₦airaland Forum

iLoveYouToo:
🤦‍♂️ Nigeria strikes again, majoring in minor things

CSTRR:
Na statistics we go chop?

StraightGaay:
All thanks to Gbola Tinubu

YorubaForum:
Wike in the mud

DMerciful:
Victory for rule of law

Jonjam269:
The serial party defector and his deluded obirodent miscreants will keep mute as usual.

bennybuhari:
“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

Wizardslayer:
The same people that are blocking Biafra freedom and liberation are same set of people shouting free Palestinians and demanding for freedom. Two edge swords.

You can't be subjugating Biafra freedom at home and demanding for Palestinian freedom at the same time.

BeeBeeOoh:
Says we have no choice, nobody will help us

Declares Wike genuinely serving Nigerians

https://leadership.ng/we-must-build-a-nigeria-for-generations-unborn-tinubu/

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.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

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

unclejb2:
No .... Buhari's performance was incredible. Tinubu inherited a perfect Nigeria but he is messing the country up

We will build on Buhari’s achievements – Tinubu

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has said that if elected president in 2023, his administration will build on the achievements of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) in the last seven years.
Tinubu stated this on Tuesday in Jos at the flag off of APC presidential campaign for the 2023 election.

The APC presidential candidate said that Buhari performed well in the areas of infrastructure and laid solid foundation for development of agriculture and other sectors.

“We were insecure, we turned to retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and he embarked on rehabilitation, recovery and redemption of Nigeria.
“He started by destroying the terrorists’ flags systematically, tactically and frontally and today there are no flags of strange military colours in any of our local governments in Nigeria.

“Nigeria was sinking but Buhari pulled us out and said that Nigeria will not sink in his time and in the time of the APC,” he said.
He also added that Buhari superintended over a most fair and credible primary election that produced him as the flag bearer.
Tinubu, who reaffirmed his commitment to good governance, stated that the 2023 general election “is a fight not to leave the country to looters.

“We will never surrender to them to stop the efforts to clean the rot they left us in.
“We will assemble the best team to reverse the decay. We are determined to ensure that nobody will go to bed without food in their stomach.
“Buhari cares and we care too, instead of letting them distract us, we will follow our right path and ensure that we continue with the good work,” he added.

Tinubu also said that if elected, his administration would continue the oil exploration in all frontiers of the basins and develop commercial oil found in Gombe State and Lake Chad Basin.

https://punchng.com/we-will-build-on-buharis-achievements-tinubu/

Racoon:
As usual APC stupidly blaming APC. Was Tinubu forced to mount the saddle? What He not aware of the challenges on ground? Why giving excuses when you lots have bastardized this nation beyond repairs now?

They are never tired insulting the sensibility of the suffering citizens of this nation. Thunder fire you! Dollar bribe stuffing criminal. If not for the failed country, this nuisance ought to have been in jail or executed by now.

Duru009:
This state is one of the richest states in Nigeria if not the richest but with POOR leadership....

Ogun has one of the worst roads in Nigeria despite the many industries located in the state....

ThAGodFaThEr2:
These are students of St. Kizito's High School In Iwopin, Ogun Waterside LG Area of Ogun state during their examination.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo gave your leaders free and quality education, this is what we get from those unfortunate beings in return!

Montracine:
See dilapidated nature of Sango Ota high school, Ogun state

No chairs for students to learn.
They just sitting on bare floor.

Nigeria which way!!

VeryDarkMan01:
You're still d worst governor

Plenty roads are stil in deplorable states in Ogun

Im not happy with you sir

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.

Kingsland24:
How much is one paint of gari in your area please.

Here in ikorodu is

Yellow gari....4000naira
White gari.....3500naira

DeLaRue:
I think Mr Fubara should focus on doing his job.

Throwing petty shades every other day is unnecessary.

Particularly as things appear to be a little calm now.

Booksy:
I guess she is a yahoo girl who decided to collect back some cool cash from some of the African colonial masters residing in Nigeria.

Rich4god:
Who be the CEO and which bank. Cos I no understand how a whole bank CEO will not follow due diligence.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/bayo-veracruz-fcca-814380240/?originalSubdomain=ke

lowkey0147:
Meeting a clueless drug-baron of a president is the worst thing ever done by a former UK Prime Minister.

It's a very sad shame.

Racoon:
Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.

Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.

His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.

The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993

It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.

Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.

He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.

“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’


https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/?.
 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

franugo:
This Ajuri man is all levels of handsome

fergie001:
Ngelale's statement counters an earlier one issued by the President's Special Adviser on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga

opamoses1:
If it was a market dominated by south eastern people, Peter Obi would have released 2 tweets by now. They would have been shouting victimization. Cry babies of Nigeria.


He is not. He is a presidential candidate, a former VP candidate, Former PDP head of campaign, former governor under APGA e.t.c.

McLizbae:
Looks like Garri and Akara. Hajj na to humble..
Enjoy the suffering...

Goodvibes007:
They should hold their organizers responsible. An average Nigerian civil servant is corrupt.

flokii:
What is wrong with it?.. no be pap and akara.
Come far North and drink hot tea with bread for breakfast from Mai Shayi

Metordman:
Tomatoes Ebola or Tinubu Ebola?

Bitterkola100:
Hahaha.
No be only tears na downpour.
As a governor you refuse to pay their parents common 30k minimum wage but you are crying on stage.
If i fall for any Nigeria politician gimmick make i bend.

Ideje:
That's a leader with the people at heart. If you see a Leader who came to serve you will know

bennybuhari:
“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

MemphitzDgreat1:
Third Mainland Bridge initiated by President Shehu Shagari in 1980 (44 years ago), and completed by Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) in 1990 (34 years ago), is commissioned by Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2024 to mark one year anniversary in office.

#TinubuOneYearofFAILURE.

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

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/

helinues:
Toh

Should government also be blamed for the ridiculous price of goods and services we don't import like pepper, tomatoes, onions?

Why should the attached below items be costing N500 in some Southern region areas.

Before talking about herdsmen activities in the north, are the Southern people so that lazy to produce their own foods?

And before talking about the increase in fuel price, what % of increase in fuel price compared to the ridiculous % increase in prices of foods items we don't import?

bet9ja:
This is a normal thing. But impossible because he only came to acquire more wealth. 15 trillion contract awarded with no bidding procedure or whatsoever. A shameless government

HRMK:
SERAP KNOWS WHERE TO COLLECT THE INFORMATION FROM IF REALLY NEEDED!

ugodson:
Who gave d director of SERAP his job? Your guess is as good as mine

Nigeria: Falana Gets Ekiti NCP Guber Ticket

9 JANUARY 2003
This Day (Lagos)
By Dipo Okunmuyide

Ado-Ekiti — Lagos based lawyer and human right activist, Barrister Femi Falana, has emerged as the governorship candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP) for the 2003 gubernatorial election in Ekiti State.

Falana who[b] recently decamped from the Alliance for Democracy (AD) became the flagbearer of the NCP[/b] after his opponent, Dr. Jide Oguntuji, withdrew from the primaries at the last minute.

https://allafrica.com/stories/200301090389.html

SpatialKing:
His mandate is getting weak