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You mean a President has so degenerated to leaving other important state functions to fo fo and commission buses manufactured for sale by a private entity??

There is no new low for this President

You know the brainwashed ones when you read their posts....
How exactly is tinubu repairing buharis damage?

By devaluing the currency of a non productive economy??

By increasing inflation through unnecessary discretionary spendings

By clueless and directionless policies?

By changing the national anthem?

By borrowing foreing loans at worse terms than Buhari

grandstar:
And you think Peter Obi could do better? A man that won't have the support of both houses, and in which Atiku and Tinubu would ensure they make his 4 years miserable, that is if he isn't impeached?

Buhari left a complete mess and Tinubu is working hard to repair the damage, hence the present economic turmoil.

People still have not realised the damage Tinubu has done to Nigeria, by accepting to devalue the currency


Soon, una go learn. When una learn finish, na stone una go take pursue Tinubu from that place.

Delusions
as a southwesterner, even SW is not sure for him again. Most people here have realised je is clueless and heartless....they were erw sold a dummy.
Except they use agbero politics and those who are chopping from his government will be the ones tk vote for him. Voter apathy amd loss of interest will kill the SW regions votes. He has lost the core North already

Shikini:
Keep fooling yourself ...

The only sure zone now for Tinubu is his tribal SW zone.

The man has displayed the most tribalism ever from a Nigerian leader by reserving all juicy appointments for his Yoruba kinsmen.

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Lol...the protest achieved its aim. The clueless one has been called out. It is a preamble. The ground has been tested and it has been seen that he is shaky and fearful.

Emekaonline:
Some eternally bitter people are not happy that Nigeria did not burn during the protest. They are sadly disappointed. I wish for them to die of hatred and bitterness and go straight to Hell fire

...dont even go to pay.....go to quality of life firdt....of what essence is earning tgat low pay in those "decent" jobs in Nigeria only to spend half of it in buying adulterated fuel after queuing for hours then ply road s full of gorges to get home with no public power supply, and then, be your own security guard over night due to insecurity....then, if you mistakenly fall sick, you are a goner....you can't trade out of the city for fear of kidnapping, hunger and desperation surrounda you, polluted air all over..

Of what essence is the decent pay or jobs ams whn you live in misery...you only have 1 life....chose to enjoy the good side of life...you don't know whether you will come back again.

jojothaiv:
What they look at is the pay for such odd jobs compare to what they are being paid over here, the difference is crystal clear.

...one of the most stupid trait of humans is when you view things from your own narrow perspective and then use that to generalise....its worse than idiocy

Sapasenator:
About three years ago. It was a bitter winter and I was dining at a restaurant around 11 pm in the night. It was very cold and if I remember correctly, it was -35 degrees Celsius below freezing point and if you pee outside, it freezes before hitting the ground. cold.

The restaurant was filled with everyone white except myself. I looked behind me and it was crowded with delivery drivers working for the delivery app, Skip the Dishes, waiting to pick up food orders. Nine delivery drivers and all black guys mostly Nigerian looking.

Imagine what it means to have to drive constantly in the bitter cold to deliver food when most people are either sleeping or enjoying themselves in a warm restaurant.

Some of these guys are even delivering with brand new SUVs purchased on credits and after a deeper dive, I came to realize our people here live mostly above their means to impress fellow Nigerians. They buy houses or cars they cannot afford and now have to work three jobs and drive on the side to maintain their fake lifestyles.

This is not a healthy way to live guys, learn to relax and enjoy yourself once in a while, do not live above your means and the fact that you are pre-authorized for that big mortgage, loan, or line of credit does not mean you have to accept.

Learn to live your life without trying to please or impress anyone and occasionally, take time off to have fun and enjoy yourself, take vacations.

Perfect. I am from the same Region as Tinubu and I maintain that this is the worst leader Nigeria has ever had. He is very inept. All those noise about tmstrategy and brilliance na wash.

ElevationD:
One year of Tinubu: The man, the myth and the mediocrity - Abimbola Adelakun

This week last year, two things were enthroned in the Nigerian political space. One was the man, Bola Tinubu, who was sworn in as the president. The other was the myth of the man as a headhunter endowed with a unique instinct for sourcing the right talent and an astute administrator. So much was this idea of Tinubu as administrative capacity believed that his supporters were sure he would—to use the language of former Abia state governor Orji Kalu—forward Nigeria to all forwardness. Well, it is one year now, and we might as well start asking how that myth has fared.

Let me digress here to point out that two kinds of people propagated the myth of Tinubu’s governing capacity. In one category are those you might call the Know-No-Betters. These are those who have never seen—let alone lived in—a properly functioning city and therefore have no frame of comparison when they were told Tinubu would build Nigeria as he built Lagos. They could be beguiled by the travesty of Lagos, a city where property value costs a fortune but cannot even boast of something as basic as potable water because that is the height of their experience. Even when they see the seedy sides of Lagos, their desperation for an idol to worship pushes them to willingly blind themselves to reality by eagerly gorging on glossy photoshopped images of Eko Atlantic. When you can self-soothe with the visuals of utopia, dystopia becomes livable.

Then there are the Dishonest-Know-Betters—the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on peddling lies, distortions, sentiments, and blatantly voiced falsehoods. They have experienced functional societies so they know what we have is subpar but they still tell you it is sufficient. Nigeria’s future does not concern them because they have built a safe house elsewhere where they and their children will forever be untainted by the rottenness of the country.

So, how has the myth of Tinubu as a savvy administrator held up? Well, two separate policies might best illustrate how they have conducted themselves in office so far. On May 29, 2023, Tinubu pronounced the three words that immediately unleashed hardship on Nigerians who had already endured hell under the Muhammadu Buhari administration: subsidy is gone. Now, the issue is not that he removed the subsidy—that was already expected—but he was haphazard about such a significant step.

Here is why: about a month after that pronouncement, he announced that he could announce the decision because he was under the influence of some “spirits.” Please think about that for a moment. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria made a decision that would affect the lives and livelihood of millions of people, not because he had sat down and worked out a policy agenda with an economic team, but because he was pushed by some voices in his head? Wow!

If it was some “spirits” that took possession of him and forced the words out of his mouth, it means there was no thorough planning to see how the fuel subsidy removal would work, how to mitigate the resultant suffering, and how to assess if their programme was working. Even worse, it means he cannot fully take responsibility for the fallouts of such a programme since it originated from some forces. Whatever pain and hardship you will experience due to his policy decision is not for him to bear. After all, he only acted under some supernatural influence when he pronounced the policy into effect. That too is worth ruminating over: the man some people convinced themselves would turn Nigeria into a Dubai does not plan.

Then came this year when the same administration that told us that the fuel subsidy that helped to attenuate the economic reality was a waste also approved a whopping N90bn to subsidise the hajj pilgrimage. Again, this is worth a reflection: the man saw Nigerians groan in pain from his fuel subsidy removal and grovelled for help, but looked away. They insisted on delivering the hard shocks because the subsidies were supposedly a waste of resources. They offered “palliatives” instead. Their efforts in this direction were so poorly thought-out and poorly organised that they reversed the plan. So, while they had no answer for the pain of the generality of Nigerians and resolutely watched people suffer, they had no qualms catering to a tiny segment of the population embarking on something as privileged as a religious pilgrimage.

What is worse than Tinubu paying N90bn on the hajj this year is that he has to pay it next year, and the year after, and continue like that, especially as his second term election approaches. If he fails to sustain it, the Muslim population whose vote he is targeting through the humongous expense will not forgive him. Worse still, they would have forgotten what he paid in 2024. He has to keep up the spending. Given the Nigerian penchant to turn virtually any initiative into an avenue to siphon public funds, do not be any surprised if that N90bn starts ballooning yearly. You assess the situation he got himself and long-suffering Nigerians into, and wonder how a man who was so mythicized could unravel that quickly. When it came to administering pain and shock, Tinubu was possessed with the spirits of “courage” and “freedom” as he gayly put it. When it came to standing up to religious and ethnic sentiments, his pandering revealed those spirits as “cowardice” and “economic bondage.”

But that is not only where the legion spirits of indecisiveness have possessed the man. First, he took forever to assemble a cabinet even though he won the election in March. He had enough time to decide on a team; he just took it for granted. By the time he unfolded his team, there was initially some confusion over who had made the list. When the final list was unfolded, it was anything but inspiring. Even some of his supporters who had boasted that he knows how to look for the best people were disappointed by how many of those nominated were recycled from the garbage cans of the past administration. To think they even expanded the cabinet just to take some clowns on board.

He signed the Student Loan Act into law, but they later withdrew it with the promise to return. Till now, they are still fumbling through the launch. He recalled ambassadors from their posts, but it turned out that he had no plans in place to replace them. He also proposed the Green Tax but had to reverse it when the introduction turned out to be ill-timed. Then there were the Import Tax Adjustment Levy, Expatriate Tax, and the Cybersecurity Levy that were introduced but needed to be reversed. He will probably go down in history as the president with the most reversed policies in the history of governance at the rate he is going. Even the construction Lagos-Calabar highway, announced with fanfare, had not been fully thought through. Then the blatant and needless lies such as the UAE visa ban and the Maersk affair suggest that they lack any integrity. If they cannot be honest with even the simple things, why should you trust them on the big things?

Plot all of these together, and you come up with a solid picture of a man whose administration lacks coordination and takes decisions based on what their hormones (and some spirits, of course) dictate. Tinubu’s myth as an efficient administrator that has always been propped up with media propaganda and self-serving intellectuals has severely unravelled, revealing an unpleasant picture of the man, the myth, and the mediocrity. To think we are going through this after “16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party” and “eight years of Buhari.” Add the past one year, and you see 25 directionless years. God help somebody!

Lol...its the national anthem...oponu president

A weakling

...says the same government that accepted a 15trillion naira quotation for a road without a competitive bidding....lol


...they know their citizens are stupid and gullible...they will keep voting for them while they rob them blind

Mumu....they are winding you and you are hallucinating over this no news. "They will be picked up".

Have they picked up the ones in Nigeria?

Philipponzaghi:
Finally, some action! It's about time we hold those sponsors accountable. The FG is taking necessary steps to protect our sovereignty. Let's keep the pressure on and ensure our country remains safe from foreign meddling. Kudos to the security agencies for stepping up their game!

...LOL...wetin this one type so??

This is how madness starts o!!...abeg go find suction to your ancestral problem, instead of exhibiting lunacy here.

Krankhead:
NAH Thunder go fire Atilu. ARE YOU THE ONE TO ASVISE AWRVICE CHIEF?

Spot on!!

Chinjo2:
This war is not between the north and south.
It is between the evil APC government led by a clueless Tinubu who is suffocating Nigerians with his bad economic policies.

You claimed Buhari destroyed the country. Who brought Buhari?
He knew Buhari was grossly incompetent but he still went ahead to bring him.
Now that he has grabbed, taken and ran away with the people's mandate let him face the consequences of his action.
Shikenan

Softmirror:

A former Senator of the Federal republic that prides himself as an intellectual cant spell the word "loud" correctly

smokinloud:
LAUD means to praise. Go school you go say school Na scam

So, you that went to school, in what context was the word "laud" used below?? Were they "praising" for the military to take over or they were "praising" the Russian flag

if you can not respond positively, you need to go and apologise to your parents for wasting their money, while pretending you went to school.

Daft!!

Atiku will win if he decides to contest.....last election was won in the North...they have now turned their backs on Tinubu

Honestey:
If they are truly saying that, then they are finally burying any chance of Atiku ever becoming a president of this country. Whichever politician who hopes to lead this country must distance himself from this protest

Dey play...

NoFoodToCook:
No wonder the north didn't join 2020 #EndSars protest. I'm not Tinubu fan as I always curse him but the northern agenda is very glaring. Surprise? It's not achievable.

Lol...your President is shaking seriously wherever he is now. I said it much earlier, the Northerners put him there and are now bent on removing him. Finish


If only he did not listen to the terrible economic advices

Ayoefa:
Dumbest fvcking lunatics.
Day dreaming mumus.
Tinubu is our PRESIDENT.
Deal with it.

Lol!!.... take this seriously....its a sign of what 2027 portends

Weak....pass abeg!

anonymous1759:
You don’t even have a head to talk of.
You’re exhibiting signs of dullness. It’s people like you that believed Buhari was jubril I don’t expect anything less.

...a whole former sensor of Migeria could not spell "loud" correctly.....laud?

LegendHero:
Lol, verydarkman don dey explain since.

Atiku the bad loser and his hordes of teens raising Russia flag are about to find out.

Sucker...thats still less than $70 here.
Reason(rajuna)deeper and stop blabbing. That's all.

Guestlander:
Since you have so much responsibilities and you happen to be the only one helping everyone in your family, isn't it reasonable that we can jointly help people we don't know?
How about N100,000?
That will be N200,000 for needy Nigerians if you commit to charity as well.

...Lol!

It's far beyond your cognitive capacity. Pass.

anonymous1759:
Where is jubril from Sudan Dull muntula

Lol....hungry mofo... 50k?? I give multiples of that out every week, too Nigerians i knew at home who send urgent need for help. Yesterday I still sent more than 3 times of that to someone in Nigeria.

Don't need your foolish bet. Think deeper, bro...think deeper....that all I am asking you to so

Guestlander:
You want to put your money on it? N50000 to any account moderated by Nairaland?
If I win I will let Nairaland give the money to truly needy folks on Nairaland.

...something more sinister is brewing.....if you know, you know. Tinubu may be gone sooner than 2027

If you have any iota of brain for thinking, this should tell you that a more sinister plan is coming from the northerners, it is less about the election losers now. It may not be a coup, but they are out to damage the Tinubu presidency in the North so he will be hard sell for reelection.

Guestlander:
The election losers will be disappointed by this obvious reality.
We are not going back to that.

Nonense talk. If a coup takes place, nothing will happen. All of you will be gentle kehin nonii!

thesicilian:
We have a democratically elected government in place. Any emergency lover of the nation who attempts a coup must make sure he succeeds. Otherwise it shall be worse for him and his family than it was for Sodom and Gomorrah.

In your mind, your have written something sensible...lol

trutharena:
These Ojota protesters are just looking for attention. Rejecting N5,000 is foolishness when they could have used that money to better their situation. They should focus on real solutions instead of playing the victim.