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Mr Buhari’s frequent and prolonged overseas trips made critics deride him as a “remote president.”

Mr Buhari’s presidency, with reckless spending and unproductive policies, plunged the nation’s economy into dire straits.

Six days after leaving New York in the United States, where he attended the 78th UN General Assembly (UNGA), President Bola Tinubu has still not made it back to Nigeria, leaving Nigerians wondering about his whereabouts and stoking rumours that the president does not consider himself as being accountable to the people he was elected to serve.

Mr Tinubu arrived in New York on September 18 and departed the U.S. last Thursday around 8:25 p.m. local time using the JFK airport. But he has, so far, failed to communicate his itinerary to Nigerians, a pattern all too similar to that of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, notorious for extended stay outside the country.

The State House declined comments about Mr Tinubu’s itinerary. But senior administration officials said he was dealing with strategic issues in Paris and would return to the country by the end of this week.

“We understand that the president is tending to important matters and holding strategic meetings in Paris, and he will be returning to the country before the end of this week,” a senior official, familiar with Mr Tinubu’s itinerary, told Peoples Gazette on Wednesday.

The State House deliberately failed to reveal when the president would return after his trip to New York to attend the UN General Assembly. There was no mention of his plan to linger in Paris for over a week after concluding his assignment in New York.

Mr Tinubu’s lack of communication might be perceived as a lack-lustre attitude that mirrors that of Mr Buhari, the ex-president, who did not see the need to explain his whereabouts and brazenly gallivanted around the globe, leaving his media aides befuddled and scrambling for the best way to defend their principal to the public.

Mr Buhari’s frequent and prolonged overseas trips made critics deride him as a “remote president.”

Mr Buhari’s presidency, with reckless spending and unproductive policies, plunged the nation’s economy into dire straits.

Since Tuesday, the naira has been trading at N1000 to one dollar, signposting Mr Tinubu’s flopped experiment to float the national currency.

Despite Mr Tinubu’s repeated assertions that he is different from his predecessor, his actions demonstrate that the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree.

Savedday2:
This Osifo is really a new comer oh! Instead of him to be asking where is my own share of the money looted from subsidy removal, he is there yanhing dust!

Obaofaba:
Illiterate you are, so the president can spend money outside the budget without getting impeached?

GOFRONT:
TSA ofcourse

Obaofaba:
Wait for supplementary budget.

SpecialAdviser:
When a drug lord promise to save your money

Lungdick:
Lol

I dun learn a new thing be that.

Cos I've seen a lot of ladies who claim to be virgins but have slippers breasts i've always thought their boyfriend(s) oversqueezed them.

Festus Osifo, the president of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), says the federal government has questions to answer as regards the gains of subsidy removal.

President Bola Tinubu had announced the removal of petrol subsidy at his inaugural speech on May 29, 2023.

Following the speech, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) raised petrol price from N189 per litre to N568 per litre.

With NNPC spending N4.39 trillion ($9.7 billion) on a petrol subsidy in 2022, Tinubu said removing the subsidy on premium motor spirit (PMS) would reduce expenses and help the government to save more from revenue generated.

Speaking on the matter during an interview on AriseTV on Wednesday, Osifo asked where the money saved since removing the subsidy is.

He said since the government announced N1 trillion has been saved, there is no reason to continue borrowing money, adding that FG should simply deploy part of the funds on Nigerians.

“The President and commander in chief on its own came and said the country has saved N1 trillion. The Federal government went everywhere to announce that if subsidy is removed, it’s going to save substantial money,” Osifo said.

“And so, we don’t expect them to go everywhere and start borrowing money. They told us they are going to save money. So where is the money that you have saved and how have they deployed this money?”

Osifo’s comment comes a day after TUC and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) announced that workers’ unions will embark on an indefinite strike on October 3, 2023.

He said the unions have exhausted their arsenals and have been left with no choice but to proceed on the definite strike next month.

Lungdick:
Chai!

if she's still a virgin, it either here breasts were over squeezed and sucked or it's a diseases.

Lungdick:
na you open thread, na you still de do FTC.

The Iria Ceremony (Egerebite, Bighibite rite of passage into full womanhood for Ibani Kingdom); an annual practice at the Market Square of Okrika in Rivers State dates back to the 16th century and has continued to trigger excitement from both locals and outsiders as people look forward to the last three to four months of every year to have a full view of breasts–baring maidens being initiated into womanhood.

As of late October, the maidens go into the fattening room, feeding and waiting for the D-Day when they would dance in a special way at the Market Square, in November or December. The Iria Festival is seen as a yearly competition, which families take advantage of to showcase chastity as parents present their virgin daughters and get them ready for the fattening room, where they are fed with body-nourishing meals. When they come out to the village square, you will see that their bodies have changed and become more succulent. They look so pretty and some people will actually think they are mermaids. Most of them get suitors before the festival. Some of the young women who have fiancés, get sponsored by such friends.

At the market square, chiefs and heads of families are gathered with the people to watch the young virgins, who only cover their lower body, leaving the breasts bare for all to see. It is an abomination for any of the participants to be pregnant. Inspectors, who are old women, known as 'Gbenerime', are always on the ground to spot any pregnant maiden for an outright ban. Such disqualification becomes a very big shame and a taboo, her family will become an object of mockery.

yarimo:
Illiterate Obidients creating senseless thread all over the place mteeeew

CEOwatazs:
How is that your business

benuejosh:
Him sef no fit. Them be mates?

DrGoodman:
War would have broken out in Nigeria

Yankiss:
Something is not clear. Why is a supposed first class graduate spending through the nose to hide his records? There are several permutations. One: he might not be the person Bola Tinubu who attended the university and obtained a first class, and gender is not same as his. Two: He might be the person but didn't graduate with honours. Three: Read one and two again and choose one. I stand for One!

CEOwatazs:
To someone like Tinubu 100bn is nothing to him.

benuejosh:
Obaseki na low budget Fayose and Wike.

The United Nigeria Group (TUNG) has raised the alarm athat President Bola Tinubu is allegedly currently plotting with lobbyists to cause delays in the judgement relating to the discovery of his records at the Chicago State University currently going on in the United States.

The group, in a press release signed by its National Coordinator Dr Bright Emenena, said that the alert followed the intelligence of a meeting between the President and his cronies in Paris, the French capital.

The statement reads: “Bola Tinubu and a well-known Lebanese merchant based in France met in Paris and recruited a powerful Jewish American lawyer and a known political lobbyist in Washington DC as a consultant to lobby the appeal judge to delay the judgment scheduled to be delivered either this Friday or Monday next week or to their favour.

“This meeting and approval was given last night in Paris at 10 pm Paris time.

“The payments are millions of dollars in cash and with crude oil as bonus.”

It will be recalled that President Tinubu left the United Nations General Assembly session in New York last weekend, in the middle of a scandal arising from the Illinois Magistrate court ordering the Chicago State University to cause a full discovery of his academic records at the university.

It will also be recalled that President Tinubu had caused an emergency appeal to the court order, with his lawyers in the United States, filing their appeal on Monday.

The Chicago court hearing the case is billed to receive the filling of Atiku’s lawyers latest on Wednesday and judgement to be expected in a few days after.

Atiku argued that a “second Chicago State University diploma has since emerged (dated June 27, 1979) that bears the name ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu’ but also presents with a different font, punctuation, seal, and signatures than the June 22, 1979 diploma, among other alleged discrepancies.” Atiku told the US that he wanted to authenticate these documents to determine whether a “Chicago State University diploma in the name of Bola Ahmed Tinubu dated June 22, 1979, that was submitted to the INEC before the Nigerian presidential election in February 2023 is genuine or was forged.”

kokoA:
I'm beginning to suspect Tinubu is just having fun with this case, trying to keep Atiku team busy till 2027 then he will personally release these information to the public and use it to floor Atiku again.

EyeCumInPiece:
Tinubu has something incriminating to hide in his CSU Records. Only Agbadorian corn-brains will argue with this obvious fact.

Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New People’s Democratic Party (nPDP) and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has waded into the ongoing dramatic tussle over the controversial academic records of Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu at the Chicago State University (CSU) which records appear to be shrouded in mystery, embroiling the President in a louche legal hassle with his major contender and chief-rival in the 2023 presidential poll, former Vice President – Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Recall that a Magistrate Court in the United States last week, ordered Chicago State University to release the academic records of Bola Ahmed Tinubu within 48 hours with disposition to be take place with immediate effect after the release. However in a swift appeal lodged a few days after the order, Tinubu pleaded with the Judge to save him from suffering what he termed “severe and irreparable damage” by placing an emergency hold on the court order instructing the release of his academic records which is now enmeshed in the murky waters of controversy.

In a statement made available to the media, Chief Eze says Tinubu had relied on the protective cloak of privacy rights which extends to academic records, to frustrate any investigation into his alleged claim of having graduated from CSU from whence a certificate he submitted on oath to INEC emanated. But the court in its wisdom ruled that the interest of Atiku Abubakar in obtaining Tinubu’s records from CSU outweighs his privacy rights because by submitting his diploma to INEC, he has put his certificate to issue. That means interested parties can question its authenticity and seek verification from the issuing authority; a step leveraged by Atiku.

A member of the ruling APC notwithstanding, Chief Eze said the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar is fighting a just cause and by the expose of his doggedness, the lapses in our electoral laws and institutions pertaining to verification of documents put forward by seekers of public offices have been brought to fore and should be addressed by the framers of laws, adding that some public office holders are consummate forgers of academic records; parading certificates they do not hold.

He said if Tinubu is clean with the CSU academic records he paraded over the years and which he presented on oath to INEC, what then is he trying to hide from Nigerians? If the certificate from CSU is authentic, why strive so hard and spend so much to frustrate efforts to reveal it to an interested party- Atiku Abubakar who has a pending appeal challenging his declaration by the electoral umpire as winner of 2023 presidential poll?

Expressing confidence that the courts in the US are conscious of justice which is the fulcrum of their conscience and judgements, Eze condemned efforts by Tinubu and his team to deliberately deploy the usual delay tactics common in the Nigerian Jurisprudence in depriving justice from deserving parties, noting that regardless of their schemes, justice will be served and Nigerians will win in the long run.

“Had the court not given judgement against him, one would have loved to see a situation where our dear President waives every privacy rights that constitute a cloak on the unveiling of his academic records at the Chicago State University, to boost public trust. That’s how to lead by example” Eze said.

Deploying every means to conceal his records does not speak well of him, taints his administration with fraud and further damages the reputation of our democracy and governance system and every responsible Nigerian should feel concerned about this mess. “It’s now about our country reputation”.

Pandev:
“The election has come and gone, and a president has emerged. We are all humans, and that is why I am pleading with Atiku to discontinue the case in America for the sake of the country and in consideration of the friendship between him and President Tinubu,” Kalu said

Maize247:
There is nothing in Atiku as Tinubu lawyer is only messing with their psyche

Kelvin30286063:
Who read that epistle they wrote there? Who even posted it!

darling4242:
Would be very difficult to have first class in Nigeria let alone an outside country 😂

And he wasn't awarded?