DickenClarq: Even if they visit mortuaries they won't still win. I prefer Bello Tuji the bandit leader to rule Nigeria than Atiku. It is the turn of the South and the South must complete their 4years whether Tinubu, Obi, Sowore, Donald Duke etc. Southerner must occupy the presidential sit until 2031. May God help us
What is God’s own inside this tribalistic zoning and rotation system of sharing the national cake of corruption in local, state and federal governments, both in legislative and executive positions
onuman: Since 1992, Atiku has contested all presidential elections in Nigeria. Oga, your own don do na. Presidency is not going to Fulani north in 2027 shortly after Buhari.
Why did the presidency go to the south in 2011 shortly after Obasanjo?
Are you aware that in 2027, the south would have been president for 17 years unlike the north for only 11 years, because of Atiku’s loyalty to ingrate alaimore Obasanjo in 2003?
What is the basis for this tribalistic rotation of the presidency after two terms instead of after one term?
aieromon: According to sources available to us that time, Obasanjo said he will do a single term but after that, he decided to go for second term. I was physically present at Rivers state Governor’s Lodge when the heat became too much and Obasanjo in the presence of all of us knelt down in front of Atiku begging him to allow him do a second term. I think that was how Atiku missed the opportunity by agreeing to Obasanjo’s plea. His thought was that at least, if Obasanjo completes his second term, he will hand over to him but you all know the story of Third Term Agenda and that was how they fell apart. Atiku had the best opportunity to become president in 2003 and lost it. He had the support of PDP governors then.
Around November 2002, 15 of the 21 Governors from the PDP including me, had an ad hoc meeting at my lodge in Abuja to decide who should be nominated by the Governors Committee for election by PDP as the presidential nominee for the 2003 Election.
The Governors Committee decided almost unanimously to get a new candidate instead of President Obasanjo as the Committee was of the view that because of his military background, he was intolerant of dissent and had displayed very dictatorial and vindictive tendencies against those he perceived to be independent-minded and disloyal to him.
Immediately after the Governors meeting, I led the delegation of Governors to meet the then PDP Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, at his residence around 2 am.
As the leader of the delegation, I spoke and communicated the views of the Governors to the Chairman, which was that the Governors had decided not to support President Obasanjo as PDPs nominee for the 2003 General Election.
The party chairman tried to persuade us to review our decision but when he saw our resolve, he told us that he would inform the President. I was later informed by Chief Audu Ogbeh that after we left his house he put an urgent call to the President and informed him of our decision.
What then followed were intense consultations before the PDP annual convention which took place in January 2003. Two days before the party convention, the Governors had a breakfast meeting with President Obasanjo.
I recall that at that meeting, the then Vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku told the President in the presence of the Governors that he was known to be very dictatorial, vindictive and unforgiving. The President appealed to the Governors to support him and assured both the Governors and the party leadership that if he was allowed to continue for the second term, he would adopt a more democratic approach.
On the basis of the President's assurance, given at that breakfast meeting, I led the move for the Governors to support his presidential nomination for the second term. However, notwithstanding my support for President Obasanjo's nomination for a second term, the President after the nomination, acted very shabbily towards me.
When I met him soon after the convention, he told me that he had learned that I had put forward the view that he was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable. He then vowed that he was going to make sure that I was unsellable, unmarketable and unelectable.
Atiku Camp - Visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND OBASANJO DURING THE PDP CONVENTION?
According to Adesanya, Atiku met the governors the first day of the convention; they urged him to leave Obasanjo and seek the nomination himself. Atiku demurred; he also deflected the suggestion that he join Ekwueme. Finally, Atiku arranged a meeting between Obasanjo and the now irate governors. The governors railed that Obasanjo was hypocritically pursuing them for corruption, while turning a blind eye to corrupt politicians within his own Administration. Atiku supported the governor's position, telling Obasanjo that significant corruption was not the exclusive ambit of the governors and that serious transgressions occurred in the executive branch: he said it would be unjust to focus exclusively on gubernatorial excesses. Assuming the role of mediator, Atiku then asked both sides to affirm their mutual support and cease the antagonism being fueled by elements that wanted to destroy the PDP. The governors agreed to bury the hatchet, if Obasanjo would shelve the dossiers. Having demonstrated his influence with the governors, Atiku continued to play coy with Obasanjo.
In the end, Atiku extracted an extraordinary concession from the President. Obasanjo agreed to relinquish the entire domestic agenda to Atiku, including the appointment of key economic policy-makers. Since Obasanjo focused on the world arena during his first term and aspired for recognition as an international statesman, Atiku said that is where he would like Obasanjo's attentions to remain. Obasanjo would serve the role of a "super Foreign Minister" and ceremonial Head of State. As Adesanya understood the agreement, Atiku would be allowed to direct domestic economic policy while Obasanjo busied himself with debt relief, NEPAD, conflict resolution and other measures to shore up Nigeria's image abroad.
OBJ camp - visit Wikileaks and type the following in the search bar NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP CONVENTION
The President was dazed, Abayomi recalled. Jarred by the unexpected possibility of defeat, the usually know-it-all Obasanjo eagerly solicited counsel on how to escape the closing vise. Early that day, the dominant theme was to seek a court injunction postponing the convention. Proponents suggested the delay to afford Obasanjo time to marshal support and undermine Ekwueme's momentum. However, this idea was ultimately discarded, partially because of apprehension over the public's reaction. More importantly, the push for an injunction became less urgent when the President's advisors began to sense their man was regaining ground by the hour.
The President owed much of his recovery to his own tenacity and, at times, shamelessness. He pulled out virtually all the stops to clinch the nomination, according to Abayomi. For most of that day, the President's diet consisted of liberal portions of humble pie. The President pleaded and cajoled; on at least two occasions his eyes welled with emotion as he pursued fence-sitting delegates and governors. However, Obasanjo saved his best to keep Vice President Atiku from defecting.
With rumor swirling that Atiku would opt to run with Ekwueme, Obasanjo wasted no time visiting the Vice President's residence. Obasanjo begged, declaring he would not leave Atiku's home unless the Vice President accompanied him to win back the delegates and governors. The performance had the desired effect. Atiku joined Obasanjo in publicly lobbying the conventioneers. While it might not have been Obasanjo's finest hour it was the defining moment of the convention. What had been a suspenseful contest would now turn into a rout.
Vision101: So Atiku's only campaign issue is fuel subsidy? There must something that he so much lost through removal of fuel subsidy.
What have you gained from the subsidy that was NOT removed but petrol is unaffordable in Bola’s stagflation reform economy?
What have you gained from Jagaban’s devalued Naira despite increasing exports and $3.3 billion SPV loans from Afreximbank to defend the currency?
anonimi: NNPCL’s subsidy payment jump by 47.9% to N7.1trn in 2024
November 26, 2025
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of N7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9 percent increase from N4.8 trillion recorded in 2023.
This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023.
The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement.
According to the report, government had instructed that NNPC Limited cannot sell its PMS above a certain regulated price. It added that the cost of petrol import is usually much higher that the regulated price.
Can anyone be more 419 than the master strategist of empty promises and fake announcements, whose tenancy in Aso Rock is ending next year InshaAllah?
The man who is illegally paying more subsidy under a different name than previous president, but selling petrol at an inflated price despite promising to crash it below N185!
Do Yoruba groups celebrate their anniversaries in Chicago and other japa locations? Abi they only celebrate their anniversaries in Lagos and other SW cities?
Did Ohaneze celebrate their anniversary in Lagos only? Or did they celebrate it in other cities?
Image123: Jagaban's Lagos is the dream. Don't take anyone that doesn't support Jagaban seriously, they lack critical thinking or probably ate food and drank water lacking basic nutrients while growing.
What nutrients are in shitty water that made you support Bola’s destruction of progressive Lagos in 27 years of his a-looter propaganda master plan revenue reforms in the state?
anonimi: A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
themanderon: Only a northerner can do this. They are the only few tribes where you can find genuinely honest people. But in which era does those naira notes I am seeing make one wealthy?
That must be the era of PDP cheap petrol, cheap dollars, prosperity, productivity and employment growth etc that took us to the biggest economy in Africa.
Tinubu and APC destroyed all that with their palliative akara, rice and beans stomach infrastructure that replaced deregulation and privatisation policies.
"Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
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.
Nemere2020: 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.”
Richtaiwo: Honesty remains the principle of many human beings regardless of situation. Ever wondered why illicit drugs criminals always blame hardship while the north, despite poverty don't involve themselves in such? Criminals are always criminals, regardless of circumstances.
Dishonesty. Illicit drugs. Criminals.
Was it hardship that made Bola to be dishonest about going to Chicago without primary and secondary education?
Was it hardship that made Jagaban to be Reno’s drug lord criminal in Chicago?
Freshtruth: Sporting Lagos players are playing with fire una dey play with una life .
Wetin Kano fans go carry una eyes see if una win this very game . If I kw say ur relations dey among the contingent to Kano tell am make he dey enter road ooo of he reach 80mins Kano pillars never ewualize
The game ended in 1-1 draw, just like Eyinmba held the Kano team to a draw in their previous match in Sanni Abacha stadium.
Racoon: This area is a well developed part of Lagos that was a serene wonder to behold far back then before the fella that claimed he tamed the Atlantic Ocean came to desecrate it wirh his hoardes of thugs, alayes, miscreants and all mannera of anti-social elements
Is this what happens when a ROOTless person is allowed to be in charge of a place
temitope277: So beautiful, unlike those people started polluting our land
The land that sold the most slaves? The land that still celebrates a notorious slave trader?
What can be more polluting than such criminal behaviour that persists today?
anonimi: The often cited biography titled Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker, authored by Nigerian historian Oladipo Yemitan, paints her views regarding slave trading.
On one occasion, during her final sojourn in Abeokuta, she was alleged to have sold a young boy into slavery and was accused of it. When arraigned before Ogundipe Alatise over the matter, she reportedly explained: 'I have a large house-hold and I must feed them well. I need money to do that, that's why'.
— Oladipo. Yemitan, 'Madame Tinubu: Merchant and King-maker'
Another section of Yemitan's Tinubu biography, referred to as the Amadie-Ojo Affair, captures a slave trading deal gone sour in 1853 (notably after the 1852 Treaty abolishing slavery in Lagos) wherein Tinubu tells another slave trader (Domingo Martinez) that "she would rather drown the slaves [20 in number] than sell them at a discount".
budaatum: Atiku would run as vice president to President Obi if Atiku really loved Nigeria.
If YOU really love Nigeria, then why would you propose that
In what way is Obi a better candidate than Atiku now, that he was not in 2019, which was five years after Obi’s Fidelity Bank protégé made him a destitute politician after his failed attempt to be Anambra godfather
Nelito1472: Atiku is not running for President to save the sinking nation called Nigeria but he is running to recoup the money he has been spending. Vote for Atiku is direct upgrade for Tinubu Promax cos Atiku will do worse
Do you expect Atiku to worse than Tinubu because 1999-2007 is worse than the past three years of Tinubu stagflation reforms?
Freshtruth: Sporting Lagos players are playing with fire una dey play with una life . Wetin Kano fans go carry una eyes see if una win this very game .
If I kw say ur relations dey among the contingent to Kano tell am make he dey enter road ooo of he reach 80mins Kano pillars never ewualize
How can someone display so much ignorance with plenty arrogance?
My home team of Shooting Stars beat Kano Pillars in front of their fans in Sanni Abacha stadium on 04 April 2024.
Any rowdy behaviour by Kano fans will get their team sanctioned to play in empty stadium.
Kalulu44: South Korea, China and other Asia countries that are Man United fans. What will you say about them. Do you know if I have lived in Manchester before. The Enyimba I am supporting, I am supporting them bcus it's my state team. I can't even rmbr when last I traveled to Abia state. So what will you say about that
How is our country comparable to South Korea, China and other Asian countries in terms of being Ma U fans, or anything else?
You should find out the wide range of socioeconomic impacts of English premier league in our former colonial masters country.
How many times have you watched Eyinmba matches live where you live? How many of their merchandise do you have and wear?
The answers to these questions will help you determine whether you are a fan of Eyinmba or not.
ElSudani: Basically what is supposed to be a short term or emergency relief had been the policy of the Nigerian government for something like forty years? When are you going to berate Trump who is causing all these problems for everyone including his own country by launching unprovoked attacks on another country? Perhaps you fear he might send you back to Nigeria? The organized labor movement you are calling upon were wrong before by blocking the sale of the now dead refineries to those who could have better managed them. Now, let them come back and raise hell about the rise in oil prices which is beyond the control of the government.
Before Trump started the Iran war in February, why did Tinubu fail to crash petrol prices below N185 as he promised, despite paying subsidy illegally to fuel importers from his Malta blending plants
anonimi: "Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
Atiku needs to call him to order, while working on his own political communication skills for correctness, tailored for different voting segments of the population.
Image123: Amaechi has made many empty promises on behalf of himself, APC, fPMB, Atiku and Obi. It's interesting that we have to search hard to see him make promises for the Jagaban. The man is indeed different.
Jagaban of Borgu does not need anyone to make empty promises on his behalf. He does a great job on that himself.
- crash petrol prices below N185 - achieve N300/$1 in the short term before reaching N200/$1 by May 2027 - create 50 million jobs in three years
One must be very empty to follow the balablu bulaba clueless town hall clown, don’t you agree
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun made this known at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. Mr. Edun said that the benefit of the subsidy removal will be plough back into various sectors to improve business environment for local and foreign investment. He added that with the increased revenue from subsidy removal, various palliatives have been made available to cushion its effect on a short, medium and long-term basis.
Ofunaofu: Report: Current Govt Added More Debt in Two Years Than Nigeria Accumulated in 55 Years
• Decries Nigeria’s debt service-to-revenue ratio
•Urges FG to declare fiscal emergency
A new policy brief has warned that Nigeria’s worsening debt profile and weak revenue generation have pushed the country into a dangerous fiscal position, with the current administration accumulating more debt in two years than Nigeria recorded during its first 55 years after independence.
The report, released by the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics LTD/GTE, a Nigerian policy think tank, argued that the country’s debt crisis has evolved into a governance and revenue emergency, as debt servicing obligations now exceed the federal government’s retained earnings. > > According to the think tank, Nigeria’s public debt rose sharply from N87.38 trillion in June 2023 to N159.28 trillion by the end of 2025, with President Bola Tinubu’s administration accounting for about N65.9 trillion of the increase within its first two years in office.
The organisation in the brief titled: “Nigeria Is Borrowing to Breathe—and the Clock Is Ticking”, noted that Nigeria accumulated only about N12.06 trillion in debt from independence in 1960 up to 2015, meaning the current administration added more than five times that amount in just 24 months.
The report stated that while previous governments also contributed significantly to the country’s rising debt burden, the speed of accumulation under the current administration had intensified concerns over fiscal sustainability.
“President Bola Tinubu’s administration has added a further N65.9 trillion in just two years. To put that in perspective: it took Nigeria’s first 55 years of independence to accumulate N12 trillion in debt. The current administration has added more than five times that amount in 24 months,” it argued.
It recalled that Nigeria briefly became almost debt-free externally after the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo secured an $18 billion Paris Club debt relief package in 2005 and paid $12 billion to extinguish about $30 billion in external obligations.
BetterScottish: Stop stepping on your 🧠 pick it up and put it where it's supposed to be, is Obi the governor of the state, you no see soludo to cry give, databoy
Should you not be addressing your post to the person who I replied, if you are not the one who should follow your own advice about what you are stepping on?
I am reposting the comment below.
Meanwhile, you can share Obi’s comments on this intratribal war in Anambra.
Arostar2023: What’s worst? Racism from a different race or vicious tribalism from your fellow countrymen that shares same race with you ?
The answer is in the migration flow between the two worlds.
The sad part is our ironical view that we have enduring underdevelopment because of oyinbos.
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.
He is too busy doing paparazzi photos for him to be concerned with the killings in Anambra.
Paparazzi photos for his 2027 DOA ambition to get the job of president. Kwankwaso is doing well in this regard, just like Utomi did in 2023, for the master strategist’s benefit.
BlackViper: The suspect, identified as Abdul-Rasheed Anjolaoluwa Oduola, is from Dagenham, East London, United Kingdom. He was apprehended by the Narcotics Unit of the Barbados Police Service in connection with the drug seizure.
Should we ask Oyinlola if Oduola is the real name?
saintkel: Another win of Enyimba...those guys have to put up d best
It's quite sad that Kanu Nwankwo must have felt the pressure and worked on the People's Elephant to get back in form just in time to defeat my home team from Ibadan for their first win of the season. We put up a good fight though, coming back from 4-0 to score 2 goals.
Hopefully we will get a win as usual at home on Sunday in Adamasingba. Nasarawa United should not be too much of a strong opponent.