franchasng: ....I am more concerned about the man who just made himself happy.....the girl too seems overjoyed and to me, that's cool. She is an adult; 18yrs.
Both of them are happy....in this life, if you want to live a fulfilled life, use what you have to get what you want legally not illegally or criminally......in this case; the man used what he has (money) to get what he wants (young wife) while the girl used what she has (beauty, youthfulness, vibes) to get what she wants (financially secured life), so its a win-win bro
Is this more prevalent among us because the men would rather be one eyed kings of blind people, extreme poverty paupers than have a widely prosperous society of well informed females and males, which then leads us into problems when we japa to societies that understand and practice Enlightened Self Interest, ESI
femi4: Did I engage in epl or la liga Continue to provide excuse for them. Are the citizens involved in SA or Morrocan league / welfare? I m sure you were a kid in 1999 That was the last time Nig hosted any meaningful football competition
Are you English or Spanish?
How are the citizens not involved in SA and Moroccan league? Is it Nigerian people like you that watch their games, and buy their merchandise etc?
airsaylongcome: Malta is a feudalistic, corrupt, rotten island. Make out boys dey go better countries abeg. I understand your point that “it’s in Europe”. But the football they play is not what will develop our players. Many many years ago, I lived with a footballer who used to play with Berger back in the day. He survived the air crash that Berger football club had back then. James Enagwuana. He played for Doxa FC in Cyprus after years playing in France Division 2 and briefly in Greece. Good friends with Taribo. Man said anything other than the major countries in Europe was a waste of time
Thankfully you have worked to make our country NOT to be feudalistic, corrupt and rotten.
airsaylongcome: Top strikers in Malta earn around €5k/month. That’s elite o. For a footballer, that’s pittance. Unless a footballer is not ambitious, €5k/month should not tickle them
Is it better than what a top striker earns in Nigeria? Is the quality of life in Malta better than in our own country?
Can the player move on from there after leaving Nigeria and improving himself in Malta
pocohantas: I have never seen any that was caught and looked good. The one wey Elumelu catch recently, na AI e use generate fine version for his dp. I was shocked at the disparity between his dp and live picture. You need to see his struggling mother begging.
The day I see a well-fed and accomplished internet troll, I will deactivate my account.
Dele Farotimi did not troll Afe Babalola on the internet. He did it in print, and there is no news about his mother begging the nonagenarian for mercy. That task was left to Yoruba Obas.
Richtaiwo: Watch the same clowns who have been screaming about his absence suddenly change their tune the moment they see this. Expect the usual garbage, “What is he coming to do?” “He should stay there, we don’t need him.” “We’ve enjoyed peace since he left; he’ll come back and disturb it.” Let’s be honest, they never wanted him back. What they wanted was his prolonged absence so they could keep screaming themselves hoarse. I’m pretty sure this report just ruined their little celebration.
Why are you grieving about the hypocrites of 2010 against Yar'Adua's prolonged absence who are suddenly silent now, like Egyprian mummies
QuinQ: Ok, the sky is falling. Let's compare - see below
Many thanks for sharing the details about our country's lack of any petroleum reserve.
Will that douse the excitement over America's fallen reserve, I doubt. We will rather get worked up over the misfortune of others than work to fix our own issues.
AMINDA: If it has truly waned, Obi will not be making a u-turn to now support the return of subsidy after being against it. It hasn't waned where it matters. It has only waned inside the figment of your imagination.
Atiku, and especially his supporters have to be more brutal in FACTUALLY destroying Obi's reputation, given that his supporters are more likely to shift to Atiku than to Tinubu.
Bluntemperor: How and Where were you,when your PDP Governors Could Not listen to Mama Okonjo-Iweala then- During GEJ ' that Excess Crude Oil 🛢️🪔 Money 🤑💰' Should be Saved ' and what eventually happened - All Money Got Missing ! So, What 'Accountability ' are you now talking,for that is Fake Life 🧬 Statement -many of you are living.
Who else is living a fake life more than the wicked soul in Aso Rock? The one who raises tax and debt burden on Nigerians, while making us buy expensive petrol despite continuing to pay subsidy illegally?
Who else is living a fake life more than the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics?
By the way, are you one of the beneficiaries of Remi Tinubu's akara empowerment, which is supposed to be a replacement for her husband's 50 million jobs promise
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
FSBoperator: What is this one spewing ? What is Dangote refinery refining is it palm oil ? And before Dangote refinery or NNPC refineries (which collapsed due to subsidies), small refineries owned by Shell and Mobile were operating in places like Bonny long before the civil war.
You failed to answer the question about gold refining here, why?
Thanks to PDP deregulation politicians who licensed Dangote refinery, when wicked APC leaders looters were playing politics with our wellbeing in 2012.
What small Shell and Mobil refineries are you talking about? Is this the typical balablu bulaba propaganda lies of APC people?
Finally, is Tinubu paying subsidy illegally because he wants to collapse Dangote refinery?
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.
FSBoperator: What was so difficult in smelting gold ores to get refined gold ? They have been doing this for thousands of years . No high tech required . Just a blast furnace hot enough to melt the ore and then scrape the impurities that float to the surface . Why were their gold ore processed outside the country ?
Is that how the gold in Nigeria is dealt with
What of our crude oil? Do we also refine it all locally?
chigator2: This is highly commendable and should be the case in all resource rich african countries.
How sustainable is this, if he is not employing enough well paid teachers to educate every single child free?
How will they get the skilled workforce to maintain the mines, not to talk about manufacturing improved versions of the machines, from adequately funded research and privately owned companies?
Is that not how previous initiatives have failed since we got independence almost seven decades ago, such that we are now praying and fasting for japa visas to the former colonial masters?
Do you think that we should just ask them to recolonise us, instead of forever blaming them for our enduring underdevelopment
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.
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.
The musician must be inspired by the worst rogue politician in Aso Rock. The balablu clueless clown who spends on luxury while wrecking the economy with propaganda lies, fake promises and false announcements.
Can you spot the difference/ similarities between Burna Boy and the Lagos landlord
Majesty2: The APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has revealed how he will drive the economy of the country, strengthen the Naira and making the country "import less" while "exporting more".
It's the same MO for the worst rogue in Aso Rock. He has high taste for luxury bought from taxes and debt burden since he is clueless about making the economy productive so he can get the trillion dollar economy by 2030!
Abi, how much taxes can those empowered by Remi Tinubu to sell akara generate, since her husband has no idea about creating 50 million jobs promised before he fought for and grabbed power to run cluelessly with it like a headless pig
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
saintopus: Dangote wanted a monopoly, thank God for the victory. The PIA support it, open the market say no to monopoly.
There is NO monopoly since we have fuel produced locally by NNPC refineries for the past 11 years, according to All Promises Cancelled, APC leaders looters.
Why would any sane Nigerian want us to continue with these propagandist liars in progreThief APC assembly?
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has announced that the Port Harcourt and Warri refineries have been successfully re-streamed after a nine-month rehabilitation exercise conducted by its in-house engineers and technicians.
The corporation, in a statement, noted that both plants commenced preliminary production of petroleum products after successful test-runs, adding that while PHRC was ramping up its operation to about 60 per cent of its 210,000 barrels per day capacity, WRPC production was projected to hit 80 per cent of its installed 125,000bpd capacity.
The NNPC said the Port Harcourt refinery was projected to boost the nation’s local refining capacity with a product yield of five million litres of petrol per day, while Warri refinery would contribute 3.5 million litres of petrol.
Providing insight into the rehabilitation exercise, the NNPC noted that it had to adopt the phased rehabilitation strategy after the Original Refinery Builders, who were initially contacted for the project came up with unfavorable terms.
It said, “Though a decision was taken in 2011 to rehabilitate all the refineries using the ORB of each of the refineries, we were impelled to switch strategy after the ORBs declined participation and nominated some partners in their stead who came up with outrageously unfavorable terms.”
The NNPC stated that the nominated partners, as sole-bidders, came up with humongous price offers after two years of thorough and exhaustive scope of work definition and price negotiations.
It added that the proxies were also unwilling to provide post rehabilitation performance guarantees.
The corporation said, “The phased rehabilitation strategy which entailed phased and simultaneous rehabilitation of all the refineries using in-house and locally available resources in line with the spirit and letter of the Nigerian Content Law, also involved the use of Original Equipment Manufacturer representatives to effect major equipment overhaul and rehabilitation.”
The national oil firm said the phased rehabilitation programme, which started in October 2014 after the required funding stream was established, created a 70 per cent reduction in costs which helped largely in mitigating the financing challenges of refinery rehabilitation.
It observed that with the successful re-streaming of the PHRC and WRPC, attention has now moved to the 110,000 barrels per day Kaduna Refining and Petrochemicals Company which was billed to come on stream soon.
saintopus: Dec 06, 2024 The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai.
The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
slivertongue: While I am against importation, I also don't like the business strategy of Dangote. Government should sell crude to him at a cheaper price. But in the interim importation to lower prices will do. Dangote can't dictate for government and the citizens what to do
Do you have any record of China, India, South Korea or any other developed country making progress by paying subsidy to importers so that things can be cheaper than their own local production that creates jobs for people?
Kindly share such record.
Meanwhile is it not wicked that the worst rogue in Aso Rock is making us buy expensive petrol despite paying illegal subsidies to importers of fuel from their Malta blending plants? Can anyone be more wicked and useless than the balablu bulaba town hall clown who scammed his way into Aso Rock
anonimi: "Tinubu made living in Nigeria expensive. I will make Nigeria affordable again" - Alhaji Atiku Abubakar
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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.
XtremeConsumer: he didnt make tinubu president, Nigerians did. tinubu lost kaduna and tinubu locked him up for his atrocities like being terrorist { according to obidient}. your agulu fraud is friend with him
Did Nigerians make Buhari president in 2015, or Tinubu made him as he claimed in Abeokuta below?
How can anyone be more of a terrorist than Jagaban of Borgu who begged Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president after their party invited terrorists to destroy Nigeria
anonimi: What group of politicians is more wicked than A-looter Propaganda Conmen, APC
Mrexcell: It will take u haters centuries to fully understand Obi's kind of politics
Lovers understand his kind of politics already.
bennybuhari: “’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.
“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.
“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
The Vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Peter Obi has advised Nigerians not to allow few politicians determine the future of the country but see themselves as stakeholders by being actively involved in the forthcoming general election.
Mr. Peter Obi stated this while addressing members of the Igbo Community in Benin on why Alhaji Atiku Abubakar should be elected as president.
Tenses: PO is the only politician with genuine empathy for the oppressed. PO is the president that Nigerians crave for. Forget all the shenanigans from tinubu’s supporters. Deep down they all pray 🙏for the presidency of PO. Who no like better thing? Hell rufia whom I maintain is suffering from his past sins will do the right thing by advocating for a southern president. Atiku is gaining from the incarceration of Hell rufia, that's why he don't really care if Hell rufia rot in jail. Despite not being in the same party with PO, PO still care about Hell rufia. For PO, it's humanity first before anything. Nigerians will get it right this time around in 2027. And if inec wants to play a fast one, Nigerians will resist them with blood and sweat. I shall lead from the frontline.
Empathy for the oppressed and humanity are far, very far from the naive politician whose tribalism helped Tinubu grab power in 2023 from Buhari.
anonimi: Anambra doctors call off strike after 13 months February 28, 2012
After over a year of down tools, Anambra State Government employed medical doctors have finally called of strike. According to Dr. Emma Ekwesianya, Chairman Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), the striking doctors decided to pick up tools again because of the plight of the ordinary people in the societ. “It is true, we have called off the strike. We have just signed the agreement with government about an hour ago. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) signed for the government. A technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu was set up to execute the agreement.” He confirmed.
“We decided to take the 60 per cent offered by government because of our people. Government has been rigid and we do not want to continue with the rigidity of government. We are serving the people, not government and our people are suffering.” Speaking further, Ekwesianya, revealed that a technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu had also been set up by the association to see to the implementation of the agreement with government sequel to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peter Obi-led government on Monday.
Chief Medical Director, Anambra State University Teaching Hospital (ASUTH), Amaku, Awka, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor also confirmed the new development: “Well I’m happy to tell you that the strike has been amicably resolved, even though, like you said, it’s been a prolonged one but suffice it to say that it has been resolved and the doctors have resumed work.” “The call off was yesterday (Sunday). The doctors had some negotiations and held their congress yesterday, during which they agreed to call off the strike. So they resumed duty today. They are in their clinic. Well, I was not privy to the agreement but I will say that our representatives were satisfied with the arrangement, hence they decided to call off the strike.” He disclosed.
Tenses: Kwankwaso has made great inroads for OK in the North than Amaechi has done for Atiku in the south. Go figure!!
This Kwankwaso or another one? The man who has renewed hope for 2031 that the master strategist will fail to get a 3rd term for life president, like Obasanjo failed in 2007?
Kwankwaso is the new Utomi.
As a VP to Peter Obi, he will lose and I will lose because No northerner will ever vote an ibo man as president — Kwankwaso 😳🔥👇 pic.twitter.com/YRBzWRbzvs
lexylaw40: The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
The governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Oyo State, Tawfiq Akinwale, [/b]on Wednesday [b]stated that the “President-elect” Bola Tinubu asked popular economist, Prof Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi in the buildup to the 2023 general elections.
Akinwale made this revelation while he appeared as a guest on a radio programme on 101.7 YES FM, Ibadan, Oyo State, while alleging that Obi received campaign funds from Utomi, whom he described as Tinubu's "son."
The LP aspirant, who spoke in Yoruba language, said "In the buildup to the 2023 elections, Obi who had purchased the nomination form of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), suddenly announced his exit from the party.
"Initially, Pat Utomi had secured the LP's presidential ticket, but when Peter Obi said he resigned from the PDP and joined the LP. Bola Tinubu, a master political strategist, quickly told Utomi, that everyone knows to be his son to step down for Obi.
"The “president-elect” saw in Obi's presidential bid, a good chance to reduce the winning chances of the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar.
"What Peter Obi didn't know is much more that what he knows, he started collecting campaign funds from Utomi, while Tinubu was giving the money to Utomi.
"This went on until Obi's presidential campaign got to a stage it went beyond target. Obi was used without him knowing," Akinwale said after announcing his departure from the party.
Obi defected to the LP after resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also withdrawing from the presidential race under the party.
The former governor consequently joined the race for the party’s presidential ticket, while Professor Pat Utomi, in June 2022 stepped down for him to emerge as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, unopposed in Asaba, Delta State.
seunmsg: My own na just to laugh at Pengiun2, Racoon and other delusional obidients who think Fulani woman Aisha Binani will support an Ibo Christian against Atiku, the Kachalla of the Fulani insurgents. Babachir don dey clear una small small.
How is Jagaban of Borgu not more Fulani than the Sultan of Sokoto, with the way he bends over backwards to side with them? How is the serial betrayer of Yorubas and southerners not the kachalla of Fulani insurgents
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.
Dogalmighty17: Government is collecting all manners of loans and yet can't pay contractors.
If Tinubu said that Jonathan was running a voodoo economy then what is the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics running?
anonimi: March 8, 2013 Nigeria operating voodoo economy – Tinubu
FORMER Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, dissected Nigeria’s economy and declared that the country was operating a voodoo economic policy that is pauperising the citizenry and urged urgent economic surgery to save the polity.
For instance, Tinubu wondered why the Federal Government is maintaining a foreign reserve of $46 billion with one or two per cent interest and shouldering a load of $42 billion domestic debt, which it services with 16 per cent interest.
“This is voodoo economy,” he said, adding, “they are operating it because they don’t know what to do. It is choking the private sector.
“We must in this country do away with the idea of ‘it is better save the money and spend the people.’ Rather I will say we should adopt the policy of ‘it is better to save the people and spend the fund.’
How will any of these thing be realised without free education for all children in schools with adequate number of well paid teachers?
It's quite sad that Osoba, Daniel, Amosun and Abiodun have ruined the progressive legacy of Awolowo and Onabanjo in this regard for over 27 years of reckless looting, supported by clueless people. That failure is depite the Obasanjo/Atiku administration's UBEC matching federal funds established 27 years ago to help states achieve nine years of free and compulsory education for all children.
PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities.
Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration.
However, when PREMIUM TIMES late in 2022 toured the three senatorial districts of the state, our reporter found facilities in many public schools still in deplorable conditions.
The renovation project was executed with a N10.2 billion fund jointly contributed, equally, by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the state government.
UBEC released its share of the fund to the state government in 2019 to address infrastructural decay and inadequate facilities in 236 public schools across the state.
illicit: Asiwaju is working real hard to keep us safe... Vote him again in 2027 😘
Jagaban of Borgu says you don't know anything about how much he has ruined our country.
Do you know what RISING means
anonimi: May Day: Hunger, unemployment, insecurity real— Tinubu
According to him: “The theme demands our collective attention and serves as a stark reminder of the need to create an environment where every worker feels safe, valued, and empowered to contribute to the growth and prosperity of our nation. As your President, I assure you that this administration is committed to creating such an environment for the common good.”
On the economic hardship, he noted that while it is a global phenomenon, its effects on Nigerians are particularly severe.
Tinubu said: “I am aware of the peculiarities of the economic hardship Nigerians face—rising living costs, hunger, insecurity, unemployment, and the loss of livelihoods. These challenges are real and demand definitive solutions, which I am poised to address as your President.
AsomughaChuks02: Peter Obi is a pathological liar who cannot be trusted. Telling lies complete him. He is nothing without lies.
Is Obi more of a pathological liar than the master strategist of a-looter propaganda politics in Aso Rock? Or is Obi less of a pathological liar than him
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.
Uniquewise: Such an indecisive character, the bane of people-pleasers.. He will be so easily controlled by Kwakwanso, if, in the unlikely possibility, the pair makes it to the No One seat, God forbid it
Obi may be a nice person, compared to others, but certainly not the leader Nigeria needs to rule us at this time.
What exactly is nice about this very wicked rogue
anonimi: Anambra doctors call off strike after 13 months February 28, 2012
After over a year of down tools, Anambra State Government employed medical doctors have finally called of strike. According to Dr. Emma Ekwesianya, Chairman Anambra State chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), the striking doctors decided to pick up tools again because of the plight of the ordinary people in the societ. “It is true, we have called off the strike. We have just signed the agreement with government about an hour ago. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG) signed for the government. A technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu was set up to execute the agreement.” He confirmed.
“We decided to take the 60 per cent offered by government because of our people. Government has been rigid and we do not want to continue with the rigidity of government. We are serving the people, not government and our people are suffering.” Speaking further, Ekwesianya, revealed that a technical committee, headed by Prof. O.O. Mbonu had also been set up by the association to see to the implementation of the agreement with government sequel to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Peter Obi-led government on Monday.
Chief Medical Director, Anambra State University Teaching Hospital (ASUTH), Amaku, Awka, Dr. Lawrence Ikeakor also confirmed the new development: “Well I’m happy to tell you that the strike has been amicably resolved, even though, like you said, it’s been a prolonged one but suffice it to say that it has been resolved and the doctors have resumed work.” “The call off was yesterday (Sunday). The doctors had some negotiations and held their congress yesterday, during which they agreed to call off the strike. So they resumed duty today. They are in their clinic. Well, I was not privy to the agreement but I will say that our representatives were satisfied with the arrangement, hence they decided to call off the strike.” He disclosed.
gr8ofnnetwork: The fact that Atiku, Obi and other contestants do not have anything to campaign on except for Subsidy, shows that the incumbent is doing well. Shame on them
Shame on those who have a tunnel vision and blindside themselves to endure more of Tinubu's hardship.
Atiku's campaign is to return us to the deregulation and privatisation driven prosperity, peace and security with cheap petrol less debt & tax burden PDP era.
What would make a sane Nigeria allergic to such better life
"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.
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