Originalsly: I'm a civilian ... I bear no arms nor have scores of trained arm bearers to support me in executing a coup.
I'm really disappointed with your response ... would've been better to not respond.
I am disappointed that you don't recognise your inability to work for what you want by any and every means necessary.
There are revolutionaries who were never in the national army. Find out and be inspired by them if you are not just atalkative who wants others to work for your desires and dash you the proceeds of their sweat as well as the risk of being tried and executed for treason.
DrDoc: Come to Abeokuta and ogun state in geberal and see how terrible the roads have become from extortion shops operated by sexurity agents and ordinary civilians.
Ogun is another state ruined by corruption of progreThieves pretending to be Awolowo’s progressive heirs.
Don’t they all deserve to be lynched and given the necklace roasting like petty thieves
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.
Instead of turning the metropolis into a truly global city of repute, the Lagos magician who makes taxes and IGR disappear has turned it into a glorified ghetto of school na scam agberos in different uniforms.
A shame that T-Pain has failed woefully in 25 years plus to provide the basics of modern society.
A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
Originalsly: Fair comment and question. Don't forget I said we need our Rawlings or Traore. Did either of the two ex military leaders take the bull by the horns like Rawlings or Traore? I'm not just talking title ... it's about title and action.
We have been in the democratic space for yearssss ....and have been making inputs .at the State and Federal levels ... but do we ever get the desired output? We don't ...the reason we are where we are today ...and in the foreseeable future if we continue on this same highway to debt and despair. Again ... it's about title and action ... I'm not proposing unaccountable soldiers to stage a coup.
Is it your view that we continue along the present highway of Democracy? ... mine is to make a detour.
Why are you not doing whatever you want a soldier do for you
Originalsly: I didn't.... but since you ask.... I'll propose a military coup. Yes we had that before .... And it didn't work ( same in Ghana and same in Burkina Faso). The political class needs to go and this can only be done via a coup.Our politicians are too corrupt ... too greedy .... are not interested in the development of the country and absolutely do not care about the plight of the citizens. Regardless of which Party is in power ... the country does not move forward period. We need to get rid of the leeches and this can only be done by a military coup ... hopefully we get it right this time (,,like Ghana with Rawlings and presently Burkina Faso with Traore). if we continue with democracy...and a "good man" is elected President ... he cannot stop the rot ... his hands will be tied by the system. We need our Rawlings or Traore to step up.
Two of the presidents in the first 24 years of return to democracy were recycled military dictators who did 16 years. Why would you forego the democratic space for you to make an input into how your local, state and federal governments are run to be replaced by unaccountable soldiers?
helinues: Then who are the people dying that you have been crying on their behalf? Your friends and relatives?
No. Your friends and relatives are the ones dying. It’s your wickedness and heartlessness that makes you not cry on their behalf.
Stampedes in Nigeria leave at least 32 dead during Christmas food distribution
Stampedes in Nigeria leave at least 32 dead during Christmas food distribution. A crowd surge at a church gate in Nigeria, driven by a severe cost-of-living crisis and an increasing number of pre-Christmas charity events, resulted in deadly consequences just days after a similar tragedy.
Wait for more of their governors to defect before the 2027 election
How many Nigerians are dead and buried because APC’s leaders are showing us shege instead of their promised change? Shege of worse inflation, higher unemployment, growing insecurity, greater poverty etc.
Is this how APC leaders show themselves as leaders of integrity
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
givedemwotowoto: With petrol subsidy, the average car owner in Nigeria saved about N140,000 monthly or N1.6 million annually on driving alone.
Since there’s no more petrol subsidy, what equivalent value has government added to the lives of Nigerians to warrant the removal of N1.6 million from millions of households in Nigeria?
Please don't stress yourself. Look no further than Bourdillon where the Chicago bookkeeper is adding the savings to the lives of Nigerians.
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance. That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
morgstreme: The fact remains that... because a slowpoke like you said it?
God have mercy on this country..
Too many DINGBATS roaming our nation..
Should God also have mercy on Wale Edun for saying the same thing as a moronn and a dingbat
The last time Nigeria’s economy was stable was about a decade ago – Wale Edun
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.”
Great100000: Among exporting companies, Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemical Limited and Starlink Global & Ideal Limited led the pack, with export earnings of $475.3 million (8.71%) and $456.7 million (8.37%), respectively. Their dominance was largely due to large-scale exports of Fertilizer and Cocoa products.
“Of the top 20 exporting companies in Nigeria, Indorama Eleme Fertilizer and Chemical Limited and Starlink Global & Ideal Limited secured the foremost position with $475,309,887.26, representing 8.71% and $456,740,920.00, representing 8.37% respectively. This is attributed to their notable export volumes of Fertilizer and Cocoa products,”
Would we have this good news if Atiku and Obasanjo’s PDP didn’t privatise the petrochemicals division of NNPC to Indorama
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said politicians’ sins are forgiven when they join the ruling party.
Oshiomhole made this statement on Thursday, while welcoming new members to the party, at the APC presidential campaign in Benin.
As he reeled out names of those who have defected from the PDP to the APC, he said: “I am told that there are a lot of very very senior people from PDP who have decided to join forces with President Buhari to take the broom to sweep away PDP and to continue to ensure that APC continues to preside all over Nigeria.
“It includes my own brother, my friend who comes from my own clime, Henry Duke Genebe. He is the former organising secretary of PDP and we also have former vice chairman PDP and leader of Edo North of PDP. We also have my brother Chief Esheshi Godwin. He is also former council chairman and my very dear friend. We have quite a number of other leaders who have come.
“We have quite a number of other leaders who have come… in fact, once you have joined APC, all your sins are forgiven.”
Bobloco: Not just foes and friends united against, but also Nigerians who are being subjected to extreme hardships, hunger, and starvation inflicted upon them by Tinubu's wicked and draconian policies masquerading as economic reforms.
Wicked and draconian policies to squeeze out revenue from the public to pay for higher luxuries for himself and make us poorer beggars.
anonimi: The eyesore on Bourdillon Road 2nd January 2025
Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.
If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance. That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.
atiku4President: The man Tinubu must be booted out to save Nigeria. His government has no direction. No plans to ameliorate the sufferings his ill-informed policies have brought upon Nigerians. Corruption and inflation are at record numbers. Hope another election comes up this month to show him the way out of the lives of Nigerians
If the politicians are not united behind a strong candidate then we will continue to endure APC cluelessness since 2015.
Acekidc4: Their gang up means nothing to President Tinubu, he will complete his 8 years and nothing will happen.
Very true indeed. He has to complete his ebilokan manhood to choke us all with hunger and starvation, which is calmed down by distributing bread palliative in deadly stampedes, because T-Pain is clueless about creating promised jobs.
marlow1962: Yes na, if you want them to defend your corrupted ways, give the 5kg bag of rice and 1 liter cooking oil and watch them shout Sia baba to your name. Some will even stand on your mandate gidigba, as long as you punish them with frustrating policies. Nigerians are anti-good government.
With ebilokan hunger and starvation choking lives, how long before we stand on Bola onirẹsi's manhood
CodeTemplar: Exactly. Those leaky leaky bum bum who supported Jonathan inspite of saying "stealing is not corruption" have turned a 180° edge morally to start demanding it from APC. The APC leaky leaky bum bum guys today will gladly ask you to hold your governor accountable to avoid their paymasters being held accountable.
Is stealing not different from corruption?
Has corruption worsened or not since APC change 10 years ago, as reflected in higher debts but lower economic growth and higher unemployment plus inflation?
Former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major General Muhammadu Buhari has faulted the federal government’s clampdown on Boko Haram Islamic insurgents. He accused the government of killing and destroying their houses while the Niger Delta militants were given special treatment by the government.
Buhari who first spoke in Hausa before the English version accused politicians from the Niger Delta region of starting the current in security in the country by recruiting and arming youths of the region in their desperate attempt to retain power as governors. The former Nigerian leader said that unlike the special treatment given to the Niger Delta militants by the federal government, the Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished by government.
While accusing President Jonathan of failing from the beginning to address the security situation in the country, Buhari said he has never been in support of the state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state.
“How did Boko Haram start? We know that their leader, Mohammed Yusuf started his militant and the police couldn’t control them and the army was invited. He was arrested by soldiers and handed over to the police.
“The appropriate thing to do, according to the law, was for the police to carry out investigations and charge him to court for prosecution, but they killed him, his in-law was killed, they went and demolished their houses.
“Because of that, his supporters resorted to what they are doing today. You see in the case of the Niger Delta militants, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua sent an aeroplane to bring them, he sat down with them and discussed with them, they were cajoled, and they were given money and granted amnesty. “They were trained in some skills and were given employment, but the ones in the north were being killed and their houses were being demolished. They are different issues, what brought this? It is injustice”.
Edygrin: A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and member of the party’s Board of Trustees, Bode George, has explained why he fell out with Nyesom Wike, whom he supported to spite Atiku Abubakar during the build-up to the 2023 presidential election.
How is he doing restitution for his own role in dividing PDP for ebilokan to have his chance of continuing APC shege in hardship and suffering
This is what he should be talking about now.
Edygrin: Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has charged President Bola Tinubu to end the suffering of Nigerians caused by his anti-people policies.
He is not a failure kánkán to us Yorubalokan BATists who are getting palliative bread instead of jobs.
And we don’t care about being killed in stampedes as long as our tribal Asiwaju is the president.
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
sulaak: You are not assessing the impact of inflation in Nigeria.
If you intend to introduce free education in Lagos, then it has to be a nationwide project or else the Lagos population will increase 10-fold due to internaI migration.
How is inflation going to wipe out the 60 times increase in revenue compared to the 4 times increase in population estimate?
Why did Lagos population not increase 10 fold in the four years of Jakande? Or the western region population during Awolowo’s six years in office?
sulaak: Free quality education in Lagos is impossible because most of Lagos's population is very recent. Lagos's population in 1983 was less than 5 million today, estimated to be 22 million.
What is Lagos state budget, and how much will be required to invest in free education? We have to be realistic about what is possible.
Lagos State budget has increased 60 times since 1999 while the population has increased only 4 times since 1982 by your own estimates.
The only thing that is impossible is to shake off your Stockholm syndrome affliction.
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.
Dollarmind001: Drug lord, Atiku, obi.....make all of una get out.
Nigeria can never get better....the poor keeps wallowing in poverty while the rich keeps getting richer.
Nigeria politicians are all thesame...
Please if they are all the same, then why was life better and we were prosperous with jobs under free market, privatisation focused PDP capitalists than the worsening poverty, inflation, unemployment, insecurity, corruption etc under the pseudo progressive socialists APC who are busy sharing palliative rice since they are clueless about creating jobs?
Why the difference in socioeconomic outcomes?
Abi in what is Nigeria better today than it was in 2015
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
Politics › Re: Tinubu Committed To Strengthening Democracy – Ganduje by anonimi: 2:35pm On Feb 02, 2025
