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olatade:
They should also convert the presidential air fleet to national carriers.

Was that not the promise of Buhari and APC when Tinubu packaged him as the saviour and messiah to clean up the mess of PDP’s 16 years.

Are we better today than we were in 2015?

If you fool me once, shame on you.
If you fool me twice, shame on me.
If you fool me repeatedly then shame on who

forgiveness:
Very good idea. Let it be done.

Very foolish idea that must not be done.

How much did the PDP government spend to make Virgin Air Nigeria our national carrier, compared with APC’s budget for the failed airline project

blacksta:
Sep 18, 2009
LAGOS – Virgin Nigeria Airways has changed its name to Nigerian Eagle Airlines, and the new identity takes immediate effect.

The airline also said it had no problems with the United Bank of Africa (UBA) Plc over its indebtedness to the bank, as it was managing and servicing the debt.

Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Captain Dapo Olumide, who unveiled the airline’s new identity, told newsmen at a briefing yesterday that the change of name was sequel to the withdrawal of Virgin Atlantic Airways as core investor and technical of Virgin Nigeria Airways (VNA).

Chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, had last year announced the withdrawal of his 49 per cent equity in Virgin Nigeria, which also attracted 51 per cent ownership by Nigerian institutional investors.

Olumide said the new name was chosen to project the country’s image and pride, adding that the desire of the board and management was to build it into a brand.

While one of the airline’s seven aircraft is expected to arrive the country today in its new colours and name, Capt. Olumide said all the planes in the airline’s fleet as well as offices across the country and West Africa would have been completely re-branded in two months.

Olumide, who asserted that Virgin Atlantic Airways was free to sell its stakes in the airline, said Nigerian Eagle Airlines has concluded plans to source funds from the capital market for its operations.

“We are going to have our private placement in the next six weeks. The Board has met and taken a position on that, and we are also expecting investors overseas to invest in the new airline.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/18/virgin-nigeria-airways-now-nigerian-eagle-airlines/comment-page-3/#comments

barinedan:
The so called FG should be ashamed of itself, can't they start their own carriers by themselves?

Why should the government run any business, especially an airline as the national carrier?

How many of our japa countries have governments running their national carriers?

Do you know how we were sinking subsidies into NITEL’s inefficient and ineffective system until Atiku’s PDP deregulation of the sector

Homeboiy:
Make una let this matter die

Chidimma is now in Nigeria

Why the obsession

Are you a lawless person who wants a criminal identity theft matter to die

Jayhome24:
So Oando is the only Atiku headache ba? Infact I'm suspecting Atiku now with this Oando stuff it's like Atiku have interest in Agip or one of his thief Associate but they couldn't get the deal done and now resort to firing missiles like a dmb.

Tinubu's state capture is ruining our country beyond imagination.
A wise citizen will be thankful to Atiku for flagging this, which is what Tinubu has been doing in Lagos for over 25 years.

Tinubu ejects LGA from headquarters, prepares to construct serviced luxury flats on property

https://dailypost.ng/2012/11/15/tinubu-ejects-lga-headquarters-takes-prime-property-construct-serviced-luxury-flats/#google_vignette

ENGINEERG:
#NigeriansDecide
"Where we are sitting right now, this TVC premises, used to be a Lagos State Polytechnic property.
~Abdul-Azeez Adediran a.k.a Jandor, Lagos State PDP's governorship candidate

▪︎He made this known during an interview on Your View, a TVC talk show.
▪︎Bola Tinubu owns TVC.

“Where we are sitting right now, this TVC premises used to be a Lagos State Polytechnic property. Even if you tidy up everything and it is legal to sell it to yourself, is it morally right?“
@ TVC
https://fb.watch/i4Um7t1T6c/

Northernblood8:
I said it months ago that Dangote will never refine a drop of fuel until fuel hits 1000. Idiots doubted me. Dangote's selfishness is the reason why fuel is so costly

When did Dangote become the president in Aso Rock?

Is Dangote also responsible for the increased price of agbado, cassava, rice, beans, passports, university fees? Or the exchange rate of Naira to the dollar?

Are you alright or do you need a quick checkup in Yaba left

Kosiso12:
Source : https://politicsnigeria.com/fg-vows-action-as-independent-marketers-defy-government-sell-fuel-at-n1000-litre/

Is this the same Tinubu FG that hiked passport fees and university fees before giving loans to a tiny minority?

Are we really 200 million mumus in this geographical area called Nigeria




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMWUS1W_ITc?si=vDgX7nlYFggpaTYm

Kusu12:
Your wailing and gnashing of teeth just started. Hope you stayed at home yesterday.

Stayed at home in Lagos?
Or stayed at home in Iragbiji, Osun state

Your bamubamu layo selfishness from Tinubu's crumbs is why you are not wailing and gnashing your teeth yet for the hunger and starvation ravaging the country since clueless Akanbi used Yorubalokan to get his ebilokan turn to continue Buhari's APC shege that was fraudulently sold as change in 2015.

nairalandkachy1:
'Ebi N Pa Wa!' — Hawkers Protest Economic Hardship in Lagos

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/H5afPAqrVrLoJHKF/?mibextid=oFDknk

FuglyGurl:
Yoruba market women in Ogun State have lambasted President Bola Tinubu’s administration for promulgating economic policies that negatively affect the prices of goods and cause untold hardship for Nigerians.

A viral video shared by an X user, Somto Okonkwo, on Monday and seen by Peoples Gazette saw the market women speaking to a Sugarlink Concepts reporter in their local dialect, expressing their disgust as they lamented the soaring prices of goods in the country.

The traders who said Mr Tinubu disappointed Nigerians, particularly the Yorubas, threatened to beat the president.

“He’s not behaving like a Yoruba man; he has disappointed us in Yoruba land,” another elderly woman stated.

A fish seller said, “As things are now, we’re tired. A carton of sardine is N100,000.”

Another trader appealed to the president to have mercy on Nigerians, saying, “We’re tired of Nigeria; everything is costly, everything is getting costly every day.”

An elderly woman who also registered her displeasure with the current administration lamented that several Nigerians starved to death over Mr Tinubu’s economic policies.

“Countless people are being killed because of food, we don’t see food to eat, the elderly that are dying are too much,” she lamented.

Asked what they would tell the president if they had the opportunity to see him, one of the traders threatened, “We will beat him up, the president.”

The trader added, “What he promised us is not what’s happening now. This is too much.”

A plantain seller, who also urged Mr Tinubu to find a solution to the hardship, lamented that traders made losses due to the high cost of petrol.

“Things are too costly; we’re tired,” another fish seller grumbled. “A carton of Titus is N100,000; it used to cost N17,000. Kote is going to N60,000. Shawa, which we used to sell for N70, now goes for N700. Garri, that used to be N50, is now N700.”

https://gazettengr.com/yoruba-market-women-bemoan-tinubus-government-promise-to-beat-president-up-one-on-one/

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Report: How Peter Obi as Anambra governor failed to declare assets kept in tax havens

Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, kept secret assets in tax havens, a series of leaked documents has shown.

The leaked files which were retrieved from 14 offshore services firms around the world were revealed in a Pandora Papers project led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and which Premium Times is a part of.

In his response, the former governor told Premium Times: “I don’t declare what is owned with others. If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”

In 2010, more than four years after Obi became governor, he reportedly set up his first discreet company in the British Virgin Island, and named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter.

To set up what has now become a convoluted business structure, Obi, Premium Times reported first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax havens noted for providing conduits for wealthy and privileged corrupt political elites to hide stolen cash.

According to the newspaper, Obi also paid Acces International to provide nominee directors for the company — these directors are residents of tax havens paid to sit on boards of companies to hide the identities of real owners of offshore firms.

Acces International officials, who reportedly took briefs from Obi and or his representatives, headed to the British Virgin Island where they contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for the former governor.

https://www.thecable.ng/report-how-peter-obi-as-anambra-governor-failed-to-declare-assets-kept-in-tax-havens/amp/

AntiChristian:
What is good is that many who had no access to such healthcare had access to it and it is closer to them. Call it whatever, Nigeria won't get where you want in one day!

The topic is not about Awolowo state nor about the employment in it. And they would of course employ those they can pay! There's no need to employ people who will end up going on strikes for more pay year in year out. The facilities should first be on ground and then the requisite funds to fund the personnel in improved optimal working conditions!

How would i calculate this? That place is close to Ake Palace and not far from Abeokuta South LG Secretariat.

I'm not a supporter of democracy. Democracy is the government of the people! So when the majority of the people are wise then the wise leads them. When the majority of the people are corrupt then corruption leads them! As for reducing salary, if you are given the hoe to make ridges would to not make it towards yourself?

Our leaders are simply a reflection of us!

Is this your own contribution towards making the majority of our people to be wise

Smartcitizen:
This man must be an Akwa Ibom man according to most hypocritic Yoruba people here.

Every crime in Yoruba land is committed by foreigners.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

According to Fulani asslicker Tinubu, he must be Igbo since they are the only tribe into kidnapping.

Highways:
Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'


When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.


Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country

The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW

— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019

Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.


Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....

However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.

Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/388382-afenifere-police-speak-on-arrest-of-alleged-killers-of-fasorantis-daughter.html

tojahh:
Source: https://saharareporters.com/2024/08/26/i-collected-ransom-dollars-used-it-my-childrens-school-fees-feeding-lagos-based-alleged

Does it mean that if Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu used the masses' revenues to make education free in schools with adequate teachers, the kidnappers would not have been motivated to commit the crime

APC progreThieves have ruined our country.

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.

                                                                             http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

LagosPrince:
Dem wan kuku finish arik and aero completely be that.

Tinubu's cluelessness is legendary and makes Buhari seem like a smart guy in comparison.

Have we forgotten how Virgin ran our national carrier without government putting in a kobo, unlike the billions "spent" by Buhari's Sirika for a nonexistent national airline

blacksta:
Sep 18, 2009
LAGOS – Virgin Nigeria Airways has changed its name to Nigerian Eagle Airlines, and the new identity takes immediate effect.

The airline also said it had no problems with the United Bank of Africa (UBA) Plc over its indebtedness to the bank, as it was managing and servicing the debt.

Chief Executive Officer of the airline, Captain Dapo Olumide, who unveiled the airline’s new identity, told newsmen at a briefing yesterday that the change of name was sequel to the withdrawal of Virgin Atlantic Airways as core investor and technical of Virgin Nigeria Airways (VNA).

Chairman of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, had last year announced the withdrawal of his 49 per cent equity in Virgin Nigeria, which also attracted 51 per cent ownership by Nigerian institutional investors.

Olumide said the new name was chosen to project the country’s image and pride, adding that the desire of the board and management was to build it into a brand.

While one of the airline’s seven aircraft is expected to arrive the country today in its new colours and name, Capt. Olumide said all the planes in the airline’s fleet as well as offices across the country and West Africa would have been completely re-branded in two months.

Olumide, who asserted that Virgin Atlantic Airways was free to sell its stakes in the airline, said Nigerian Eagle Airlines has concluded plans to source funds from the capital market for its operations.

“We are going to have our private placement in the next six weeks. The Board has met and taken a position on that, and we are also expecting investors overseas to invest in the new airline.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/18/virgin-nigeria-airways-now-nigerian-eagle-airlines/comment-page-3/#comments

Otunski:
Keyamo wan to cash out too. Hadi Sirika scammed a whole country and nothing happened, it's time for Keyamo to try his luck too.

Corruption is easier when scamdemic socialists and pseudo progressives ruin the country with ownership of businesses instead of letting the private sector grow the economy.
How much were we sinking as subsidies into NITEL's ineffective and inefficient bottomless pit before Atiku's capitalist PDP deregulated the sector for competitive growth

misransome:
Then expect arik to fail again. Nigerian government cannot run big business, they will run it down 20 times with corruption.

Exactly why Atiku's PDP privatisation and deregulation is far better than APC's scamdemic socialist progressive big government ownership of businesses.

BTW, is Air Peace not our national carrier?
How many national carriers do they have in the US and in the UK

AntiChristian:


Good one from àwọn ọmọ aké mojo!

Ọmọ korowa...



Ẹgba aké ibe lolaju ti ṣẹ!

wellmax:
Good one.

RevenuesBoost:
So cool

What is good and cool about this Stockholm syndrome gesture?
Why is Awolowo's state not employing nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians, doctors, administrators etc to provide free basic healthcare to everyone?
What % of the representative's total package is this gabjekinsimi outreach?

Why are you not asking for the representative to reduce his salary, allowances and benefits so more doctors and other healthcare workers can earn relatively well enough to stay back in our country

Makavelli001:
🙊 During the Soviet dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. He was a brutal dictator with a mind of his own.

On one fateful day, Stalin came to a Politburo meeting with a live chicken.

Standing in front of an 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 naked. After which, he threw the chicken on the ground.

🚩The naked 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 & helpless creature.

🚩The poor chicken in pain started eating and Stalin started walking toward 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, worshipping you".
🚩"They will think you are a hero forever. They will forget that you're responsible for their sorrowful situation in the first place."

😇 Breathtaking, 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.

🚩Your guess is as good as mine. And the likes of many others, we all know about.
📍Nigerians kill those they should defend and defend those they should kill! 🙉

HydraFeeds:
Because MLK didn’t contest doesn’t make him a follower,he’s a leader on his own right .

You can lead in any field,if you think you can do better than the standard we are maintaining,come out with your own standard .

Unlike you ,I don’t believe in japa . I only believe people like you are lazy that only blame leaders for their failures instead of going out there to work and if there’s no work ,create one .

If you are half as smart as you make out to be, won't you realise that my comments are my own standard of governance?
Why are you so empty yet making so much noise like a barrel

samfrancis1:
He was actually one of those who sold us, how come he's just saying this now after many years.. I guess Baba is realizing something.

Obasanjo is not realising anything beyond his desire to be relevant in MISLEADING us into greater poverty with his endorsement of Buhari and Obi that made Tinubu's presidency possible.

Baba Iyabo is exactly what his daughter described him as:

Source: Vanguard Newspaper

It brings me no joy to have to write this but since you started this trend of open letters I thought I would follow suit since you don’t listen to anyone anyway. The only way to reach you may be to make the public aware of some things. As a child well brought up by my long-suffering mother in Yoruba tradition, I have been reluctant to tell the truth about you but as it seems you still continue to delude yourself about the kind of person you are and I think for posterity’s sake it is time to set the records straight.

I will return to the issue of my long-suffering mother later in this letter.

Like most Nigerians, I believe there are very enormous issues currently plaguing the country but I was surely surprised that you will be the one to publish such a treatise. I remember clearly as if it was yesterday the day I came over to Abuja from Abeokuta when I was Commissioner of Health in Ogun State, specifically to ask you not to continue to pursue the third term issue.

I had tried to bring it up when your sycophantic aides were present and they brushed my comments aside and as usual you listened to their self-serving counsel. For you to accuse someone else of what you so obviously practiced yourself tells of your narcissistic megalomaniac personality. Everyone around for even a few minutes knows that the only thing you respond to is praise and worship of you. People have learnt how to manipulate you by giving you what you crave. The only ones that can’t and will not stroke your ego are family members who you universally treat like shit (sic) apart from the few who have learned to manipulate you like others.

Before I continue, Nigerians are people who see conspiracy and self-service in everything because I think they believe everyone is like them. This letter is not in support of President Jonathan or APC or any other group or person, but an outpouring from my soul to God. I don’t blame you for[b] the many atrocities you have been able to get away with, Nigerians were your enablers every step of the way. People ultimately get leaders that reflect them.[/b]

Getting back to the story, I made sure your aides were not around and brought up the issue, trying to deliver the presentation of the issue as I had practiced it in my head. I started with the fact that we copied the US constitution which has term limits of two terms for a President. As is your usual manner, you didn’t allow me to finish my thought process and listen to my point of view. Once I broached the subject you sat up and said that the US had no term limits in the past but that it had been introduced in the 1940s after the death of President Roosevelt, which is true.
I wanted to say to you: when you copy something you also copy the modifications based on the learning from the original; only a fool starts from scratch and does not base his decisions on the learning of others. In science, we use the modifications found by others long ago to the most recent, as the basis of new findings; not going back to discover and learn what others have learnt. Human knowledge and development and civilization will not have progressed if each new generation and society did not build on the knowledge of others before them.

The American constitution itself is based on several theories and philosophies of governance available in the 18th century. Democracy itself is a governance method started by the ancient Greeks. America’s founding fathers used it with modifications based on what hadn’t worked well for the ancient Greeks and on new theories since then.

As usual in our conversations, I kept quiet because I know you well. You weren’t going to change your mind based on my intervention as you had already made up your mind on the persuasion of the minions working for you who were ripping the country blind. When I spoke to you, your outward attitude to the people of the country was that you were not interested in the third term and that it was others pushing it. Your statement to me that day proved to me that you were the brain behind the third term debacle. It is therefore outrageous that you accuse the current President of a similar two-facedness that you yourself used against the people of the country.

I was on a plane trip between Abuja and Lagos around the time of the third term issue and I sat next to one of your sycophants on the plane. He told me: “Only Obasanjo can rule Nigeria”. I replied: “God has not created a country where only one person can rule. If only one person can rule Nigeria then the whole Nigeria project is not a viable one, as it will be a non-sustainable project”

I don’t know how you came about Yar’Adua as the candidate for your party as it was not my priority or job. Unlike you, I focus on the issues I have been given responsibility over and not on the jobs of others. It was the day of the PDP Presidential Campaign in Abeokuta during the state-by-state tour of 2007 that Yar’Adua got sick and had to be flown abroad. The MKO Abiola Stadium was already filled with people by 9am when I drove by (and) we had told people based on the campaign schedule that the rally would start at noon.

At 11 am I headed for the stadium on foot; it was a short walk as there were so many cars already parked in and out. As I walked on with two other people, we saw crowds of people leaving the stadium. I recognized some of them as politicians and I asked them why people were leaving. They said the Presidential candidate had died. I was alarmed and shocked. I walked back home and received a call from a friend in Lagos who said the same and added that he had died in the plane carrying him abroad for treatment and that the plane was on its way to Katsina to bury him.

I called you, and told you the information and that the stadium was already half-empty. You told me to go to the stadium and tell the people on the podium to announce that the Presidential candidate had taken ill that morning but the rest of the team, including you and the Vice-Presidential candidate would arrive shortly. I did as I was told, but even the people on the podium at first didn’t make the announcement because they thought it was true that Yar’Adua had died. I had to take the microphone and make the announcement myself. It did little good. People kept trooping out of the stadium. Your team didn’t arrive until 4pm and by this time we had just a sprinkling of people left.

That evening after the disaster of a rally, you said you had insisted that the Presidential candidate fly to Germany for a check-up although you said he only had a cold. I asked why would anyone fly to Germany to treat a cold? And you said “I would rather die than have the man die at this time.” I thought of this profound statement as things later unfolded against me. Then I thought it a stupid statement but as usual I kept quiet, little did I know how your machinations for a person would be used against me. When Yar’Adua eventually died, you stayed alive, I would have expected you to jump into his grave.

I left Nigeria in 1989 right after youth service to study in the US and I visited in 1994 for a week and didn’t visit again until your inauguration in 1999. In between, you had been arrested by Abacha and jailed. We, your children, had no one who stood with us. Stella famously went around collecting money on your behalf but we had no one. We survived. I was the only one of the children working then as a post-doctoral fellow when I got the call from a friend informing me of your arrest.

A week before your arrest, you had called me from Denmark and I had told you that you should be careful that the government was very offended by some of your statements and actions and may be planning to arrest or kill you as was occurring to many at the time. The source of my information was my mother who, agitated, had called me, saying I should warn you as this was the rumour in the country. As usual you brushed aside my comments, shouting on the phone that they cannot try anything and you will do and say as you please. The consequence of your bravado is history.

We, your family, have borne the brunt of your direct cruelty and also suffered the consequences of your stupidity but got none of the benefits of your successes. Of course, anyone around you knows how little respect you have for your children.

You think our existence on earth is about you. By the way, how many are we? 19, 20, 21? Do you even know? In the last five years, how many of these children have you spoken to? How many grandchildren do you have and when did you last see each of them? As President you would listen to advice of people that never finished high school who would say anything to keep having access to you so as to make money over your children who loved you and genuinely wished you well.

At your first inauguration in 1999, I and my brothers and sisters told you we were coming from the US. As is usual with you, you made no arrangements for our trip, instead our mom organized to meet each of us and provided accommodation. At the actual swearing-in at Eagle Square, the others decided to watch it on TV. Instead I went to the square and I was pushed and tossed by the crowd.

I managed to get in front of the crowd where I waved and shouted at you as you and General Abdulsalam Abubakar walked past to go back to the VIP seating area. I saw you mouth ‘my daughter’ to General Abdullahi who was the one who pulled me out of the crowd and gave me a seat. As I looked around I saw Stella and Stella’s family prominently seated but none of your children. I am sure General Abdullahi would remember this incident and I am eternally grateful to him.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/iyabo-obasanjo-writes-father-says-dear-daddy-dont-nigeria/

HydraFeeds:
You’re the slave waiting for your masters (politicians) to deliver you .

Successful people or countries don’t wait for others ,politicians countries to do something for them .

They look for what to do for others and their countries .

Leaders have higher responsibility but the best (in whatever form ) always become the leader . If you think you can do better than the leader chose. Out of the pack ,come out and contest .

Did MLK come out to contest before getting American leaders-president and lawmakers-to pass the Civil Rights Act that makes it possible for mentally enslaved blacks like you to japa there in peace?

Politicians have a job and earn big pays and priviledges for it. What do you have against them doing their jobs

forerunner022:
In your dementia like Femi Gbajabiamila the corrupt rogue dictator like you, who is aiding the present corrupt rogue dictator administration as an Chief of staff to loot and suppress any dissenting voice, you think you can bring up a third agenda which did not see the light of the day and which I didn't support. I'm talking about present OBJ especially in his speech in Kenya Festac event , you are bringing up one past rubbish matter. Is OBJ roguish dictatorship not better than Buhari and present Tinubu where poverty is now a stark reality? Abeg shift from my mention this morning with your dementia

Your dementia is reinforced by your wish to perish from lack of knowledge and history.
Enjoy your blissful ignorance.

sage:
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:the-vague-future-of-nigeria&catid=28:friday-column&Itemid=56


Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts: "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"


Guys lets discuss the thoughts of Lord Lugard. he had  a supremacist view obviously. But is he right in the way he describes Nigerians and Africans in general? How many of the issues that he raises are valid?

Letz get some responses

AntiChristian:
Àwọn ọmọ ina yìí ṣa!

Why do you guys hate progress but hail one tenth of the same progress in your catchment area ?

What if Lagos is our catchment area and we see how much of a useless rogue Tinubu is compared to Jakande of just four years without choking us with IGR

Do you not scold your child for misbehaving?

Realdeals:
1. The first governor to present a billion Naira state budget in Nigeria.

2. He phased out the shift system in Lagos schools in three months. He built functional classrooms to absorb those who only attend schools for three hours a day.

3. He opened up what is now known as the Lekki Corridor.

4. He built the biggest Housing estate by a state government at Abesan, along with five other estates.

5. He built LASU, LACOED, LASPOTECH and Technical schools to absorb the products of the free education policy.

6 He built General Hospitals and Health centers in all the five divisions of Lagos. He also upgraded General Hospital Ikeja to the Medical arm of LASU.

7. He created the Agric hub at Oko Oba. He also created similar hubs in Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry.

8. His government’s strict adherence to the party manifesto of Free Education, Free Health care, Rural integration and Housing for all, along with other UPN governors, created the largest pool of human resources in Nigeria.

9. He moved the Lagos State Government Secretariat from PWD to Alausa, which he built from scratch. He also lived in his personal house and drove his personal car throughout his tenure.

Gani Kayode Balogun Jr

https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/showtime-people/2019/07/24/jakande-90-9-achievements-of-alhaji-lateef-jakande-as-lagos-governor/

Alliswell248:
So, in your little mind, all the other people the medical colleges are serving are not human being.

Tinubu is just one out of the over 200 million Nigerians.

Is that why Tinubu is flying a new jet worth billion and riding an Escalade and yacht worth billions also from the citizens sweat just like the remaining 200 million?

Why is sense far from you like this

Richtaiwo:
None of your business though.

How is it none of his business as a Nigerian

Alaska90:
Wetin concern you ....Lagos na your state?

Is Lagos not part of the 36 states sharing the national cake baked in the environmentally damaged Niger Delta

Can you guys try to use the thing inside your head called grey matter?

madridguy:
Clean mess by selling every national assets?

Why are you such a chronic and unrepentant liar?
Where is your list of EVERY national asset sold by Obasanjo

HydraFeeds:
So leaders are not gotten from the people ?

A few exceptional emigrants doesn’t justify the collective local reality. Moreover ,there are exceptional people that stay in Nigeria that are doing great and also several emigrants that are doing bad .

If you have alternative data to west Africa IQ ,bring it out .

It’s fools like you that worship foreigners. I’m all for the improvement of my country Nigeria .


You want to say Atiku is smart because he’s a VP or Obi that failed his WAEC and had poor performance studying “just” philosophy or Tinubu that’s embellished with different scandals ? Are they all not from the citizens ?

Don't leaders have a GREATER responsibility than the citizens from whom they receive so much pay & privileges?
What do you gain from making yourself an unquestioning & loyal slave to the leaders

forerunner022:
Obasanjo will always have my respect anytime, any day.

Are you also a corrupt rogue dictator like him?
Or what will make a corrupt rogue have your respect

hisexcellency34:
LAGOS – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has revealed that he was offered the sum of N100 million during the 5th national assembly in order to support a Third Term agenda for the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.


He stated this in his book ‘MR SPEAKER: The legislative life, service, and resilience of Femi Gbajabiamila’ written by Charles Omole and Musa Krishi and forwarded by Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Commonwealth Secretary-General.


In a copy sighted by DAILY INDEPENDENT, Gbajabiamila said while other lawmakers were offered N50m to support an amendment to the constitution that will accommodate the Third term agenda, he was offered N100m which he rejected.

Asked about his best moments as a lawmaker, Gbajabiamila was unequivocal in his choice. He was unapologetic about the role he played in killing the Third Term Agenda. “My best moment as a lawmaker? The death of Third Term”, he said repeatedly to drive home his point.

He continued “The day it was pronounced dead, because like I told you, we had sleepless nights. We were meeting; we got a place in Asokoro, hidden somewhere. We’d start our meetings sometimes at 11 at night and leave there at 4 am in the morning. Can’t remember how many of us. It was a risk to life. It was a risk to life".

“So, the day it was pronounced dead, was a happy day; it was a relief to me. I was a free man. Look, I was offered inducement, at that time, by one of the major proponents of Third Term, I think at this point, I wouldn’t mention his name, but a major player in this country.

“Whilst they were offering members N50 million, I was offered double. An N100m at that time, and you know what N100m was, which, of course, I turned down. I say that just for you to understand the pressure: financial, mental, and physical pressure. We had no other job in the House except Third Term, the constitutional amendment”.

“So, for me, unfortunately as noble as that work was, the best time was the day it died, not the Third Term itself, but the day it was killed on the floor” Gbajabiamila recollected with some relief.

https://independent.ng/i-was-offered-n100m-to-support-third-term-agenda-gbajabiamila/

madridguy:
Once they leave office, they suddenly turned to a motivational speaker. This is the same Obasanjo that cornered the FG farms during the operation feed the nation.

Under same man, 16 billion dollars budgeted for power suddenly grow wings and fly away.

Are you a BuhariDeen changed to BATist who spreads rumours, propaganda and lies?
Where is the successful prosecution of Obasanjo for the 16 billion dollars?
Was Buhari not packaged by Tinubu as the corruption fighter despite his Abacha links

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.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

STEWpid:

C h a i..


It is not a news, Baba Agba,,

Only those with condensed brain will say it is an act of GOD because they've been badly brainwashed to think less-a-human!

Does Obasanjo also have a condensed brain for saying that economy does not matter after tearing his capitalist PDP card and being offered APC navigator post by Tinubu on his way to making Buhari president

jeff1993:
Baba please tell them ooooo .... esp those Useless Nurthern polithiefcians that like to use religion to deceive their fellow Fuulish gullible idiaaats.

Baba Iyabo should tell himself first and stop deceiving gullible Nigerians like you with his fake holy holy stories.
Did he want poverty for us when he endorsed Buhjari despite his cluelessness in economic management, bragging about his personal poverty of sterile 150 cows, no property, no business and borrowing to buy his 2015 APC nomination form?

citizenisb:
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari may not do well in economy and foreign affairs, except in military matters.

“Buhari is not a very hot person on the economy and foreign affairs,” Obasanjo said.

The former President stated this on Monday at the third International Conference on African Development Issues — themed, “Driving inclusive and sustainable development in Africa: Models, methods and policies” — organised by Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.

While reacting to a question posed to him by a member of the audience: “Is there any hope for Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?”, Obasanjo replied, “Is there any hope for Nigeria under this administration? I came back from Geneva, Switzerland a few days ago to attend a conference titled, ‘Are elections giving democracy a bad name?’ We had an election, we elected a leader and the good thing about democracy is that the power you have to elect a leader is also the power you have to remove him. I am saying this because I said earlier that if you don’t see any leader that has done well in the 56 years of Nigeria’s independence, then let us forget about Nigeria.

“I will tell you what I know and I will tell you what I don’t know. I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them. He was never a perfect man, he is not a perfect man and no leader can ever be a perfect man because they are human beings. But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to economy. He is not a very hot person when it comes to foreign affairs. But he will do well in matters of military and he will do well in fighting Boko Haram.”


http://www.punchng.com/buhari-not-sound-economy-foreign-affairs-obasanjo/

Stilloracle:
Are these the best girls Nigeria could get for a whole Miss Universe beauty pageant?
Gosh we are now a laughing stock to the world.
Is it that real beautiful girls worth contesting didnt turn up? Or they boycotted cos of the low prize money of N10M which is a mere R112,000 while miss South Africa got a whopping R1M which is approximately N90M

I dont like shaming women but honestly 90% of them are NOT beauty pageant worthy of a country with 200m people that definitely has very beautiful ladies in high proportion

Are our politicians the best people to run the local, state and federal governments in the legislative and executive branches?

If you don’t work the system to bring out the best in a competition, whether for beauty or for politics, then who is to blame apart from yourself? Who else do you want to blame?

Blame God? Or blame the devil? To show that you/we are not responsible for our (in)actions

EreluRoz:
I want that SouthAfrican girl Adetshina to win

A South African to win a competition for Nigerians?

Are you for real or just kidding

asakoko:
Tinubu have Mercy on Masses

Do the masses have mercy on themselves with their tribesmen support for looters who they hail as leaders from the local to the state to the federal government in the legislative and executive branches

EloquentMedia:
UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR ROLE IN SOCIETY, YOU CAN NEVER MAKE ANY MEANINGFUL CONTRIBUTION.

According to the Greeks there are three types of people on earth,

- the idiots,

- the tribesmen, and

- the citizens.

Studies show only 10% of Africans are citizens.

The remaining 90% are either tribesmen or idiots.

1. THE IDIOTS.
When the Greeks used the word "idiot", they did not use it as a curse word.

Idiots are people who just don’t care.

If they write exams, they will cheat.

If they are in government they will steal.

An idiot does not care at all, if he eats bananas he throws the peels anywhere instead of putting them in a trash bin.

According to the Greeks, some societies have more idiots than tribesmen and citizens.

2. THE TRIBESMEN
The next set of people are tribesmen, these are people that look at everything from the point of view of their tribe.

These are people that believe in you only if you are part of their tribe.

It can be terrible to have a tribesman as a leader, he will alienate the rest.

When the Greeks talk about tribes, it’s not just about ethnicity, they also consider religion as a tribe.

A great percentage of Africans are tribesmen, because they view everything from the point of view of their tribes.

They trust only their tribesmen.

3. THE CITIZENS
The last group are citizens.

These are people that like to do things the right way.

They will respect traffic light rules even if no one is watching them.

They drive within speed limits.

They respect the laws, won’t cheat in exams.

In government they won’t steal.

They are compassionate and give to others to promote their wellbeing.

Citizens often promote projects that benefit everyone.

The Greeks called this group the citizens.

Some countries have more citizens than tribesmen and idiots.

Others have so many idiots.

A tribesman can become a citizen through orientation.

And an idiot can become a citizen by training and constant enforcement of the law.

But things fall apart if you elect an idiot or tribesman to lead you if he has not been reformed.

Where do you belong?

Are you an idiot, a tribesman or a citizen?

Reflect about your life.

Reflect about your country and Africa in general before you answer.

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Mccullum:
The same Lagos State that's the best in governance, infrastructure development and financially stable compare to other federating states in Nigeria. Your remark on Lagos is totally contradicting the true picture of Lagos. Tinubu remain the father of modern Lagos.

If the prodigal son was busy comparing himself to his fellow pig workers, would he have had enough sense to go back to his noble heritage?
Only a bastard omoluabi will compare us with other federating states instead of our noble and progressive heritage of Awolowo and Jakande. What are you

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.