Wickedtruths: This is why Tinubu has been tactically holding Trump back, because this is the narrative your type will push.
By the time they start dealing with sponsors of terror, you won't have water left to cry in your eyes.
Who is the greatest sponsor of terror in Nigeria apart from the Ayédèrú tenant of Aso Rock?
He is reaping what he and his fellow progreThieves sowed in order for him to replace PDP prosperity with APC extreme poverty.
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.
angelboy01: When I saw the boys anger in the pic it made me to realize how a woman's venom can be so lethal that a son would beat up his father in public.
He wasn't brought up well. If you as a man is being brought up by a woman never believe their tales. Women are manipulative including my own mom and that's the pure truth.
Always manipulative, and you as a man try Nd find what why and most importantly it's better not to get involved in your parents fight if you can't be matured. Just forgive your father and move on instead of holding on to endless anger.
I didn’t realise that women can be so cruel and deceitful.
I thought it was only politicians who were like that, especially those ones in Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC.
tunjijones: It still going to be a three way contest just like 2023
………..which means that the Ayédèrú will continue his turn of worsening APC change as he closes out the democratic space for his 3rd term agenda to be life president. Something that Obasanjo failed to achieve despite his Ghana must go bags of bribes to NASS members. Thankfully Atiku led other democracy heroes to kill the bill.
Obi got 6 million plus, while Kwankwaso go 1 million Votes..
You should know who should deputize who ..
Una too Dey overrate northerners, that’s why they are looking down on you guys
How many states did ACN have in 2015 compared to the number that CPC had, before Tinubu packaged his expired Buhari of four years earlier, into the change messiah who will wash away the mess of Nigeria 🇳🇬?
11 years later, how much change has happened in our country
Evergreen4: Homes that will be use to reward the governors loyalist.
Even if they decide to mortgage the house to civil servant, an average civil servant won't still be able to pay up the amount within their 35 year of service. Salary is so meagre.
It’s terrible how much looting and destruction APC progreThieves have caused in Yoruba land.
Who will rescue us from these corrupt vampires?
How do we work together to restore our progressive values in governance
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.
Do you know if Eleyi has employed as many as 19,500 teachers since he was allowed to be governor of Awolowo’s state?
Maybe as a progressive APC governor you can confirm that he has employed more than what PDP’s Makinde employed in just five years?
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
grandstar: What would have led to real pressure on the Naira was the fuel subsidy which is now finally gone.
Are you sure that subsidy is finally gone, or APC and Tinubu changed it to UNDER-RECOVERY?
Is that not how the clueless, corrupt and incompetent progreThieves changed PDP prosperity to their extreme poverty and insecurity
NNPC’s N17.5tn pipeline security, fuel subsidy bill December 11, 2025 12:20 am
Central to this anomaly is NNPC’s 2024 financial statement, which shows an unprecedented N17.5 trillion spent ostensibly on securing oil pipelines and energy security operations.
This outlay encompasses N7.13 trillion classified as energy-security costs aimed at stabilising petrol prices, plus N8.67 trillion related to “under-recovery” on refined petroleum products, which refers to the price gap between the regulated pump price and the higher actual import cost absorbed by NNPC.
Another N8.84 trillion is recorded as receivables for advances and security costs incurred, reinforcing the sheer scale of the company’s financial exposure.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
The corporation, in a statement, noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.
The NNPC said the Port Harcourt refinery was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while Warri refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol.
Providing insight into the rehabilitation exercise, the NNPC noted that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation strategy after the Original Refinery Builders, who were initially contacted for the project came up with unfavorable terms.
It said, “Though a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries, we were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms.”
The NNPC stated that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It added that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
The corporation said, “The phased rehabilitation strategy which entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all the refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law, also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.”
The national oil firm said the phased rehabilitation programme, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70 per cent reduction in costs which helped largely in mitigating the financing challenges of refinery rehabilitation.
It observed that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention has now moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company which was billed to come on stream soon.
saintopus: Dec 06, 2024 The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai. The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
Emeka71: No that one can be sorted out though bore-hole so let them fix the power sector so that there shall be constant light to run the bore-hole. ]
Borehole in the same compound as septic tank and soak away pits for kwashiorkor water?
Is that what they do in cities and towns of France, Britain, Canada, America etc in this 21st century despite having 24/7 adequate electricity supply, which that Pẹnkẹlẹmẹs minister said is being enjoyed by 75% of Nigerians since May 2015
anonimi: Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
KIDfurniture: Amonda Ahmed ogunlere tinubu no be human being na. He doesn’t care about igbos , Hausas & Yoruba - only thing he is after is how to secure power in 2027. He will sacrifice all humans if possible .
You are spot on with this assessment of the Ayédèrú atọhunrinwa who has destroyed Lagos State basic services and utilities in his 27 years of lootocracy TAX monster plan. The same formula that is being used for 200 million Nigerians from Aso Rock.
How do we get together and work to save our country from this scam
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.
LagosOrigin: Trump was is indirectly telling remi Tinubu to warn her husband to tame this terorists or he do it the Trump's way.
Gun a blazing....
Should we be concerned how Tinubu is so clueless that he is inviting Americans to violate our sovereignty, killing innocent northerners while claiming to look for Muslim terrorists accused of committing genocide against Christians?
At what point in PDP’s 16 years of widespread prosperity and high employment productivity with less corruption did we invite a foreign country to violate Nigeria’s 🇳🇬 sovereignty
Firefire: I am really worried about the increasing death toll...
Buhari said: “If you elect me as the President of Nigeria on February 14 (now March 28), I am assuring you that our government will chase Boko Haram out of Nigeria within two months because it is the responsibility of any reasonable government to secure the lives and property of its citizens.”
Ezeama400: Ihejirika was firing those Islamic terrorists back to back, northern elders started crying that he’s committing genocide and avenging civil war,..
I wonder how these Nothern elders would be feeling now that Trump is ready to clear them off..
Maybe they will stage another protest like they shamelessly did last two months before Trump struck
Was Tinubu one of the northern elders back then
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.
WesleyPepper: Atheeefku lapdog, Tinubu would never succumb to you terrorists . Don’t worry, the fight would be taken to you lvsers who never wish Nigeria and Nigerians well.
One thing is forever sure, that fantastically corrupt nonagenarian from Cameroon you come here to advertise would never lead Nigeria
If the Lagos TAX monster planner wished Nigeria and Nigerians well, then why did he package his 2011 expired Buhari as APC change messiah four years later? Why did he join them in sowing the seeds of instability and insecurity that he is now getting its bumper harvest
Are you happy that your Ayédèrú leader looter with a surname different from his Mogaji mother is making everything worse about Nigeria 🇳🇬, just like he is doing in Lagos State since 1999?
Teenaira: E-voting will make it abundantly clear that Peter Obi can never win a free and fair election in Nigeria.
You are right about that.
It would be difficult for him to get almost 100% votes in the five states of the southeast, which unfortunately helped Jagaban of Borgu indirectly to get his own turn to worsen APC extreme poverty shege and insecurity started by his 2011 expired Buhari.
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.
Omotola still fine like wine abeg. Happy birthday to her, more life and good health. Nollywood legend 👏🏽🎉
One has to be careful about pictures in these days of AI photoshopping o.
Was that not how Tinubu showed us his photo of having lunch in France with Kagame after new year, meanwhile the Rwandan president was in his own country celebrating the new year with his fellow countrymen
Why must she be a medical doctor before she can ADVOCATE for greater attention to health issues in the country, with particular emphasis placed on her fellow actors
Danjunior: How I wish thunder could have just fired this out politicians whenever the try to insult us through reverse psychology.
After stealing all our common wealth you still have the mind to insult us
Maybe the thunder is coming over them already since her husband has been falling down everywhere.
By the way, is it more our fault for letting them steal our commonwealth since we don’t care about government services and public utilities provided by well paid workers? Why are we mostly just focused on NEW roads and other infrastructure projects that are used as cover for stealing from us, in a turn by turn zoning and rotation system to avoid marginalisation in sharing the national cake
angelboy01: Madam where's the dinner photos you had with Trump. Wetin una chop?
Can someone help with the photos please. Picture you snapped with Trump we know see madam.
Why do you think that the Lebanese-Nigerian (Massad Boulos) who is Trump’s in-law and Adviser on Africa, went as far as securing a dinner date for her in the White House
These legislooters cannot continue taking us for a ride
Does that include senior and junior federal lawmakers of the communist LP labourers camp
aduboy: Anambra distributes 177 vehicles to traditional rulers Posted by NAN Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, on Monday in Awka, distributed one SUV each to the traditional rulers of the 177 communities in the state.
Obi handed over one of the vehicles’ key to the state Chairman of the Traditional Rulers’ Council, Igwe Alfred Achebe, Obi of Onitsha.
He said that the gesture was aimed at helping them run and build better communities, adding that the vehicles would also help the traditional rulers to function effectively.
“If you have better communities, you will have a better Anambra, Anambra today is changing for better and I want this sustained,” the governor said.
“In doing that, the state government and the local government will do what it can to support the building of a better Anambra.”
Achebe said that he was overjoyed because the governor cared about the well-being and welfare of the traditional rulers.
“It is completely unprecedented in Anambra and probably elsewhere in Nigeria,” he said.
“It is a mighty gesture from the governor and for the government of the state to make a distinct impact on the well-being of the traditional rulers in the state.”
According to him, it was one of the several measures the present administration in the state had taken to improve the wellbeing of the traditional rulers.
“We pray that God will give us a successor that will continue from where Obi has left and lift Anambra to the next level.”
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.
Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?
PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3
— Senator Baruch Chinanu Boniface (@SenatorBaruch1) November 7, 2023
alexconddy072: Mallam Bolaji, your comments on security challenges in Nigeria risk politicising a matter that affects every Nigerian family — regardless of party, region, or background. The fight against insecurity is a national concern, and it deserves sober analysis, not blame-shifting or partisan rhetoric. Let’s be clear about a few facts: 1. Security reform is a collective responsibility — No single individual or party can claim exclusive ownership of successes or failures. Insecurity in Nigeria has deep, structural roots that transcend political terms. 2. Effective security architecture must be supported by resources and oversight. Leaders at all levels — federal, state, and local — must be accountable for how security votes are managed and leveraged for real impact. 3. On Lagos and the Rapid Response Squad (RRS): As Governor of Lagos State, Ahmed Bola Tinubu restructured the former Operation Sweep into the RRS, a unit now widely recognised for its rapid, community-oriented response to crime. This model has helped improve public safety in Africa’s largest city and is appreciated by residents across social and ethnic lines. 4. On your own tenure in Kwara State: Eight years in office provides ample time to strengthen security architecture, build credible institutions, and deploy innovations tailored to local needs. Many citizens expected measurable improvements in security infrastructure and responsiveness during that period. Highlighting those expectations isn’t about party politics — it’s about accountability. 5. What Nigerians want is results: Constructive dialogue must focus on: o Prioritising investments in community policing o Enhancing intelligence capabilities o Strengthening coordination between federal and state security agencies o Ensuring transparent use of security funds This isn’t the time for wailing or political point-scoring. It’s a time for leadership that offers solutions, not slogans. Nigeria’s youth, women, and families deserve leaders who work together — across party lines — to protect lives and property. Let’s keep the conversation focused on real outcomes, collaboration, and shared responsibility.
Why did Tinubu and his fellow APC leaders looters fail to understand this your dogo turenchi when they were asking us to vote for them so our country can be better 11 years ago?
What has changed since then for better in Nigeria 🇳🇬?
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.
WesleyPepper: I’m sure ADC folks coordinated the attack . Tinubu has been in opposition and he should know what his former friends are capable of doing .
They did it to GEJ too
Are they not the forever friends of the Jagaban of Borgu in their All Promises Cancelled, APC party?
Should you not be ashamed of yourself saying that Tinubu undermined PDP’s 16 years of prosperity and less insecurity and replaced it with APC extreme poverty shege with worsening insecurity and corruption
If Tinubu is too clueless and incompetent to lead this country to end insecurity, then he should resign now, just as he advised Jonathan to do before 2015!!!
Delat521: I see all of them as bunch stupid as hole who only care about themselves. Tell me is there any difference between APC, PDP etc. These are the politicians that lack principle, that only care about win election.
Of course PDP might have recorded some achievement from that area but you failed to mention the genesis of this current scourge of insecurity plaque our Nation started during pdp area and monumental corruption also took place during PDP government.
Do you know the difference among
Good Better Best
-and among:
Bad Worse Worst
Do you disagree with PDP’s policies giving us a better Nigeria with less corruption and less insecurity due to high employment productivity from deregulation and privatisation policies?
socialmediaman: The 2018 Rating by Transparency International placed Nigeria at 148th position out of 180 countries. Nigeria was improving over the years under the previous government, until Buhari got elected as president, things became worse.
There is a difference between fact and fiction. We need to face facts, Buhari is worse than GEJ when it comes to fighting corruption, at least that’s what the facts prove.
Most of us believed there was corruption under Goodluck Jonathan’s Government. I agree with those who did, there was corruption, but not as bad as it is today under Mohammadu Buhari.
In 2012, Nigeria was placed at 139th position, In 2014, Nigeria gained 3 steps and was placed at 136th position. Under Buhari, Nigeria has lost many positions down to 148th.
There’s no further proof needed that corruption has worsened under Buhari’s government compared to previous years.
Ishilove: Do you know the purpose of the high fences? There's a difference between visa touts and agberos. Find it out before running down the country.
Yes, Nigeria has long running problems, but I will not keep complaining on the pages of foreigners. That's where the disrespect and see finish starts
Are there as many visa touts around the embassies in Pretoria as there are in embassies and consulates in Abuja and Lagos?
If we don’t see ourselves finish on the pages of nairaland, then how do we mobilise public opinion to OBLIGE our government officials to do right by us?
Pikin wey dem no train/discipline for house, no be for outside dem go show am pepper? Is that not our miserable reality outside Nigeria
Princedapace: Oga, I slept last night without light as my gen off around 3Am. Yes, I hate Nigeria, I slept under heat. I have spent over 30k in three days buying fuel for generator. As a human being, I deserve electricity. I had to sleep with generator on every night.
I hate Nigeria, I can never say good things about it as the country has suffered me so much while using my money to care for politicians and their families. Thunder fire Nigeria
What is Nigeria the abstract geographical location without its 200 million mumucious citizens, who allow the worst leaders looters to emerge from among them into office, to SERVE the public in local, state and federal levels, either in the legislative or executive branch? Tribesmen who rotate and zone positions to avoid marginalisation in sharing the national cake, a (sub)conscious endorsement of turn by turn corruption.
Meanwhile, how come you are not part of the 75% of Nigerians with adequate electricity supply since 2015 when we listened to Fashola and kicked out PDP prosperity? PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies were replaced with APC’s extreme poverty breeding palliative sharing progreThief policies.
I hope you know lagos is like that because it is overpopulated.
Do you also know that Lagos generates more revenue than other states because of its population, which makes the economy more productive
Lanrelagboi: Lagos has now crossed the 3 Trillion Naira annual budget mark. Crossed 2 Trillion in 2024.
Memory Lane: the first full-year Lagos State budget (Year 2000) in the 4th Republic was in the region of 40-something billion Naira. And it was described as “unprecedented” back then.
Patrickker: Why are we Nigerians always like this? We are very quick to spew negatives only about our country on public fora. This is what you hardly see other people from other countries do. Are those countries perfect? No.
Are their citizens satisfied with their leaders? No. Their jibes aren't like ours. Then when all these South Africans, Ghanaians, Kenyans and now the Namibians who equally have a lot going on their countries come here to read our derogatory comments about our own country and decide to get back at us, we complain. We need to learn how to talk even when we have a lot to say. It is wisdom.
Which one of these countries has the most extreme poverty paupers and the highest number of children out of school like our country?
Which one of them has cities that are smelly and detty because governors steal money that should employ workers to make water available?
By the way, how much do you know about what the people of those countries are saying about their situation before you concluded that they are DISHONEST about it? If you say everything is fine and gloss over government failures then how do you want those allowed to be in office, to fix the problems
Delat521: True talk bro. They're simply power drunk and they don't even know when to politicize or not. They are just throwing nonsensical comment at any slightest happening in the country. As if they would done better than that.
These are the so called opposition that solely focus on negativity always without even proffering solution to the problem like emphasising on state police and others. Bunch stupid ass hole just interested in power grab to loot. Birds of same feather.
PDP prosperity politicians, who are the bulk of ADC party, did better in their 16 years of privatisation and deregulation prosperity with high employment rates and low insecurity.
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