What is the big deal about dropping out of university?
What has been the benefit of Wike’s university education to Rivers people whose money he stole instead of employing well paid civil servants to make water and basic healthcare available to all residents and basic education available for all children?
The same failure in the provision of government services and utilities that has marked his FCT tenure.
anonimi: Water Scarcity Hits Maitama, Embassies Affected
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
A severe water scarcity has hit the downtown area of Maitama District in the Federal Capital City over the last two weeks, Abuja Metro reports.
Many parts of the affluent neighbourhood have been struggling with lack of pipe-borne water as the Federal Capital Territory Water Board supply has been off.
anonimi: FCT Teacher’s Strike: The unfolding crisis that has kept Abuja’s children out of school for months
The industrial action is the third in a series since late 2024.
ByQosim SuleimanandZainab Adewale July 2, 2025 Reading Time: 4 mins read For over three months, public primary school pupils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have been out of the classroom due to a teachers’ strike.
The industrial action has seen multiple suspensions and resumptions and is the third since late 2024.
Kobojunkie: There are a type of girls that may chase you — prey on you for obvious reason—, but to say that women(generally) chase you as in truly desire you when you become rich? Nah!
That only happens in the delusions of men who have low self-esteem issues. 🥱🥱🥱
Women generally chase a rich/successful man, whether they TRULY desire you is irrelevant.
This is the essence of hypergamy.
Moreover, for both genders, success has many people famzing around it, while failure is an orphan.
erico2k2: Please tell me in simple and plane English what Tax was increased
I hope the English contained in the below post is simple and plain enough sir.
[quote author=Lanrelagboi post=133655707]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.
Jakarta: Thank God, I won't be eating like this everyday, else obesity, and constipation for gather me beat better beat. Those women, wan kill me with food.
Let me come and be going because I cannot come and kill myself with food.
Na wa oh!
Oga abeg drop location here so we can activate waist-focused Akapio's advice sharperly for your house and relieve you of the obesity and constipation temptation.
Omicronvaccine: Wherever You See Free Food, Eat It - Nigerian Senate President, Senator Akpabio Advises Nigerians
LLMG: It's not about tinubu, it's about atiku the terrorists sympathizer, no one wants any muslim especially a fulani muslim near the sit of power in Nigeria right now.
That party adc was formed by terrorists supporters.
In what way is Atiku a terrorist sympathiser that Tinubu is not even more of?
Would you mind providing details?
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.
erico2k2: No it wont cos it is balanced, Nigerians must learn how to Pay tax and hold leaders accountable.
We too as younger people should read all fru the whole documents of the tax review and make an inform argument in public, some adults here are talking like pry2 kids all cos they never took their time to read all of the document. VAT is still 7.5% no change. What change is the enforcement, we as Biz now have to get VAT registered, We now have to file in every month even though you sold nil, you cannot collect VAT if you are not VAT registered. Evidence of remittance will be demanded each month. Those coy who collect VAT and do not remit will be r outed out and fined. Only Customers pay VAT.
20 million Lagosians have been paying forever increasing tax to Tinubu for his lootocracy master plan since 1999.
Any idea why smart Lagosians have failed to hold APC leaders looters accountable these past 27 years for the 100 times increase in their tax burden, IGR and budget, such that hey don't even have ordinary water supply in their smelly homes
How do you now expect 200 million Nigerians to do what smart lagosians failed to do all these years of agbalowmeri TAX monster plan?
erico2k2: Point of correction, Subsidy was not removed, it was given a different name under the budget.
Please if subsidy was not removed, where did this APC administration see $84 billion savings and where did Tinubu get the revenue to hit his target in August last year, when he bragged that he is not borrowing money
The Federal Government says it has no intention to borrow from any local or foreign organisation with its removal of subsidy on petrol and exchange rate harmonisation.
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Chief Wale Edun, revealed this at the end of the inaugural Federal Executive Council meeting on Monday in Abuja.
He said that the benefit of the subsidy removal would be ploughed back into various sectors aimed at boosting government revenue and improving the business environment for local and foreign investment.
Edun said 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.
He reiterated the President Bola Tinubu-led administration’s desire to bring back the economy from the wood it has found itself over time.
TimeManager: The Federal Government has revealed that the elimination of the petrol subsidy under President Bola Tinubu has resulted in savings of over $84 billion, which are now being channelled into the construction and rehabilitation of 40 key road projects across the country over the past two years.
This was disclosed in a policy brief released by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), titled “Two Years Later: Key Benefits of Subsidy Removal,” and made available to journalists over the weekend in Abuja.
The report, which reviewed the outcomes of the subsidy removal since May 29, 2023, noted that the policy averted a looming economic crisis.
It also enabled the Tinubu administration to clear long-standing financial liabilities, increase capital investments, and support the financial stability of state governments.
seunmsg: And the new tax law has reduced the taxes of the big companies from 30% to 25%.
So, what is your point again?
My point is that the new tax law will give Tinubu LESS revenue to steal for the purpose of bribing politicians and buying votes for his reelection and eternal chokehold on 200 million Nigerians.
Mirasteel: They keep bullying small countries, let US go and bully it's mate Russia or China.
Is that not how the big guys in extended families and clans as well as villages and town unions bully the small fries
What is the difference?
Instead of crying uncontrollably, is it not better to quietly work to be big, wealthy and powerful while being pragmatic in your relations with the currently big guys?
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.
So why is the clueless leader looter of 200 million Nigerians inviting USA to bomb innocent northerners under the guise of hunting for Muslim terrorists who are committing genocide against Christians
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.
samdaisi: What some doom people just want to be hearing about this present government is evils because they have obsessed of evils, who soever that speak peace about Tinubu government automatically become their enemies,
Obi can't become Alaba president,Biafra president let alone of talking about president of federal republic of Nigeria
Was that how Tinubu was so obsessed with evil during PDP’s 16 years of widespread prosperity from deregulation and privatisation policies, that he packaged his expired Buhari as APC change messiah in 2015?
What has changed since then for better in Nigeria? Name just one thing o.
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.
symbianDON: Emperor Tinubu the great 👍 we hail thee
The Emperor is raising more money for his reelection and 3rd term agenda to be Nigeria’s first life president, with the support of France like Cameroon’s Biya.
Who will stop the Lagos TAX monster planner, in the way that Atiku led other patriotic Nigerians to stop Obasanjo in 2007, despite his Ghana must go bags of bribes to NASS members
Exousiang01: The same country where people have not being paying tax? Is it not when the tax is paid you can ask what the money is used for?
The subsidy was removed. Are th governors (even those in the opposition) not opening their own mouth to confess that they are getting record sums for allocation?
Why don't you pay the tax first.
You are not even paying tax yet you are complaining Do you even have a job or business?
Why do you think that someone needs to have a job or busines to pay tax in its different forms, which includes VAT on goods and services as well as levies, rates, fines, fees etc
Moreover, if extreme poverty paupers don’t work for the rich then how will the rich generate income for Tinubu to tax
If Tinubu’s TAX monster plan is successful in holding 20 million Lagosians captive since 1999 why change it for 200 million Nigerian mumus?
Lagos tax burden, IGR and budget have increased 100 times but the state is a mess of smelly waterless shithole, because the master strategist steals money that should employ workers to make ordinary water available to every household.
oluwaseyi0: Why are average Muslims sad or defensive when terrorists qre targeted by government
Do you want to find out from the Lagos TAX monster planner, who has been allowed to upgrade his strategy to federal level, with the same disastrous results
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.
It has become crystal clear, even to the most incurable optimist, that the country is adrift. That the ship of the Nigerian state is rudderless is clearly evident in the consistent and continual attacks ferociously executed by elements often referred to as the insurgents in some northern states of the federation, particularly Borno and Yobe states respectively.
Indeed, no part of the country is immune from the virulent but easy attacks, veritable indices of a failing state. Unfortunately, the tenuous and uncoordinated approach adopted by this government betrays a grossly incompetent disposition which stands at variance with current realities in the country, nay the international community where acts of terrorism are engaged and contained. No Governor of a state in Nigeria is the Chief Security Officer. Putting the blame on the Governors, who have been effectively emasculated, for the abysmal performance of the government at the centre which controls all these security agencies, smacks of ignorance and mischief.
Terrorist acts are perpetrated routinely and the government at the centre appears incapable of stemming the tide of the horrendous crimes unleashed on the hapless populace. The considerable ease, with which lives and property are destroyed on a daily basis, should excite deep introspection on the part of a government truly desirous of finding a lasting solution.
The Constitution provides that the safety and welfare of citizens shall be the primary purpose of having that structure of any political leadership in the first instance. This Government, through acts of omission and commission, has fallen far short of expectation. It actively encourages schisms and all manner of divisive tendencies for parochial expediency. Ethnicity and religion become handy weapons of domination. Things have never been this bad.
The response to the pervasive chaos in the Northern region of the country has been militarisation, mass arrests and extra judicial killings by the Joint Task Force, JTF, a convenient euphemism for an army of occupation seemingly set loose on the people of the localities concerned. The tenor of the State of Emergency declared by the Federal Government yesterday portends danger for the polity. The full militarisation of security operations in these states will compound the already tense situation.
Both local and international media are awash with news of reckless attitudes of the invading forces. The fact that security operatives are killed cheaply and reprisals from the state find expressions in organised pogroms in the immediate communities is sure evidence of a government which lacks basic understanding to appreciate the enormity of the current security challenges. If development is about the people, all measures put in place for the sustenance and maintenance of the super-structure of the society must take into cognisance local contents. It is evident from the grim experiences in recent times that this government has failed, or does not know that it is necessary for it to avail itself of the benefits accruable from exchange of ideas and notes on the latest in terms of technology and human resources among nations of the modern world, especially those which have been fighting terrorist organisations over the years, on the most effective mode of combating this menace. Technologically advanced countries of the world will never discard the idea on the need for the establishment of an effective local intelligence outfit.
They should be mocking the Nigerian leader looter who has no clue about fighting insecurity, which his expired Buhari was supposed to have ended since 2015 when he was packaged as APC messiah.
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.
DeepSight: + Section 137(1): A person shall not be qualified for election to the office of President if - (b) he has been elected to such office at any two previous elections.
Section 142(2) states:
"The provisions of this Part of this Chapter relating to qualification for election, tenure of office, disqualification, declaration of assets and liabilities and oaths of President shall apply in relation to the office of Vice-President as if references to President were references to Vice-President."
How do we know that this chapter relates to section 137(1)
igwethompson854: Is the religious sentiment then over now in Nigeria, the 2023 religious sentiment in Nigeria was a child play, it's now the killing have been attached to it that that we will vote him for freedom of worship
What makes you think that there is enough Christians who see freedom of worship as the ONLY criterion for voting, to make Obi president
givedemwotowoto: Peter Obi won Abuja, Lagos, Edo, and Rivers, the most cosmopolitan cities in Nigeria with a healthy mix of people of all religions. In a 3-horse race, never been done in Nigeria.
When you people want to bring up religious sentiments, do it more intelligently
Igbo traders and Christians in those areas plus young gullible people who have a phobia for history and knowledge.
shortgun: Obi giving the structure of criminality sleepless nights
Peter Obi is an integral part of your structure of criminality. An excellent example of your criminality.
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
Kaa4: This argument is very lame. However, the issue of tribalism can never be wished away from our body politic, at least in the next election. This is why BAT is doing all he can to bring all the Governors into the APC. It is for self-preservation. He will be waiting for the Governors to deliver their states.
However, the APC will likely explode after the 2027 election. Power is it that brings all politicians together; power also destroys their parties.
Any idea why Tinubu’s Lagos coalition has not exploded in the past 27 years?
From AD to AC to ACN and now APC?
So why are you expecting the same strategist to fail at the federal level when he has greater access to our money for buying votes and influence
NaijaRoyalty: …Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money
However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”
Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.
He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.
Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.
saintkel: To dis guys, anything about Obi is not democratic but I keep asking....kwankwaso that got all his votes from Kano, no one is taking about that....y r people too focused on Obi....no one is even talking about Atiku again
What is stopping you from talking about Kwankwaso and Atiku?
How is anyone stopping you from speaking about them
wman: Sadly, they aren't thinking about the democratic wishes of the Nigerian mass.
They are looking at the power of INEC, the judiciary and the ruling party via various governors and politicians who have decamped to APC.
Is there any enlightenment work you can do to counter this hopeless situation
anonimi: “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.
He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.
The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht
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Racoon: The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout
PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.
It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.
Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.
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