APOPTOSIS: Thank you for ensuring a THUG never emerged as the PDP presidential flagbearer. It was a worthy thing you did. I can't imagine Nigeria being disgraced on an international scale by having a "presidential thug" represent Nigeria in UNGA and Ecowas meetings 😭😭😭😭😭
Please Tambuwal be willing to do the needful again if called upon, thank you.
Are you talking about that beggarly ologogoro wicked thing that grabs FCT lands with impunity because of the votes he delivered to make Tinubu have his own turn to continue APC extreme poverty shege
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.
callthefred: Like the one you offered as governor of Sokoto or as speaker that frustrated GEJ out of office.
The only legacy you have Sir is the U.S. bombing your district where terrorists have settled in so well.
Do you know why Tinubu frustrated PDP and Jonathan to make Tambuwal HoR Speaker instead of his fellow Yoruba woman?
Is it because the ayédèrú Iragbiji man is a Fulani man disguising as Iyaloja Mogaji’s son with a different surname
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.
seunmsg: Nobody is force feeding you with statistics. World Bank will do their job irrespective of your feelings. They don’t care about your negativity and bad wishes for the country’s economic outlook. They look at the economy and make their rational prediction
What is the need to force feed people with statistics, when they are voluntarily being fed free daily bread palliative, since Tinubu and APC are too clueless and incompetent to deliver promised jobs for earning a living in dignity
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.
That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
seunmsg: Peter Obi and his supporters, oya come and drop hot salty tears as usual
Is this how you and your APC leaders looters were dropping hot salty tears 😭 when PDP’s deregulation and privatisation policies gave us 16 years of widespread prosperity with high employment productivity.
This was when we had over 6% GDP growth rate consistently and low national debt.
For A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC people, this was not enough.
How much are 200 million Nigerians forced to subsidise the massive corruption in Tinubu’s oil sector for every litre of fuel now
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.
Bovis: Only desperate and expired politicians would align with Atiku. The man lacks ideology and the basic principles of democracy.
Atiku doesn’t believe in delayed gratification or strongly stands for anything except his selfish interest. I don’t see ADC as a formidable opposition party under his leadership. No serious politician will join/decamp to the party
Did Obi align with Atiku in 2019, because the failed Anambra godfather wannabe is a desperate and expired politician?
How can Atiku’s consistency on privatisation and deregulation mean that he lacks ideology? What is your own ideology sir
If Atiku doesn’t believe in delayed gratification then why did he refuse northern pressure to make Obasanjo a one term president in 2003? This was the year that Buhari asked us to employ him as president for the first time.
Paragon311: Atiku is aLso guilty of the accusation.
As a Fulani man, has he ever condemned any atrocities these criminals done?
Even the one of Deborah that he stylishly did, he brought it down because of Politics.
Nigerian political class and elites are two faced in the affairs of the Country.. !
Is there anyone in our political class who is more two faced than Tinubu?
What did he say about Deborah’s death?
Why did he oppose fuel subsidy removal in 2012 before endorsing it in 2016 and implementing it AGAIN in 2023?
Why did he support Tambuwal to be HoR Speaker in 2011 instead of Mulikat Akande, and then turned around to say that PDP and Jonathan were marginalising Yoruba people?
Why did he say that Buhari was expired in 2011, before making him APC change messiah four years later
Predictor3: You must be very young or completely uninformed. $16bn was appropriated for power industry under PDP. It was stolen. $12bn was given to Anenih under PDP it was stolen.
No infrastructure built in 16 years. I'm beginning to think I'm conversing with one of these uninformed hateful headless mob.
How are two unproven allegations an answer to the question of whether Nigeria is better off during PDP deregulation and privatisation prosperity years than our country is now
Guestmale: The economy was stable while fg was borrowing money to pay subsidies on fuel, foreign exchange and pay workers salaries.
Today we couldn't point to any infrastructure started and completed by the regime with all the monies we made from the oil boom. Let me remind you if you have forgotten,the government of Buhari in 2015 have to bailed out many states that has gone insolvent which couldn't even paid their workers but have to tell their workers to come to work 3 or 4 days in a week so as to help them and reduce their burden.
The economy was so stable that petrol cost N87 and the dollar exchanged for N200, while borrowing was minimal compared to the cluelessly incompetent APC olodos who scammed us with their positive change promises.
What has changed since 2015 for better in Nigeria? Just one thing. Name one thing that has changed since then for better. Can you
Menclothing1: I can’t even argue with Someone who don’t know Atiku have rule Adamawa under military rule And someone who don’t know lagos water cooperation exist the only state that feed 3 local government in the state follow by oyo and Enugu Nigeria In Adamawa not even the ministry exist
Who need pipe borne water most Adamawa
When did Atiku rule Adamawa?
What year was that? For how many years did he rule the state?
jmoore: Aligning with the center. Kaduna APC, Federal government Tinubu APC. Still una dey collect wotowoto from terrorists.
Where is Tinubu sef? Always governing Nigeria from hospitals abroad.
Our president is busy looking for cows in Paris after having AI generated picture of lunch with Kagame, while the Rwandan president was celebrating new year in his own country.
Abi it is in Dubai that he is looking for cows now
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
This cannot be true since the butcher of Kaduna is no longer in government.
Who is telling lies against clueless and incompetent Tinubu
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.
zoedew: Prophet of Doom who won't step down for younger candidates in the opposition to effectively challenge the current President in 2027 elections.
Why should he step down for younger candidates instead of letting them test the acceptability of their records and visions at party primaries and the election proper?
Why should he step down when he was the foundational brainbox of PDP deregulation and privatisation prosperity we enjoyed for 16 years of low debt burden? The privatisation of NNPC's petrochemicals division to Indorama, for example.
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.
Guestmale: During the PDP regime Nigeria experienced the highest oil boom in the history of Nigeria selling for over $110 but we didn't see anything it was been used for, but instead it was looted and misappropriated.
Dasuki and Disiane just to mention but few looted the gains made from the oil boom to the point that fg have to be borrowing money to pay workers salaries.
Life is truly difficult for blind people who can't see what is clearly visible to others.
Ask Wale Edun to show you what you can't see.
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
iwaeda: Her late husband, Chief Victor Olabisi Onabanjo (12 February 1927 – 14 April 1990), was a renowned Nigerian journalist and politician of Ijebu extraction.
Before venturing into politics, he built a notable career in journalism and was widely known for his forthright newspaper column, Aiyekooto, a Yoruba word meaning “parrot,” symbolising blunt truth-telling.
Born in Lagos in 1927, Onabanjo was educated at the Baptist Academy, Lagos, and later at Regent Street Polytechnic in the United Kingdom, where he studied journalism between 1950 and 1951.
He worked with several newspapers, including the Daily Service and Daily Express, where his Aiyekooto column ran between 1954 and 1962.
He entered politics under the influence of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and was elected chairman of the Ijebu Ode Local Government Area in 1977. In October 1979, he emerged as Ogun State governor on the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).
Widely regarded as unpretentious and plain-speaking, Onabanjo’s administration was considered a model of governance at the time.
His government established key institutions, including Ogun Television, which was commissioned on 13 May 1982, and Ogun State University, founded on 7 July 1982 and later renamed Olabisi Onabanjo University in his honour in 2001.
He also established the Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, which was shut down following the 1983 military takeover but later reopened after the return to democratic rule in 1999.
These are the real progressives of days gone by, unlike the progreThieves of today who only disguise with Awo cap while looting us like loonies.
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.
Guestmale: What gives rise to prices of these commodities are pms and foreign exchange subsides removal which both Alhaji Atiku and Mr. Peter Obi also promised to remove if voted for,
the policies many economic gurus has been advocating for, for sometime.
Tinubu and APC progreThieves have not been advocating for subsidy removal.
Rather they wickedly played politics in 2012 with the issue, using Buhari's 2011 failed running mate to lead Ojota protests.
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) national leader and former governor of Lagos State, has accused the Jonathan presidency of betraying its social contract with the people by suddenly removing fuel subsidy.
He, however, provided a window out of the crisis: if subsidy must be removed at all, it must never be at one fell swoop. Rather it must be on calibrated basis, on which the promised gains are measured and confirmed before moving to the next phase of removal.
“Government must modify the sudden and complete removal of the subsidy. Either we restore the subsidy or use the funds for other social purposes,” Asiwaju Tinubu counselled in a special release he captioned, ‘Removal of oil subsidy – President Jonathan breaks social contract with the people’ and which he personally signed.
The former governor cautioned the federal government against economic policies that tend to balance the books at the detriment of the people’s welfare.
"As there is progressive politics, there is progressive economics. As there is elitist politics, there is elitist economics,” Asiwaju Tinubu explained. “It all depends on what and who in society government would rather favour. The Jonathan tax,” he declared, “represents a new standard in elitism.”
“He is slave to wrong-headed economics,” Asiwaju Tinubu said of President Goodluck Jonathan, “the people will become enslaved to greater misery. This crisis will bear his name and will be his legacy. The people now pay a steep tax for voting him into office. The removal of the subsidy is the ‘Jonathan tax’,” he insisted. “The situation shows that ideas count more than personalities. People may occupy office but how that person performs depends on the ideas that occupy his mind"[/b]
Seeplusplus: Can you please provide details of how Tinubu is more shameless and useless than Atiku
Even though you find it impossible to answer my question, I will answer yours very easily.
Tinubu said that Buhari was expired in 2011 but turned around to package him as APC change messiah four years later. Do you have any comparable wickedness for Atiku?
Tinubu was Lagos governor for eight years and his TAX monster plan is being followed for the past 27 years of 100 times increase in budget squeezed out of the people without matching services and utilities. Do you have any comparable lootocracy for Atiku?
Tinubu has saved $84 billion from subsidy removal, hit his higher revenue target in August when he claimed no more borrowing. Nevertheless he has borrowed more than previous presidents. Do you have any comparable uselessness for Atiku
fuckJones: Atiku should stop crying and face front..
Atiku should remember Maurice iwu,what goes around come around.......
We remember Maurice Iwu had already announced results while nigerians still on queues casting their votes. We remember Maurice Iwu announce a result, goes in, comes out and announced a different result. We remember Maurice Iwu announce results of polling units where election did not take place. We remember you could vote in one polling booth and go to another polling booth to vote. We remember how strangers were mobilized from one state to vote in another state. Multiple thumb printing, multiple voters, over voting, vote buying, ballot snatching, bloodbath were the trademark of Maurice Iwu's INEC. PDP supporters loved it at the time, they called it a free and fair election. PDP supporters who are the present day Atikulators who also changed into Obidients hailed Maurice Iwu as the best thing after slice bread.
Are you talking about the same Iwuruwuru guy that made Yar’Adua president in 2007 when Atiku lost his first election, with Buhari who was second time unlucky to get the job
Pootle: dont allow the govt dictate how far you go in life, sure they affect us in numerous ways but i dont allow political noise affect or influence my husl ethics. be it buhari or tinubu i wont allow any of it distract my husl spirit.
i implore you do same. many of the people online screaming govt this and that are buying cars building houses
Life is not about your individual self but about your different communities that we belong to.
What is the point of being a local champion, lone star ọkanlawọn one eyed king of blind people, who becomes an inconsequential nonentity in communities of people who all have two eyes 👀?
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.
press9jatv: Seyi Makinde don embezzled the funds meant for these victims. Nawaoooo
What would you say for Tinubu who embezzles trillions annually of Lagos budget and now does worse for the federal budget where he alone corners 53% of the federation account, while the 36 states share 27%?
MufasaLion: Abuja, one of the very few well structured places in Nigeria.
Lagos was also a relatively structured place when it was the FCT with Yar' Aduas father as Minister of Lagos Affairs during Nigeria's First Republic.
That was before five indisciplined Majors scattered our democracy and took us down the wrecking path of Pakistan instead of leaving us on the glorious path of India.
Since Tinubu and his Agbero Propaganda Congress, APC took over Lagos in 1999, everything has turned upside down with increasing TAX burden that is not matched by services and utilities provided by well paid civil servants.
no one have it all we keep striving till death come knocking
That was how Tinubu deceived us with APC change in 2015 using his expired Buhari of four years earlier, only to scam us with renewed hope in 2023 again.
Anyway, the OP should get a car that is fuel efficient since APC leaders looters have failed to deliver their promises for cheap fuel.
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
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.
FORMER Minister of Petroleum and Energy, Prof. Tamunoemi David-West, said that Nigerians should expect sharp drop in petrol price from the current N87 to about N40 per litre, saying, “the president-elect, Gen. Mohammed Buhari, will reduce the fuel pump price to N40 per litre.”
seunmsg: Less than 10% of Nigerians pay personal income tax. In fact, only those in well structured paid employment get to pay. Even at that, over 90% of them don’t pay up to 30%.
Again, it’s sad to see people ignorantly thinking their personal income taxes goes to FG. No, your taxes goes to your state government fully. Tinubu gets all the blame for the tax reform while state governors take every personal income tax. Even the VAT, states take 85% while FG takes 15%. Nigeria is probably the only country where the central government doesn’t take a dime from payroll tax. In US, Germany etc, FG takes the lion share from payroll tax. Not in Nigeria.
Is Tinubu among the 90% that don't pay tax since he has never shared his personal income tax returns like PDP's Jonathan did in 2015
How else will we know that he earns his bullion vans money legit instead of drug money as shown in Reno's documentary film?
swaggerjack: Reno Omokri: I Challenge Tinubu To Prove If He Was Not A Drug Lord In Chicago
edet19892015: Unless you understand your role in society, you can never make any meaningful contribution.
According to the Greeks, they are three types of people on Earth, 1. The idiots, 2. The tribesmen, and 3. The citizens.
Studies show only 10% of Africans are citizens. The remaining 90% are either tribesmen or idiots.
1. When the Greeks used the word "Idiot", they did not use it as a curse word. Idiots are people who just don’t care. If they sit for exams, they will cheat. If they are in government they will steal.
An idiot does not care at all, if he eats bananas he throws the peels anywhere instead of putting them in a trash bin.
IDIOTS won't attend monthly neighborhood meetings. They won't pay security dues. They won't contribute to community development. Even when they see or know about something that will harm others in the community they won't report it. When they see/know/have something that will benefit their community they won't share.
In fact, Idiots don't care to register for or vote in an election, yet they complain the most. If they register to vote, IDIOTS will sell their votes for peanuts.
According to the Greeks, some societies have more idiots than tribesmen and citizens.
2. The next set of people are "Tribesmen", these are people that look at everything from the point of view of their tribe.
These are people that believe in you only if you are part of their tribe. It can be terrible to have a tribesman as a leader, he will alienate the rest.
When the Greeks talk about tribes, it’s not just about ethnicity, they also consider religion, gang membership, group membership, party membership and even cult membership as a tribe.
A great percentage of Africans are tribesmen, because they view everything from the point of view of their tribes. They trust only their tribesmen
3. The last group are "Citizens". These are people who like to do things the right way. They will respect traffic light rules even if no one is watching them.
They drive within speed limits. They respect the laws, and won’t cheat in exams. In government, they won’t steal. They are compassionate and give to others to promote their well-being.
Citizens often promote projects that benefit everyone. The Greeks called this group "The Citizens".
Some countries have more citizens than tribesmen and idiots, others have so many idiots.
A tribesman can become a citizen through orientation. And an idiot can become a citizen by training and constant enforcement of the law.
But things fall apart if you elect an idiot or tribesman to lead you if he has not been reformed.
Where do you belong? Are you an idiot, a tribesman or a citizen? Reflect on your life. Reflect about your immediate community, city, state and nation.
How come Nigerians and other Africans are fleeing countries with less tax to slave awaya in Germany and other exhorbitant tax places where free education for all children is available in schools with well paid teachers, among other benefits
anonimi: The migrant crisis in Libya and the Nigeria experience
The drive for survival and for greener pastures has continued to force millions of West African young men and women to gamble with death in attempts to cross over to Europe and other parts of the world. This quest to escape poverty, hunger, unemployment and insecurity, among other reasons, caused a major segment of Nigeria’s population to seek alternatives for better livelihood prospects for themselves and their families.
Those seeking economic survival see irregular migration as the best alternative, given the difficulty and resources involved in migrating through regular and legitimate routes. In many instances, very few of the original number who set out on these dangerous journeys live to tell their stories. While many regularly drown in the Mediterranean Sea, many also die in the deserts, and others are sold as slaves in a modern slave market.
Most of the victims of this trade are from West Africa. Many of them leave home with expectations of getting to Europe and other destinations perceived to have better economic prospects for them, but they end up in the slave merchant nets in North Africa. The victims are put in camps and sold in open markets in Libya, while the international community watches in silence. The geographical location of Libya renders it a transit route for migrants journeying to Italy and many other parts of Europe.
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.
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