adioolayi: Omoyele Sowore of the AAC is the answer...if you really want the change. Vote and canvass for him
He has some utility as an activist and maybe even as a lawmaker but he would be a complete failure in executive office as LGA chairman, governor or president.
Activism is not the same thing as political leadership. Mahatma Gandhi and MLK understood their limitations.
Princedapace: Do u blame them? Nope, our leaders in black nations are the worse thing ever.
People are looking for how to escape poverty. Life is hard, nigeria is a mess. A country so blessed but devoid of truth. We have oil and gas in abundant but we cant even buy our own fuel well or have electricity. It is a shame, Nigeria can not be fixed. If I were u, dont procreate another creature. The country is finished. Politicians dey waste una money on imported side chicks.
If we are not just as bad then why do we allow these worst thing ever leaders looters to emerge from among us
BlakKluKluxKlan: Tinubu has no equal in political sagacity and master stroke in Nigeria. He is so confident of a landslide victory such that he is already planing beyond 2027.
Why do you think he is unable to demonstrate his sagacity and master stroke in the provision of government services and utilities to everyone?
Do you think that is because intelligent people like blakKKK are not interested in such basic things, which includes peace, law and order that is applicable to all?
Are you not interested in governance because you would be deprived of your freedom to blame white racists for the failures of black societies
adioolayi: Life has never been better. Poor electricity infrastructure from then till date.. Massive unemployment rate from then till date Lack of access to basic health care from them till date Poor road infrastructure (APC doing some cosmetics through) from then till date Nigerians are getting poorer from then till date.
They are all thieves and nonsense leaders!
Why are you not ashamed to let only thieves and nonsense leaders emerge from among your people?
When was the last time you reviewed your comparatives
- Good, better, best - Bad, worse, worst
thisweekng: The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.
He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.
He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.
“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.
“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.” Private sector to drive the economy
onuman: Another bloodbath. Yet Nigeria's politicians pretend that all is well with Nigeria.
Let the bandits and Boko haram have their Arewa Islamic Republic for the 12 sharia states in northern Nigeria, so that rest of Nigeria will determine how to either live in one country or dissolve into many new countries.
There are countries with 200,000 population at the UN.
What did your own senators and representatives tell you about their failure to include secession clause in the five amendments to the 1999 constitution till date?
Did they assure you that they would ensure it is included in the ongoing 6th amendment to the constitution
Galactics: The terrorists north won't protest against this one. Na Iran matter be their problem.
How much protests have the terrorists south done against attacks here
What does hypocrisy mean to you?
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
What party are you working with to get us back to PDP’s widespread prosperity years, driven by deregulation and privatisation policies that gave us peace without debt burden like we have now under clueless, incompetent and corrupt All Promises Cancelled, APC?
BlakKluKluxKlan: Trust Peter Obi to be running high blood pressure already. This is his worst nightmare.
He may jump ship to NDC soon.
If Utomi is not in NDC waiting to step down for him like he did in 2023 with the communist LP labourers camp, then who do you expect to step down for him in NDC?
It’s quite remarkable that Utomi was the first presidential candidate of ADC several years ago.
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.
Racoon: This tells about how they rate orthodox education down there.
They preferred to sponsor religious pilgrimage than early child education. Hence hypnotizing and preparing them as potential fanatics in future
What do we now prefer in the south since we no longer prioritise our commonwealth for the employment of well paid professional teachers and other workers to make education free for all children in schools with adequate classrooms, libraries, labs, playgrounds etc.
Do you know of any southern governor who has recruited up to 19,500 teachers like Makinde did in Oyo State in just five years, even though they are not enough for the millions of school age children in the state?
Do you know any southern state where public schools are more than 5% of all schools, like the situation in Tinubu master plan Lagos state of 27 years of 100 times IGR and budget increase?
Why have southern states and LGAs failed to use the 27 year old PDP established federal funding mechanism of UBEC to achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children?
Do you think that our obsessive comparison with northern states gives us a false sense of achievement when we are in fact regressing
The Nigerian economy grew by leaps and bounds in his eight years as president, driven by deregulation and privatisation policies of his businessman VP.
The telecom sector boom, sale of NNPC refineries and the Virgin Atlantic acquisition of Nigerian Air carrier rights are examples of how PDP grew employment without borrowing excessively as APC is doing since 2015.
anonimi: How Indorama sustains manufacturers, boosts Nigeria’s FX earnings
Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has emerged as a major value creator in the Nigerian economy. It is responsible for the survival, growth and sustenance of many manufacturing companies in Nigeria today. A large number of plastic and allied firms depend on the Eleme-based company for petrochemical resins (or polymer resins) which serve as their raw materials.
The petrochemical company is just one of the several subsidiaries of Indorama-Nigeria Group, which also comprises Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Indorama PET Nigeria Limited, and Indorama Port Operations.
Since Indorama Corporation of Indonesia became core investor in the old Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) in 2006 through privatisation programme of the Federal Government, the group has become a game changer in the Nigerian economy.
The petrochemical company has solved the major challenge facing a number of manufacturers— poor access to raw materials. Rather than scramble for foreign exchange to import inputs, the company ensures that manufacturers have access to their critical raw materials, enabling them to save costs and improve margins.
The major resins used by plastic and allied companies are polyethylene and polypropylene. Indorama produces about 45 grades of these products for various industries. About 600 of such companies in Nigeria depend on IEPL for their survival. They are estimated to have over 90,000 workers.
Amotolongbo: Moreover, many Yoruba people believed Obasanjo betrayed Yoruba by declaring Sheu Shagari, the northerner the winner of the 1979 election instead of Obafemi Awolowo
How is Obasanjo a worse betrayer of Yorubas than Tinubu is
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.
Did Bola Ige’s murder help Obasanjo capture the south west apart from Lagos state? Obasanjo made the most important suspect Omisore, a senator from Agodi prison, before the redeemed saints of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC made him their National Secretary.
Do you think that the immunity and impunity for the killers of Obasanjo’s AGF, inspire those who killed Engr. Funsho Williams and Dipo Dinah in the run up to the 2007 election in Lagos and the 2011 election in Ogun
Funsho Williams was the hugely popular AD presumptive 1999 candidate before Tinubu begged Yoruba NADECO people for the ticket because he funded them with his Chicago business money.
How many of Tinubu’s 1999 campaign promises do you think he has fulfilled, after 27 years of his lootocracy TAX master plan that has raised IGR and budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion?
swaggerjack: Reno Omokri: I Challenge Tinubu To Prove If He Was Not A Drug Lord In Chicago
huptin: One surprising fact is that since 1999 Nigeria's population has been said to have increased by over 30% but the number of voters remain.
Rigging was easier until the last election in 2023.
Our apathy to democracy, politics and governance is legendary and self defeating.
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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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.
Left Africa to go and touch a stone in the Middle East🤣😂🤣😂
Look at the effort he invested just to touch a non living thing!
It shall never be well with all those that brought this religion to Africa, and to those ancestors that accepted it, they shall never rest in their graves!
How were you brainwashed to such extent!
Look at the level of mental slavery that makes people pay increasing taxes and even subsidies to government without getting improved services and utilities?
PigTormentor: Most of you don't read and know what's really going on in your country. You just enjoy complaining and spreading rumors. Oil is traded in international market in dollars. A lot of the oil being produced now have already been sold or allocated to pay for loans taken years ago. Also, the oil companies are also entitled to certain portions of whatever they produced. So Tinubu cannot just say that we must sell to Dangote cheap and forgo previous agreements. It's more complicated than just waking up and tell them to sell to Dangote cheap.
Oil already sold or allocated to pay for loans taken years ago, or recently by city boy using SPV accounts
Did you actually say that most of us don’t read?
ijustdey: Nigeria will pay an interest of 11.85 percent per annum on the $3.3 billion “pre-export finance facility” (PxF) facilitated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Ltd and arranged by Afrexim Bank, TheCable can report.
Until now, the fine details of the transaction, which has a five-year tenor, had been withheld by all parties involved.
A similar cocoa-backed $800 million facility arranged for Ghana by its cocoa marketing board attracts an interest of 8 percent per annum.
Bilateral lenders, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), would typically charge 1-3 percent with a longer tenor.
In the details seen by TheCable, Nigeria pledged a total of 164.25 million barrels of crude oil — at 90,000 barrels per day — starting from 2024 to repay the loan through Project Gazelle Funding Ltd, an “orphan” special purpose vehicle (SPV) incorporated in Bahamas for the PxF.
Effectively, the NNPC has pledged 38.58 percent of five years’ worth of tax and royalty oil to secure the loan. > > > ‘DOLLAR LIQUIDITY TO STABILISE THE NAIRA’
The national oil company announced in August 2023 that the PxF was to support the federal government “in its ongoing fiscal and monetary policy reforms aimed at stabilizing the exchange rate market”, describing it as “a relief for the naira”.
It called the facility “crude oil repayment” with an upfront cash loan “against proceeds from a limited amount of future crude oil production”.
At the time, the dollar exchanged for an average of N775 in the official market and N885 on the streets.
The rates have now moved to N1,035/$ (official) and N1,230/$ (parallel).
Image123: Lolz, this one doesn't know that if government didn't want it to work, it wouldn't work.
Your heros and mentors predicted that it would never work, same way they said the coastal road would never pass Lagos.
Are his mentors running government since 2015?
Did his mentors predict that petrol should NEVER cost more than N70?
Who are your own mentors
The one who promised to crash petrol price in January 2023 at his Abeokuta campaign rally? The time that petrol was N197 o.
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.
SmartPolician: Tinubu did absolutely nothing; Alhaji Aliko Dangote singlehandedly saved this country.
If not for Dangote, these importers would be roasting our balls by now using the war as an excuse.
We remember that PDP licensed the private refinery after APC and their labour union communist friends frustrated the 2007 sale of NNPC refineries.
Dangote refinery was licensed as part of the 2012 fuel sector deregulation and subsidy removal scheme, which APC played politics with, led by Buhari's god of men 2011 running mate- Tunde Bakare.
Onegai: Parents are to blame for this mostly, followed by the school and then by society.
Everything may be lawful but not everything is expedient that's what the Bible says.
In trying to be empathic parents whilst also living our own lives enjoying ourselves, we've dropped the ball.
Lord knows there are things I wanted my children to do, in trying to give them a break to rest from schoolwork, that my mum had to call me about and insist on discipline.
Private schools are run as businesses which means making a profit matters more than quality, so the Admin and owners prioritise paying students over teachers. Teachers also get frustrated and take it out on kids.
Nigerian society is deeply unhealthy.
Is this why enough of us should advocate for our commonwealth to be prioritised for employing well paid teachers to educate every child free, instead of the less than 5% public schools in Lagos after 27 years of increasing IGR and budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion?
Enough advocates until we reach a critical mass that can’t be ignored.
Freshtruth: The 1999 Presidential Election was a fascinating one. Chief Obasanjo, a Yoruba man won as President without winning any South Western (Yoruba) state. He won in the North, South South, and South East.
(Results: OBJ in Blue 💙, Falae in Red ♥️). This shows that a regional party can't win a presidential election - you need national appeal.
Interestingly, voter turnout was higher in 1999 than it is now.
The higher turnout was due to more rigging than anything else.
It was more difficult to rig the 2023 election result, hence the lower turnout than previous elections.
May God rest her soul and grant her eternal peace.
Many thanks for including her age, which is usually missing in other obituary articles, along with details about the cause of death to allow others learn.
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.
success1smyn: Do not misrepresent facts. Obasanjo picked him for vice presidency in 1999. He only begged him in 2003 when Atiku became too ambitious and want to contest against him with the backing of some northern governors in the party. It was reported that Obasanjo knelt down before him to beg him.
Obasanjo begged him to be a spare tyre VP instead of being the Executive Governor of his state, based on Atiku’s generosity, which has characterised the democracy hero of 2007 when Obasanjo’s 3rd term agenda fell apart.
anonimi: ‘How Atiku saved Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president’‘
A new book has revealed how former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, saved ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from near bankruptcy before he emerged president in 1999.
According to the new book, entitled ‘’Too Good to Die: Third Term and the Myth of the Indispensable Man in Africa,’ Atiku made all his resources available for Obasanjo’s presidential campaign.
The book, written by former chairman of National Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Chidi Odinkalu, and Ayisha Osori, author of ‘’Love Does Not Win Elections,” also revealed how Obasanjo beat late Alex Ekwueme to the presidential ticket of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 1999 election.
Quoting an account from Atiku, the authors said the trio of Ibrahim Babangida, Theophilus Danjuma and Abdulsalami Abubakar wanted PDP to adopt Obasanjo as their presidential candidate “because they considered him the best person for the job.”
“Implicit in their position was their belief that they knew how to manipulate Obasanjo and the fact that Obasanjo did their bidding in 1979. They felt secure that he could be managed again,” the authors wrote.
Atiku was reportedly asked to join a team to Ogun to inform Obasanjo that he was going to run for the highest office in the land.
“When Atiku and Obasanjo discussed the call to serve as president, Obasanjo said he could not be president because he was a nearly bankrupt ex-convict. Atiku, through General (Aliyu) Gusau, paid money into Obasanjo’s account to begin his financial rehabilitation.
“Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar helped out by granting him an unconditional pardon. Atiku put everything he had at his disposal to support Obasanjo’s emergence as the PDP presidential candidate and, when he joined the ticket as the vice-presidential nominee, continued to make his assets available to Obasanjo and the campaign.
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