dequir: Old man, what a life you are living, I will not wish it on my enemies.
You wake each day with crude bitterness on your soul, and you sleep each day with same.
Life is too short, don't waste it fighting someone's else war for which you have little to gain from.
How can you be so arrogant about your ignorance of the relationship between governance and politics
What would anyone choose to be the worst type of illiterate?
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.”
mrkings84: Personally I expect them to kill more and kidnap more after all they've got the backing of the authorities
Whatever happened to the narrative about El Rufai being responsible for the killings in Kaduna when he was governor?
Why are the killings continuing now that he is not governor anymore
Maxymilliano: The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.
Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.
At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.
Phoen1X: I don't know what to say, since kwara state and other southwest Yoruba enclaves are also under attack while tinubu is busy planning and welcoming decampers to apc,,,,
while "Rome" is on fire.
………….the intending emperor is falling yakata in Turkey
Krankhead: Obi and Arise are never happy with good news , that's why Rufai is not married, no woman can stay with him. He is bitter person.
Obi and Arise always want kidnapping and accidents to happen in Nigeria so that they can feast on it
How are they different from Tinubu and APC when they were fighting for power and grabbing it to run cluelessly with it, just to make everything worse for 200 million Nigerians
EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
Can we give pictures of the massive infrastructure to petrol attendants, as payment for the subsidy that APC governments have forced on us since 2015
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.
Princedapace: Well, the leaders know that we have no balls
Is it as much about having balls, or it is about being engaged with the political and governance processes
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.
Melagros: COMRADES, honestly I don't know what else to say about this government of lies brainwashing
No need to say much.
What is needed is to work with other patriots to ensure the opposition unite behind a strong candidate who can return us to PDP’s 16 years of prosperity that was achieved on deregulation and privatisation policies.
PDP prosperity with high productivity and high employment rates that made people too busy to be available for recruitment by terrorists, kidnappers, bandits etc.
Cherrybae: There is wild jubilation and celebrations all over Rivers state today.
We are proud of our son Wike. We urge PBAT to go to bed and sleep with his two eyes closed.
Rivers state is 100% for PBAT.
Wike na man you be
A man who is a good copy of his current godfather in making people drink smelling, shitty, detty water?
What improvements in water supply did your son make in his eight years as governor of Rivers State? Was it as disastrous as what he is doing in Abuja now
anonimi: Water Scarcity Hits Maitama, Embassies Affected
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
A severe water scarcity has hit the downtown area of Maitama District in the Federal Capital City over the last two weeks, Abuja Metro reports.
Many parts of the affluent neighbourhood have been struggling with lack of pipe-borne water as the Federal Capital Territory Water Board supply has been off.
AfDapone: He cursed himself, how he didn't know baffles me.
Maybe he is talking under influence of expensive alcohol as usual, to consolidate the existing curse from Sheriff
anonimi: No room for Wike, Fayose in PDP again —Sheriff
Also reacting to the judgment, its apparent beneficiary, Senator Sheriff, vowed to put in place a machinery that would not give room to people like Governors Nyesom Wike and Ayodele Fayose of Rivers and Ekiti states, respectively in any future arrangement in the party.
“I will engineer a restructuring of PDP such that characters like Wike and Fayose cannot find a way through to attain any position of prominence in our party in the future. They have brought shame and agony through the application of their crude and godless politics which is at variance with the principles upon which our founding fathers built our great party.
“We must find a way to sieve things so that only men of character and integrity can come through for positions of responsibility at all levels of our political engagement in the country.
“We must urgently steer the ship of PDP clear of the path of infamy which Wike and Fayose has brought our party, making Nigerians to mistaken PDP as a training ground for thugs. That is the urgent task we have. We cannot continue to advertise thug brand and expect Nigerians to take us seriously,” he said.
OneCandleAway: He was using rivers as a source to build up the money he will use for his presidential ambition He thinks it's all about bribing judges and governors to become president.
Imagine controlling fubara to the point even the cook you appointed them, apart from other appointments. So technically you're in charge of what even enters his stomach.
No be so oversabi people dey climb tree pass the leaves until they fall down yakata like the current boss of this wicked, ologogoro FCT land grabber fell in Turkey recently
anonimi: Wike lobbied PDP committee to be Atiku’s running mate – Ex-gov’ship aspirant
Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:33:04 WAT
Muazu Magaji, a former governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State, has alleged that the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, lobbied members of the party’s committee constituted to advise the presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the choice of his running mate.
Magaji disclosed this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily, on Thursday.
The Kano politician also argued that there was no proof that Atiku promised Wike the vice president position as claimed.
The PDP committee had recommended the Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa; Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel and Wike.
The committee, however, scored Wike above the other two contenders but Atiku decided to settle for Okowa. A decision that has since unsettled Wike’s camp.
Magaji, however, claimed that Wike lobbied to be scored ahead of others, adding that the Rivers State governor should not be trusted with important positions in the country.
2023: PDP and politics of healing Wike’s self-inflicted injury
Then, the race began in earnest for three years now, reaching a frenzy with the works of the two PDP committees on zoning. The first was the Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi committee on the zoning of the PDP party offices. The Ugwuanyi committee quickly told the world the committee’s assignment did not cover zoning the office of the president. Though this was true, the question is: why didn’t the Ugwuanyi committee zone the PDP chairmanship to the North without aligning it to the divide that would produce the PDP presidential flag-bearer? The second committee headed by Gov Samuel Ortom of Benue state was specifically on the zoning of the presidential ticket and, with the votes of the representatives of all the 17 Southern states without any exception, the Committee unanimously recommended throwing open the PDP presidential ticket, which the PDP NEC simply upheld.
One thing irrefutably stands out – Wike shot himself in the leg. Here was a man who had an overarching influence on both committees but could not insist that the ticket be zoned South. Many had wondered why? The reason is also relatively in plain sight: the Southeast factor. As the clamour for zoning of the presidential ticket of the PDP to South reached its crescendo, many had pointed out the fact that though the PDP Constitution had prescribed zoning of the office of the president to be between North and South since the South-west and South-south had taken their turns in producing the president and the vice in this current dispensation in the persons of Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, zoning this time around, should not just be to the South but the Southeast.
Atiku Abubakar went a step further by offering to step down from the race if it would be agreed that the touted zoning to the South would mean micro-zoning to the Southeast. Wike and the rest could not take the Atiku challenge maybe because Atiku would likely back Peter Obi, who was his vice-presidential running mate in 2019 and an ally. The prospects of Peter Obi picking the ticket if PDP zoned South was so real compelling Wike to go for an open contest, believing he could pick it up ahead of Atiku, Tambuwal and Bala Mohammed, given his large war chest.
ddippset: Says a man who hijacked the party and singlehandedly produced the last 4 National Chairmen of the party for his own selfishness.
Says a man who accepted nomination to be running mate to Fulani Atiku. He knew it was injustice to give Atiku the ticket yet he lobbied to be the VP.
He knew the party had to go South for the 2023 election, yet he still put Secondus as National Chaiman just to hijack the party.. Only to push Secondus out because he wanted the ticket 2023.
This man remains the biggest problem of PDP.
He can only deceive and fool his minions, not reasonable people.
Fearyourcreator: As na bad news with people wey like your post like , bad news e no go end for una house
May it be your own portion as you wish to be for me.
Meanwhile, has bad news ended for All Promises Cancelled, APC leaders looters after using bad news to scam Nigerians into switching from PDP prosperity to their extreme poverty shege with insecurity
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.
commoditiesnig: Noted.. Congrats to your well organised party.
Any idea when APC and Tinubu will similarly organise the economy to deliver his promises to:
- crash petrol price below the January 2023 level - make a dollar to N300 in the short term with his SPV Afreximbank loan of $3.3 billion secured by future oil revenues - cross $1 trillion GDP instead of the reduction that has stuck us in the 4th place despite their rebasing of the measurement
Did they give South West Development Commission or did Lagos State get the special status recognition to achieve this?.
The mum.u Senators from South West are there mute, only after their pockets while others are pushing for Development Commission for their region despite giving next to no vote to the current administration. Continue dreaming, don't wake up from your slumber and fight for your rights.
With what resources did Singapore develop to a 1st world country within a generation
I remember how Tinubu was using the slogan of 3rd world to 1st when he was governor, but 19 years after the end of his tenure, ordinary water supply is not available to all households.
Kemetian: This looks more like 2050 to 2060 rather than 2034.
But this is definitely where Nigeria is headed - and really the rest of Africa and the world, by AI projections, at current economic growth rates and trends.
I also went on ChatGPT AI and asked it to describe Nigeria in 2090.
IT DESCRIBES A MAJOR SPACE-FARING POWER WITH ITS OWN COLONIES ON OTHER PLANETS, a country that has long ago created ABUNDANCE for its people with its vast natural resources, and a world leader in advanced AI and Quantum Computing.
It also describes an Africa with poverty totally eradicated, and that is in full control of its natural resources and economy, with the era of western influence and dominance a distant memory
Dreams die quickly when they are not accompanied by necessary work.
What % of the data processed by the AI and the algorithms hardware itself are researched, produced, constantly updated by Africans?
Africans that love to be ọkanlawọn one eyed king of blind people but then wonder why we are treated shabbily by racist societies where everyone has two eyes, with primus inter pares leaders.
TheBedWench: The one-drop rule is a social and legal principle of racial classification that was historically prominent in the United States in the 20th century. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of black blood) is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms).
This concept became codified into the law of some states in the early 20th century. It was associated with the principle of "invisible blackness" that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste and later segregation. It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status, regardless of proportion of ancestry in different groups.[3]
The one-drop rule is defunct in law in the United States and was never codified into federal law.
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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.
BreconHills: lagos did not receive revenue during the OzbJ years and as far as I know Lagos had free healthcare and free education
As far as you know, less than 5% public schools is the free education of Lagos provided by Lagos state since 1999?
How many teachers ANNUALLY are employed by Lagos to ensure there is enough for every child?
Are similar ratios any different for the health sector?
If Tinubu has failed in 27 years to achieve a tiny fraction of what Jakande did in four years with relatively chicken change, then he is the worst rogue in history. The worst!!!
Splashme: The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.
Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.
The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.
Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”
The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.
Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.
He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
BreconHills: lagos did not receive revenue during the OzbJ years and as far as I know Lagos had free healthcare and free education
Three propaganda lies in just one post.
Lagos received all its share of the 27% federation account jointly owned by the 36 states. Obasanjo only withheld the 20% owned by the 774 LGAs, because Tinubu and his Attorney General Osinbajo wanted to smuggle unrecognised LGAs into the constitution.
Nigeria: Why Lagos LG Fund is Withheld - Obasanjo
6 JUNE 2005
Speaking on his monthly media chat, on why he has held on to the Lagos State funds, President Obasanjo said the Supreme Court in trying to resolve the dispute used the term "inchoate," which means not completed. The president said the Lagos State government had not completed the process of local government creation as stipulated in the constitution.
"The Supreme Court said we should release money to 20 local governments. The first thing I did in my first and second tenure is to defend the constitution and protect the law. That is what I have done. The LGs cannot be completed until the National Assembly accepts them and put them in the constitution," he said, adding that Ebonyi, Katsina, Nassarawa, Niger and Bayelsa states did the same thing and have reverted to the former status.
"It is Lagos State that is being obdurate. We are not picking on Lagos. It is not my fault. States that reverted have been paid. It is Lagos that is holding itself," he added, saying that if Lagos reverts, it would get its money within 24 hours.
Street traders? Agbero and MC oluomo gang? Public dedicators ? Reckless dumping of refuse
The fact that Nigeria has the highest number of dirty n uncultured citizens
The state government should employ enough well paid professional teachers and other staff to educate every child free in schools with adequate classrooms, libraries, labs, playgrounds etc.
This is the foundation for sustainable development.
PDP’s Obasanjo and Atiku understood this, which is why they established UBEC 27 years ago, to provide federal matching funds to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education.
BreconHills: All you need to look at is the oil prices during the period. If the gains in the PDP years had been well managed, Nigeria would be better off. If indeed the money was spent on development then we would like to know where that development was.
Every government during the boom years owes an explanation.
Because every government during independence has mismanaged Nigerias prosperity not its poverty. Whether Gowon in the 70's, IBB during the Gulf war, GEJ during the oil price boom. All of them. And this is why I have a soft spot for PMB. The guy was playing dice with gravel while previous generations used gold bars.
Oil prices and revenue started falling again in 2013, but PDP deregulation and privatisation fundamentals made the economy grow nevertheless.
Since 2015, oil prices and revenues have had periods of recovery but APC palliative sharing progreThief policies have failed to translate into growth.
By the way, did the states not get their own 27% share of the revenue during the PDP years? Why did progressive states like Borno and Lagos fail to achieve free education for all children and water supply to all households during this period and beyond?
anonimi: FG, States, LGs Share N568.4 Billion for Oct 15 NOVEMBER 2013
Also, $1billion was proposed for distribution to complement shortfall in expected revenue." The $1billion is a compromise by the FG over its words in September not to augment shortfalls anymore.
Responding to the presentation, the chairman of the States Commissioners of Finance and Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Mr Timothy Odaah, lamented that the statutory allocation was getting smaller and smaller. "It appears this is the worst in terms of returns. This is the least in allocations as far as this year is concerned. We are mourning the dearth of funds and this is a wakeup call for states and local governments to buoy up their internally generated revenue."
While appreciating the "magnanimity" of President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the $1billion from the excess crude account and to be shared among the federal, state and local governments, Odaah expressed disappointment with the returns made by the NNPC.
He said that the states had requested for $2bn to complement for the shortfall in revenue but got only $1billion. In September, Odaah and fellow commissioners had walked out of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) when the federal government said that the framework of the 2013 budget was no longer realistic and it won't augment shortfall in revenue. Odaah raised issues with the statutory allocations of previous months.
xmasgift: Prosperity and PDP in the same sentence?
You got jokes.
I don’t have any joke. Except you know that Wale Edun got jokes.
Do you know if data and statistics from various sources have jokes too
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
elevated2: During the first six months of General Buhari, power supply was great without him doing nothing.
What was the secret then?
The secret is PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies as well as the increased power generation, which APC unfortunately have failed to sustain.
We thank God that PDP deregulation and prosperity politicians added1,400 Mws to the grid unlike their APC chochocho balablu fake promises opponents.
High on promises but too low for zero on delivery. That is All Promises Cancelled, APC.
Buhari’s administration to generate 20,000mw of electricity in four years – APCPCO Published on February 2, 2015
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) on Sunday promised to provide Nigerians with 20,000 megawatts (mw) of electricity within the first four years it takes over governance at the federal level. It maintained that its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) will improve the nation’s power situation significantly, if elected.
The proposed 20,000mw of electricity to be generated by the party in four years time will surpass Nigeria’s present consumption rate of around 15,000mw, the party had said.
Disclosing this in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, APCPCO expressed disappointment that the federal government under *President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration has only succeeded in adding 1.400mw to the national grid in four years.*
Except you have the expertise at hand plus the trillions of dollars needed!
The Privitization done by GEJ was poorly done to unqualified companies. Companies without financial backings and top-notch expertise in the energy sector! We need to go back to move forward!
If PDP’s power sector privatisation was poorly done, why have brilliant APC leaders looters failed to rework it?
Was that not how PDP’s Jonathan reworked the Lagos-Ibadan road construction that had been concessioned by Obasanjo to Bi-Courteney in 2014
DeltaBachelor: It is simply as a result of corruption in high places
What corruption are you talking about after Tinubu declared that he has ended it?
The Lagos magician was emulated by his power minister who said that 75% of Nigerians have adequate electricity since 2015, as promised by Fashola and Buhari.
Nigeria has some saboteurs as citizens who are bent on making sure the nation fails.
Can there be a more perfect description of Tinubu and his fellow propagandist liars in All Promises Cancelled, APC
The ones who scammed us into switching PDP prosperity for APC extreme poverty and corruption with insecurity from higher unemployment.
EkoIle1: It is now abundantly clear that President Jonathan has finally bared his fangs confirming what was widely speculated. By declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, he has intimidated and emasculated the governors of these States. We are witnessing a dangerous trend in the art of governance and a deliberate ploy to subvert constitutional democracy.
The body language of the Jonathan administration leads any keen watcher of events with unmistakable conclusion of the existence of a surreptitious but barely disguised intention to muzzle the elected governments of these states for what is clearly a display of unpardonable mediocrity and diabolic partisanship geared towards 2015.
Borno and Yobe states have been literally under armies of occupation with the attendant excruciating hardship experienced daily by the indigenes and residents of these areas. This government now wants to use the excuse of the security challenges faced by the Governors to remove them from the states considered hostile to the 2015 PDP/Jonathan project.
Let me be quick to say that this administration will be setting in motion a chain of events the end of which nobody can predict. Experience has shown clearly that actions, such as this one under consideration, often give root to radical ideologies and extremist tendencies, a direct opposite of the intended outcome of unwarranted and unintelligent meddlesomeness. The present scenario playing out in the country reminds one of the classical case of a mediocre craftsman who continually blames the tools of his trade for his serial failure but refuses to look at his pitiable state with a view to adjusting.
A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
People want a leader who does what he promises to do.
What is the benefit of a balablu leader looter who excites deliberately impoverished and poorly educated people with distractions like this one, instead of doing the job that he asked for
franchasng: Tinubu that barely knows what goes on around him as seen clearly during his state visit to Turkey, are you sure he even knew when his guest Governor Uba Sani helped him to sit in that guest seat?
Some people are ruling Nigeria in the name of Tinubu, Tinubu is just a name they are using to hold on to the Presidency, Tinubu does not know anything, this is not a secret anymore
What is the point of having a government worker, like the president, who is not responsible for his actions?
What do you gain from this narrative, which was used to excuse Buhari’s failures that Tinubu reinforced in 2019, to have his own Emilokan turn at the treasury through Yorubalokan
Putindbutt: Imagine this happened in Nigeria, the "finishing specialist" and his bitter supporters would have been jumping all over social media.
They would even tell you that it is only in Nigeria such a thing could happen.
Were you one of the bitter supporters of finishing specialist Ayédèrú when he was jumping all over the media to make PDP look bad in his bid for Buhari to become president, four years after calling him expired
Johnnyessence: The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday said President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration lacks the wherewithal to tackle the country’s security challenges. The former Lagos State governor therefore asked Jonathan to resign as Nigerian president. The APC chieftain spoke in Ilorin, Kwara State, during the formal declaration of Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed’s bid for second term in office. The event was attended by former head of state and APC’s presidential aspirant, Muhammadu Buhari, former vice Abubakar Atiku and governors of Imo, Rivers, Kano, Sokoto and Edo States. Also in attendance were – the Speaker of House of Representative, Aminu Tambuwal, Senator Bukola Saraki, former governors of Kwara and Ekiti States, Alhaji Shaaba Lafiagi and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, APC’s spokesperson, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, member, Board of Trustees of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje and Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Razak Atunwa. Tinubu said, “I saw the sea of refuges caused by the Boko Haram insurgents and the lies coming from Jonathan’s administration. They have exhibited failure, lack of capacity, vision and creativity. The lies of yesterday are what they repeat today and are what they will repeat tomorrow. They are lying to you. “They are lying about the security, toying about the security of this country. I don’t have time to explain the logic of their lies. “But if you control the armed forces and you are the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic, why should any part of this country be under occupation? And you give us excuses every day. In any civilized country Jonathan should have resigned. But if he will not resign, he should wait for our broom, we will sweep him away. I will come back. “This is just the endorsement of Governor Ahmed, that he will be re-elected by the grace of God with the support of you people here and those outside there. The unemployment situation will be conquered by this administration of APC. We have the vision for the security of the lives of our children. “The thieves that daily steal your money have not given you any job, they cannot create jobs and they are starving states of funds to pay workers salaries. The best thing to do is to sweep them away through broom revolution. APC is a party of the masses. “It now behooves on you to begin a house to house campaign that this is a party of the masses.” thenationonlineng.net/new/insecurity-tinubu-asks-jonathan-to-resign/
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