in human rights and social justice system.
Mrexcell: A leopard can never change it's colors atiku and tinibu are birds of same feathers both believes in using money to win their elections. Obi is a very wise man that forsaw all these befor hand and did the needful immediately.
A wise man who got kicked out of APGA by his protégé Obiano in 2014, before Atiku rescued him from his political wilderness
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.
Lordhanzo: okay he won’t win. Then why the rigging ? Shows atiku is just as useless as tinubu
People supporting atiku all them prof yusuf, malami, David mark, renewals, babachir lawal. And other currupt entities in adc are just greedy disgruntled politicians seeking to replace corruption with corruption. Nothing new there. Same political fools
Only ndc presents hope .
The type of hope presented below by the propagandist hypocrite who wants the job of president handed over to him
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.
Kingozymandias: Tinubu is getting kicked out next year and nothing can change that. You cant distract us, try more tactics but we are not falling for any of them our focus is kicking out the useless incompetent Tinubu in 2027.
Nigerians have never been this united since MKO. Hatred for Tinubu has united is across religion and tribe. We won't be distracted.
Bring a 100 kingmitchy or a 100 stories on how NDC is drilling oil wells. We won't be distracted We want Tinubu gone next year
Tinubu is going nowhere next year, with the master strategist having successfully divided the opposition with the help of that clumsy Atiku interview, which provided the excuse for Obi and Kwankwaso to bolt out of a united opposition needed to dislodge the worst president in Nigeria.
Kwankwaso is obviously eyeing 2031, hoping that Tinubu will not succeed with a 3rd term, like Obasanjo who failed to get it in 2007. I hope he won't be disappointed like Eng. Funsho Williams, who was finally killed before the 2007 election that then unknown Fashola won,
Do you think that Kwankwaso is the new Utomi? The unstable, unprincipled, untrustworthy, party-hopping character that was ADC's first presidential candidate in 2007.
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
That is what you get with Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC and Wike's compromised courts.
How did we get here? How do we get ourselves out of this quagmire
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.”
jaxxy: The problem here is that u can vote tinubu out without knowing who u are voting in. There is not vote for out or who u dont want. There is only a vote for IN meaning who u want.
So its only who do they want IN that will determine if they are voting tinubu out.
Are you paraphrasing what Soludo said in 2023 below
jameshankss: Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
givedemwotowoto: NW is not going to give Tinubu the number of votes he got in 2023 with Buhari gone and Kwankwaso now in serious power play
Northern leaders and business moguls will be secretly backing Kwankwaso knowing this contest is really between PO/Kwankwaso vs Atiku
Among the 3 major candidates, who do you think will get the biggest financial backing from moguls like Dangote? Who do you think gave the green light for Kwankwaso to work with PO?
Whichever way, the master strategist in Aso Rock will continue next year against a divided opposition where everyone wants to be president, including Obi who wants it handed over to him on a platter of gold, filled with his propaganda lies.
Kwakwanso is the new Utomi, obviously. The unprincipled, unreliable, untrustworthy, party-hopping Utomi that was incidentally ADC's first presidential candidate in 2007. The same year that Obasanjo's 3rd term agenda failed woefully, thanks to Atiku leading democratic heroes to kill the bill.
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
Nwaikpe: Stop playing. People who never see water, drink, food, chop, or a road to travel, they buy aircraft.
Partner as a subsidiary of Ibom Air, for proper management, or simply fail as Enugu Air
Do Akwa Ibom cities and towns have water supply to all households before the government prioritised Ibom Air? Abi they are drinking water from shitty boreholes like most Nigerians
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.’
SmartPolician: Congratulations to them, but I think state governors should be investing in power than airlines. The likes of Air Peace are wailing about how unprofitable the industry is and state governors are still jumping into the business
State as well as local and federal governments have no business running businesses.
Governments should employ well paid civil servants to provide enabling environment of law and order, security as well as basic services and common utilities like water and electricity supply, free education for all children etc.
What is the record of Bayelsa state government in these basics
How does Dangote refinery that was licensed by PDP prosperity politicians of deregulation and privatisation policies, compare with NNPC refineries?
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? @ @ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
Wickedfacts: Just like many of the people you ruled as Governor prefer to kpai in Lagos than go back to the East.
As a matter of fact, under Peter Obi as Governor of Anambra, when Fashola deported beggars to Onitsha, they said Fashola wanted them to die in the Anambra.
Living in Anambra under Peter Obi was a death sentence.
Is that the same way many Lagoisans ruined by Tinubu's a-looter tax master plan prefer to kpai in the abroad instead of dying from water borne diseases in the absence of pipe borne water after 27 years of increasing budget 100 times?
What else is Tinubu doing with Lagos trillions annually apart from stealing it to buy loyalty of politicians and voters for his grip on power forever
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.
Afriifa: This is sad reality. Is not politics. Nigerians can endure and the harshest community anywhere in the World than return home. Sometimes, this decision is because they fear returning with nothing.
Is that also true for SE people who can't return to the beautiful Anambra that Obi built with water supply, free education, security, law & order etc
anonimi: Anambra doctors call off strike after 13 months February 28, 2012
After over a year of down tools, Anambra State Government employed medical doctors have finally called of strike. According to Dr. Emma Ekwesianya, Chairman Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), the striking doctors decided to pick up tools again because of the plight of the ordinary people in the societ. “It is true, we have called off the strike. We have just signed the agreement with government about an hour ago. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) signed for the government. A technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu was set up to execute the agreement.” He confirmed.
“We decided to take the 60 per cent offered by government because of our people. Government has been rigid and we do not want to continue with the rigidity of government. We are serving the people, not government and our people are suffering.” Speaking further, Ekwesianya, revealed that a technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu had also been set up by the association to see to the implementation of the agreement with government sequel to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peter Obi-led government on Monday.
Chief Medical Director, Anambra State University Teaching Hospital (ASUTH), Amaku, Awka, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor also confirmed the new development: “Well I’m happy to tell you that the strike has been amicably resolved, even though, like you said, it’s been a prolonged one but suffice it to say that it has been resolved and the doctors have resumed work.” “The call off was yesterday (Sunday). The doctors had some negotiations and held their congress yesterday, during which they agreed to call off the strike. So they resumed duty today. They are in their clinic. Well, I was not privy to the agreement but I will say that our representatives were satisfied with the arrangement, hence they decided to call off the strike.” He disclosed.
cococandy: I’ll give you an example from healthcare. Historically, most medical studies have been done with white patients in mind. A lot of skin diseases do not have adequate representation in black populations.
Therefore, we are training doctors that can identify certain dermatological conditions on white people but can’t in black patients. We can’t blame them because that’s who they learned to treat. But we can’t let ourselves keep being disadvantaged.
We have black psychiatrists that don’t under black struggles. The stories they hear about black families don’t make sense to them and they can’t apply a black patient’s background into perspective when treating them.
Black moms are 3x more likely to die in childbirth because conditions and social determinants of health that disproportionately affect us are not well understood by white healthcare providers.
For this reason, a platform called “find a black doctor” where black patients can go and search for black doctors was created. It’s supposed to help black patients find healthcare providers who they feel might be more understanding of their background and specific experiences that contribute to their medical conditions.
A white dermatologist is suing this “find a black doctor” platform because he feels it discriminates against him as a white provider. Bear in mind he most likely cannot differentiate between mere ashiness in a black patient versus true cyanosis as a result of oxygen deprivation. Cyanosis does not present as a bluish hue on black skin as it does on white skin. Instead the patient will appear gray. White doctors who aren’t culturally competent can’t tell the difference.
Another example was when a black woman once had a psych evaluation placed on her simply because she was slapping her scalp at her doctor’s office. When asked afterwards, she said she was simply scratching her braids with the gentle slaps because she didn’t want to mess up her hair. I as a black woman will immediately recognize what that is, if a woman does it in my presence. An old white man will not. That’s why representation matters.
What we need is for people to lay off the measures that have been put in place to correct these historical and presently ongoing problems. To stop calling it reverse racism because that’s not a thing.
And we need under-educated black people to stop aligning with racists to undermine the efforts.
My apologies for not indicating that WE means Nigerians, since this is nairaland.
Meanwhile, is it not hypocrisy for tribalistic Nigerians to talk about racist whites? Do whites use zoning and rotation of public office to justify sharing the national cake of corruption at local, state and federal levels
Are whites as racist to Asians as they are to blacks? If they are less racist to them, does it have to do with Asian countries ranking being much higher than that of African countries
omenka: The same way it is sad seeing people support Kanu despite the atrocities (murders, cannibalism, rapes, theft, arson, kidnappings, etc) committed by his brain-children (IPOB, ESN).
Use your own tongue to count your teeth.
Why is Kanu in jail while terrorists, kidnappers, bandits and other criminals are pampered by Jagaban of Borgu and his Arewa Poverty Congress, APC
EmmyMaestro: A Borno State indigene, Enoch Yohanna, has alleged that repentant Boko Haram members are given ₦3 million and placed on a monthly salary after completing rehabilitation under government programmes.
He made the claims during a public event, expressing anger over what he described as the use of taxpayers’ money to support individuals formerly involved in insurgency activities.
Allegations on Rehabilitation System
According to him, individuals who previously participated in insurgency are allegedly taken through a structured rehabilitation process before being reintegrated into society.
He claimed that the process involves categorising participants based on their level of involvement and exposure during the insurgency period.
Claims on Reintegration Process
He further alleged that some rehabilitated individuals are integrated into community security arrangements, while others are deployed for different assignments under government supervision.
In his words: “Boko haram are being rehabilitated, Now, what they do after rehabilitation, they fill form, ask them questions on how many people have they k!lled. If they k!ll 50, they have there are own class. If you have never k!lled, you stay there one month. If you k!ll small number, two months. If you kill many, six months. Which type of ammunition have you used?
These are the people that are given payoff of N3 million and monthly salary of N50, 000. I am revealing this. After been rehabilitated and cannot live without using g$ns, the government will provide gun for you as a civilian JTF. You all know they are here in Abuja. Most of them are repented Boko Haram. Some of them that cannot stay in the society, they are being exported to Algeria to go and and do illegal gold mining in Algeria. and be paid. If they sustain gunshots, they are going to be transported back to Maiduguri and treated in University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital through the government of Borno state.
The civilian JTFs. Go to Zamfara, they are there. The government of Zamfara is paying the government of Borno N70, 000. The government of Borno is paying them N50, 000, meaning it is a job. It is a business. It is not a crime to start a business if the business is being recognised by our government.
The business I am craving for is to start my terror!sm. I am not going to terror!ze anybody. I am going to fight back. It has been so painful that the k!llers of my dad is being paid with taxpayers money. The abductors of our wives, our childre, our sister are being paid with taxpayers money. They drive luxury cars with escorts. There is one man that slaughtered 96 people a day, now he is driving hilux. His name is Adamu. I am saying this., I do not care. I am ready to d!e because what is the life”
The grave dangers you never knew about the so-called rehabilitated or repentant Boko Haram finally revealed from the horse’s mouth. And it’s bigger than anybody could have imagined. pic.twitter.com/oKjtd5yzqd
DeepSight: MODERN EXAMPLES (POST CIVIL RIGHTS ACT)
While the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 dismantled de jure (legal) segregation, the modern era since 1970 has seen the emergence of policies, institutional practices, and state-supported actions that have continued to disproportionately hinder the economic, social, and political progress of Black Americans.
Here are ten prominent instances from the modern era:
1. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 (The 100-to-1 Sentencing Disparity)
Passed by Congress during the "War on Drugs," this federal legislation established a massive sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Possession of just five grams of crack (more prevalent in lower-income Black communities) triggered a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison, while it required 500 grams of powder cocaine (more prevalent in wealthier white communities) to trigger the same sentence. This state policy fueled mass incarceration and decimated generations of Black families and local economies.
2. State-Sanctioned "Stop-and-Frisk" Policies
In the 1990s and 2000s, municipal governments—most notably in New York City—instituted aggressive policing policies that permitted officers to detain and search pedestrians based on vague standards of "reasonable suspicion." Federal court data later revealed that the overwhelming majority of those stopped were innocent Black and Latino men. The policy institutionalized racial profiling, disrupted daily life, and created systemic barriers to employment and education through arbitrary misdemeanor arrests.
3. Predatory Subprime Lending and Regulatory Failure (Pre-2008 Financial Crisis)
During the 2000s housing boom, federal regulators (including the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) failed to police discriminatory marketing by major financial institutions. Banks intentionally targeted stable Black neighborhoods with high-fee, high-risk subprime mortgages, even when the borrowers qualified for safer prime loans. When the market crashed in 2008, it triggered the largest loss of generational wealth for Black Americans in modern history.
4. Modern Voter Suppression Laws and the Gutting of the Voting Rights Act (2013–Present)
Following the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down the federal oversight provision of the Voting Rights Act, dozens of state legislatures passed restrictive voting laws. These state-level policies included strict photo ID requirements, the purging of voter rolls, and the closure of polling places in predominantly Black precincts. Federal courts later found some of these laws, such as North Carolina's 2013 omnibus election law, targeted Black voters "with almost surgical precision."
5. Municipal Revenue Generation Through Predatory Fines (The Ferguson Model)
As highlighted by a 2015 U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Ferguson, Missouri, local municipalities across the country shifted toward using their police departments and court systems as revenue-generating entities. City policies mandated aggressive ticketing and fine collection for minor municipal code violations, disproportionately targeting Black residents. Failure to pay led to arrest warrants, trapping low-income individuals in a cycle of debt and court-ordered poverty.
6. The Judicial Architecture of Qualified Immunity
Though originally introduced in 1967, the modern, highly restrictive framework of qualified immunity was solidified by the Supreme Court in the 1980s (Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 1982) and expanded in subsequent decades. This judicially created doctrine protects state actors, particularly law enforcement officers, from liability in civil lawsuits unless they violate "clearly established" law. In practice, federal courts have used it to shield officers from financial accountability for excessive force, leaving Black victims of police brutality with little recourse for justice.
7. Discriminatory Administration of COVID-19 Relief (The Paycheck Protection Program, 2020)
When the federal government launched the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to save small businesses during the pandemic, the Small Business Administration channeled the funds through mainstream banks rather than community lenders. Because of historical biases and banking deserts, Black-owned businesses lacked established relationships with these major institutions. Academic and federal audits revealed that Black applicants were disproportionately denied or delayed in receiving aid, causing a higher rate of permanent business closures in Black communities.
8. The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
The largest crime bill in U.S. history, signed into federal law in 1994, provided billions of dollars in federal funding to states to build prisons and hire more officers, provided that the states passed "truth-in-sentencing" laws to keep inmates locked up longer. The policy heavily incentivized states to increase incarceration rates and eliminate parole opportunities, which disproportionately removed Black men from the workforce and community development.
9. Structural Inequity in State Public School Funding Formulas
Throughout the modern era, the majority of U.S. states have continued to rely heavily on local property taxes to fund public education. Because historical federal policies (like redlining) depressed property values in Black neighborhoods, this state-approved funding mechanism guarantees that schools serving Black children receive billions of dollars less in funding annually than schools serving white children, entrenching educational and economic inequality.
10. Environmental Racism and State Infrastructure Planning
State and federal agencies have routinely approved the placement of chemical plants, toxic waste sites, and heavy industrial infrastructure in or adjacent to historic Black communities. A prominent modern example is "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana, where successive state administrations granted permits to dozens of petrochemical plants along a 100-mile stretch of the Mississippi River populated largely by Black residents, leading to catastrophic health outcomes and plummeting property values.
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What useful lessons for actionable remedial plans can we draw from this
P.S.:
Edited to indicate that we means Nigerians/Africans.
Our population has grown in leaps and bounds since 2023
One of the many failures of A-looter Propaganda Congress, APC is the non conduct of census in the last decade. Buhari failed to do it in 2016 and Tinubu is failing to do it this year.
The last time we had a census was in 2006 under the PDP administration of Obasanjo, the administration that laid a solid foundation for prosperity by using deregulation and privatisation policies
SmartPolician: He should give them additional 500 million!
Mbah has spent 3 years in office. Enugu Rangers have won the trophy twice under his watch. That man leaves a Midas touch to everything he does.
Congratulations to Enugu Rangers.
How has his Midas touch manifested in the free education of all Enugu state children? Has he employed up to 19,500 teachers like Makinde did? How much has he obtained with matching funds, from UBEC that was established by progressive Obasanjo/Atiku PDP administration to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all Nigerian children.
Abi he is stuck with less than 5% schools owned by government, like Lagos state after 27 years of Tinubu;s lootocracy master plan for higher tax burden on people
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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