yemre: Don't blame him. Remember they hardly see good things as a result of their state of mind
Can you see the good things in prioritising uncompleted roads instead of employing workers and paying them well to make water available in the federal capital territory of the giant of Africa
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.
free2ryhme: Commissioning left right and centre yet no improvements in the welfare and lives of citizens
Oshiomhole’s Association of Past Crooks, APC is only interested in using the commissioning of uncompleted projects to hide their stealing, corruption and fraud schemes.
They are not interested in the welfare and lives of 200 million Nigerians. This is why they are mocking us for the extreme poverty created by their policies of corruption and incompetence.
Omicronvaccine: Wherever You See Free Food, Eat It - Nigerian Senate President, Senator Akpabio Advises Nigerians
As an assignment...google for the article Pass the books and hold the oil, and then work within your party to get those ideas implemented.
I am not God, and I cannot decide whether Ogechi or Maimuna is better for you, whether you should eat at The Place or Sheraton tonight, or answer this your question. I have told you why we are a mess, and explained why I think the way I think.
How did I ask you to decide anything for me?
I simply asked you:
Which one of the two parties has the better economic record and policies to do what you want
BlocksNG: see words coming out from a whole minister of grab and run. Zoo
Mocking the poor is a passion for the cluelessly incapable leaderslooters of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Crooks, APC where sins are forgiven for those who are loyal to the party hierarchy.
This is how they show their empathy and IntegriThief.
Omicronvaccine: Wherever You See Free Food, Eat It - Nigerian Senate President, Senator Akpabio Advises Nigerians
nairalanda1: And then there was the 1973-82 period. Economy looked great.
But at the end, it was an illusion fuelled by high oil prices, just as your PDP economy of 2009-14. (I know you won't like this, and you will think I am defending APC, but bear with me before you get annoyed).
Venezuela too had a boom economy in the 1970's. Caracas was a happening town. Then the oil price fell in 1982, and by 1984, Venezuelans were eating from the refuse dump.
Same thing happened between 2007-14, and now the country is in a mess too.
And I doubt that tinubu was running the country during the lean times.
My mission on this site for you APC and you PDP supporters, because you both play for the same team, just different factions....is simple. Strong nations use what they have to make stuff the world needs. Weak nations just sell resources, just sell oil
But you are so convinced I am defending tinubu, that you miss the main point.
Ah well, at the end, you want PDP back. Well, I don't want PDP or APC back, just a government that would take us off oil, because our oil depdnency always leaves us vulnerable when the prices drop.
Which one of the two parties has the better economic record and policies to do what you want
yyba: Shame on Ruben abati , abati failed as spoke man of Jonathan completely. The worst spoke man in history
Is it a bigger shame or is it a smaller shame that Wike kicked out Obi from PDP to help ebilokan get his Aso Rock reward for making his (Wike’s) own political benefactor a one term president?
How could ebilokan replace Jonathan in 2015 with someone who he called expired soldier four years earlier? How could he have done that
anonimi: 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.
nairalanda1: The only way to crash the exchange rate is to develop an economy based on the export of manufactred goods and services...not just refined products.
We won't see a stronger naira...and Lord knows, I have been hearing about the naira's weakness since the 1980's...until we export things like radios, cars, cutlery, televisions, etc...that were made in Nigeria.
The problem is, we have built an economy, since independence, that has been based on exporting raw materials and sharing the money.
Your PDP that you are praising, the reason why people were fooled by APC was that they were angry that the naira was weak....and had fallen from N1 to 1 dollar in 1978 to N120 by 2012. APC even made matters worse because instead of using 2015 as a new start...they chose to ramp up the borrowing....because they did not want to make hard and unpopular but MUCH NEEDED reforms to our economy.
And then you Nigerians want stuff for free. Cheap fuel, cheap electricity, cheap everything. Abi e no cost money make these things?
Anyway, if PDP wins tomorrow, they cannot reverse the decline of the naira, and if Tinubu rules till 2041, he cannot reverse the decline of the naira, until people and leaders wake up and realize what china did to go from being behind SIerra Leone in gdp in 1974 to lending to SIerra Leone today.
Wale Edun knows something about privatisation and deregulation focused capitalist PDP that you don’t know.
Was Dangote refinery licensed by PDP’s Jonathan as part of the 2012 deregulation of the petroleum downstream sector that Fayemi and APC played politics with, so as to jeopardise the economic wellbeing of 200 million Nigerians?
How long did it take Glo to crash the prices of telecom services after PDP’s deregulation of the market? Definitely not up to 13 years, which is how many years now since the 2012 protests were led by Buhari’s 2011 running mate, pastor Tunde Bakare.
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
hisexcellency34: Two days before the PDP primary, having realised the body language of the stakeholders that it wanted to give the party’s ticket to moneybags, Obi resigned from the PDP over what he called “issues that are at variance with my persona and principles” and joined the Labour Party (LP)
If Obi has any governing principles why did he allow himself to be chased out of privatisation and deregulation capitalist PDP into the communist LP labourers camp by Wike, who was only working for ebilokan’s easy access to continue APC shege of corruption, incompetence, inflation, poverty, unemployment, underemployment, insecurity etc?
anonimi: 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.
EponObi: If not that this nation was sick, how can a oil producing nation like use be importing up to 400,000 BPD. That's so ridiculously. And on top of that, the FG paid subsidy on all that massive quantity.
We must be truly sick to import barrels of crude oil instead of litres of refined petroleum products.
helinues: Good. Nigeria is in the right direction with president Tinubu
If the story is true then why is ebilokan still borrowing money despite subsidy savings, devaluation of Naira and increased taxes on the poor?
Any idea sir why
Is the Lagos landlord and Yorubalokan proponent simply stealing money to buy politicians for his reelection to continue APC shege for another four years?
ManirBK: Aug 28, 2023 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.
Can you guys please explain how this is positive news or great news when it has not helped ebilokan crash the exchange rate in the short term as he promised?
anonimi: World Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate
April 23, 2023
The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to *bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.*
“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.
“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years, Tinubu stated.
When will petrol price drop below the January 2023 level as promised by ebilokan?
Hungry, starving, unemployed, underemployed Nigerians want to know before APC’s shege hyperinflation kpai all of us.
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.
However, pump price of fuel hit N537 per litre days after Tinubu ended subsidy.
On Tuesday, the price climbed further to N617, a development that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL) attributed to “market forces”.
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.
King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, a Fuji musician who performed at the rally, interrupted the president’s speech with chants as the crowd cheered.
On the campaign podium with the president were Vice-President Kashim Shettima; Pa Bisi Akande, interim National Chairman of the APC; Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President; Senator Gbenga Daniel; among other bigwigs of the ruling party.
Tinubu went further to say Nigerians would defy the acute fuel scarcity at the time and trek to cast their votes.
“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/N500 per litre. Go and relax, we will crash the prices,” he had said.
amaridigital: And the best option for Igbo will always be Obi while other ethnic group should ignore their own and join your 99% block votes for him right? Continue daydreaming. Hallucination is free.
This was the daydreaming hallucination that helped ebilokan access our treasury in continuation of APC shege that was fraudulently sold to us as change.
Wike’s game to kick out Obi from PDP really helped ebilokan no be small.
jameshankss: Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
fergie001: Nyesom Wike during the commissioning of roads at Apo, Abuja
Should they support him because he allowed Wike to increase their tax burden for revenue generation outside the TSA, without employing them to make something as basic as water supply available to their homes
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.
richiemcgold: I can still recollect how Tinubu was really sidelined during Buhari's era. Man was totally schemed out and he almost lost political relevance. Some people even predicted he was on his way out of APC to SDP. But here he is today, he is the president of the federal republic of Nigeria. This is a big lesson for those who care to learn from others.
The sole focus of blacks on politics rather than government services and utilities as well as public policy matters is why we are inferior to equally endowed fellow Homo sapiens of other races.
How has ebilokan’s stranglehold on 20 million Lagosians and now on 200 million Nigerians helped anyone apart from his greedy self
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.
Christistruth02: Dele Farotimi was not even known as one of those who led the fight against the Military even Atiku fought against Gen Abacha and had to flee
Dele Farotimi can only be addressing his Obidient mob or ipob
Left to him he would ptefer to make Nnamdi kanu the chairman of Afenifere
Dele Farotimi derailed long ago
Atiku also fought against the third term agenda of Obasanjo, which is why Baba Iyabo has been telling lies about him to tarnish his reputation.
easytig: The worst part is when the people have been enslaved economically and they are praising their oppressors
I guess this is what oyinbos refer to as Stockholm syndrome affliction. How do we work to enlighten everyone and reduce the suffering of those afflicted
fuckJones: (A case study of Nigeria citizens & their elected oppressors).
During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph stalin. He was a brutal dictator with mind of his own. On one fateful day, stalin came to Politburo meeting with a live chicken. Standing in front of audience, He started to pluck the feathers of the live chicken off one by one. The chicken trembled in pain, blood tricking out of its pores. It gave out grievous cries, but stalin being a cruel dictator continued without remorse plucking the feathers out until the chicken was completely Unclad. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground. The Unclad chicken was staggering in pain. stalin goes into his pocket and from his pockets, he took out some chicken food and started to throw it at the poor & hapless creature. The poor chicken in pain started eating and stalin started walking towards his seat. As he walked away, he kept dropping some feeds on the floor & the chicken followed him and sat feeding from his feet.
Joseph stalin then turned to members of his political party leadership. He said, "This chicken represents the people". "You must disempower them, brutalise them, beat them up, starve them and then leave them". "If you do this, go into your pocket & give them peanuts when they are in that helpless and desperate situation, they will blindly follow you for the rest of their life, worshiping you". "They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that, you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place." Breath taking, isn't it ?
Now! Take a look at all the people some Nigerians are busy defending on social media. Take a look at those they call their heroes. They are the same people who plunged Nigeria into the situation she is. They are the same people who are responsible for their predicaments. Did you see the numbers of people that throng to Saraki's House during this Sallah period to go collect peanuts? People trooping to Bola Ahmed Tinubu Foundation offices to collect branded One kilo bag of Rice & Noddles. Did you see the number of people of all ages who troop out to welcome Ex- convict James Ibori to South South! Do you see the number of handle mop following obi as if he is a seat? what of the one following dino malaye?
Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! Pass to all your contacts & let your Political & Religion Leaders read, understand & digest.
bolaayenimo: And businessmen will always recoup back their investments
Understandably so when the people are too lazy to do anything for themselves but prefer to wait for a messiah to do everything for their own salvation.
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.”
SoftSport: Oyetola is not just watching, he wants to bring APC back to power in Osun, and with APC's strong support and Tinubu working hard as president, the party is really trying to make life better for everyone.
Ebilokan is indeed working hard to make life worse for everyone after his clueless predecessor was thought to be the worst.
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.
Is he banking on the remote control of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Crooks, APC for votes like they did in Edo recently
Symphony007: Buhari reveals how APC won Osun governorship with ‘remote control’
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, while appealing to traditional rulers in Osun State to support his reelection to enable his administration consolidate on its achievements, revealed that APC was able to win the state’s governorship election held months back with the aid of remove control.
Buhari, who failed to provide details of what he meant by remote control, said: “I know how much trouble we had in the last election here. I know by remote control through so many sources how we managed to maintain the party (APC) in power in this state.”
Reference: Africa generally has a good record. But skeptics will tell you it is because there are far fewer flights in this part of the world and it is only a question of proportions.
I mean if you watch 'flight radar', much of Africa looks like a desert compared to the jungle of aircraft movements over Europe, America and the far East.
How are statistically accurate people equal to skeptics
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.
Tjra: “Do not be afraid to hear an unkind word spoken against you. Some of the best advice a politician gets sometimes comes from his most ferocious opponents.”
What a man!
Just like Donald Trump, he has a thick skin and loves freedom of expression.
Why is he failing to do like Trump in fulfilling his promises
ManirBK: Aug 28, 2023 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.
givedemwotowoto: The only thing a bad leader should do is apologize and resign, especially if they stole someone’s place.
This advice applies to all leaders worldwide
Why would ebilokan steal something that Obi and his supporters gave him unwittingly, after Wike pushed him out of PDP
jameshankss: Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
alanto: You must like Asiwaju. He only does what's right.
Good for democracy. For many years it will seem like they fought in vain but finally the are all being recognized and that's a good thing. Better late than never.
This is still continuing from where Buhari stopped
How is it right for ebilokan to squeeze out more money from us in taxes, higher fuel price due to subsidy removal and then buy more luxuries for himself while giving us daily bread palliative instead of promised jobs?
How is it right that he steals our money instead of employing civil servants and paying them well to provide services and utilities
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.
XAUBulls: STOP typing nonsense all over NL! A VERY childish and highly irritating behavior.
What Adams Oshiomole jocularly said towards the end of that video was NOT an encouragement of corruption but he was laying emphasis on the name Edo name "Iruobe" which means "I don't do bad." It's OBVIOUSLY CLEAR that Adams Oshiomole is one person who does NOT encourage corruption as an astute labor leader even though he is in politics like other labor union leaders from around the world. Period.
How you narcissistic and neurotic posters here on NL go about defaming people and putting negative labels on them simply because you don't like them or their political parties due to tribalism is confounding BUT NOT totally surprising at the same time.
Get a grip of your life and find something BETTER to do with it instead of always posting narcissistic comments here on NL.
If you and oshi-ọmọ-ole are not the narcissistic ones, you will share verifiable information about how many teachers he employed in his eight years of stewardship to Edo State, for all children to be in free primary and secondary schools.
Shebi he is a progreThief
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.
Vision101: Check the indices? Check the opinion of experts? Check what the governors are doing? Check our balance of payment (which means that we are gradually leaving the tag of import dependent nation). Check the stability of the naira vis-a-vis when the policy started. Check check the downward direction of the rate of inflation. Check accumulated due payments cleared. The airlines are back. Check the rate of provision of infrastructure. Check the profitability of companies. Check the rate of black market fuel back then and now. Check the absence of fuel queues that wasted valuable productive hours. All these for only two years.
Regimes are not judged alone on how much is a bag of rice and loaf of bread. Are you a glutton?
Ebilokan judged his own administration to be a failure.
If we want to stop borrowing, let us vote out tinubu and vote in a government that would diversify our economy
Better still, make the export of manufactured goods and services the basis of our economy
So long as most of our government revenue comes from oil and so long as we don't control the price of crude we will keep borrowing. That is why we have been borrowing for decades
Is ebilokan not doing it as he promised after using Obasanjo’s clueless Buhari to make Jonathan a one term president and changing PDP’s deregulation and privatisation capitalism for APC’s rice sharing corrupted socialism that is fraudulently called progressivism here?
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".
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.
CodeTemplarr: He should have done it himself when opportuned to. Yeye.
The yẹyẹ is out of this world. Imagine how he helped ebilokan swap the best president for the worst one a decade ago. The worst one until ebilokan took over his own turn to take APC shege to the extra level.
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
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