₦airaland Forum

aswani:
Do you have any proof of this your percentage of votes President Tinubu got or did you make it up in your head?

Helinues challenged you Obidients to provide the definite election figures on an earlier thread but typically, all he got from Obidients was abuse and insults.

Essien also recalculated the figures, and he was an Obidient, una no gree am rest abuse am well well wen una see say him result no favour Peter Obi.

Peter Obi will get less votes in 2027, that is if he finds a party banner to contest under.

By the way I also think President Tinubu can lose the 2027 elections too but not to either Atiku or Obi.

Oblongata:
Anybody that wishes death on my President, May their lungs pack up. Amen.

helinues:
We need to start being realistic about this hardship of a thing.

Some people have been blaming FG for almost everything and I keep on wondering, where are the Nigerian parents in this situation?

The Oloshos, The yahoo boys, the criminal elements, infact our politicians? Do they have parents at all or they just fell from the sky?

Government are known to be a failure but not our parents, should we say our parents have also been failing like the government?

Have people stopped taking responsibility for their own personal business hence shifting the blame on FG?

Why should some Nigerians be waiting for Nepa to bring light before they can do important things that requires electricity when the said Nepa have never given 1 straight month light to Nigerians before for decades. Why still waiting for Nepa's light to do important things? That's failure my friend

Timmi:
What a laugh - PandoraObi going about his private business

Salewa97:
The opposition should at least try to be creative instead of recycling old ideas

Timmi:
PandoraObi forgot to mention that he was in the man’s house having dinner with him when he was called for the appointment

Nigerians have yet to know respite in the 16-month-old administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. From the inauguration podium where the new President announced that “subsidy is gone”, Nigerians have been thrown into the abyss of astronomical petrol prices that have birthed unprecedented rising inflation, soaring food prices and high unemployment rate. It has since been the season of relentless acute hunger and food insecurity.

Nigerians woke up to the latest sharp and abrupt increase in petrol price from the official N865 per litre early this month to N1,030 per litre. From N175 per litre in May 2023, petrol price has gone through astronomical increases to peak at the current price.

It is unthinkable that despite the EndBadGovernance and FearlessInOctober protests engaged by Nigerians in two months to register their displeasure with the anti-people policies of the government, the administration would mindlessly increase pump price to further tighten the hardship noose on Nigerians. This is an indication that this government is not only insensitive and strategy-deficient, but it is also incompetent to perform its primary duty of delivering welfare and security to the people.

The multidimensional implications of these hostile policies are dire. Nigerians, including schoolchildren, have had to go hungry. There is a high likelihood of the already poor child and maternal mortality rates rising due to malnutrition and hunger. Prices of goods and services have shot up astronomically. More children are out of school due to the high cost of school fees.


According to the National Bureau of Statistics monthly inflation report, the average price of commodities moved progressively and astronomically from 22.41 per cent in May to peak at 28.92 per cent in December 2023, while the headline inflation rate climbed to 32.15 per cent in August 2024 up from the 25.80 per cent recorded in August 2023.

Consequently, staple foods are out of the reach of the poor and the middle class. According to the NBS, the average price of 1kg of brown beans increased by 27 per cent on a year-on-year basis from N545.61 in August 2022 to N692.95 in August 2023 and now N2,444.81 in July 2024, representing 262.98 per cent price increase. The commodity now sells for an average of N3, 500, while a bag costs an average of N210, 000.

The data agency said the average price of 1kg of yam tuber rose by 42.80 percent on a year-on-year basis from N403.65 in August 2022 to N576.39 in August 2023, and jumped to N1,802.84 in July 2024. NBS also reported that the average price of garri increased by 49.16 percent on a year-on-year-basis, from N305.92 in August 2022 to N456.32 in August 2023, and N1,151.79 in July 2024. The current average price of garri is now N1,200. One kg of cooking gas now goes for N1,500. Sadly, the current market prices of commodities have made nonsense of the N70,000 minimum wage as, at an average cost of N210 per bag, the price of beans will pay minimum wage three times over. The NBS also said the country’s unemployment rate increased to 5.3 percent in Q1 of 2024 from 5.0 percent in Q3 of 2023.


This horrible situation confirms the World Food Programme projection that the 18.6 people suffering from acute hunger in Nigeria at the end of 2023 would increase to 26.5 million in the June-August lean season, and its ranking as the 109th out of 125 countries in the 2023 Global Hunger Index. There can be no better indication that Nigeria is headed for a food crisis if urgent measure is not taken.

The government’s reforms have proved unhelpful as its body language is out of tune with its interventions. For instance, printing money without controlling wasteful spending and cutting excesses has pushed up inflation. This has conspired with other financial missteps to make inflation escalate for 13 consecutive months.

The Naira currently exchanges at an average of N1,700, down from N460 in May 2023, while the interest rate upped to 26.75 per cent from 11 per cent in the past two years.

Nigerians cannot be punished for this overt recklessness.

These horrifying statistics, despite early warnings and projections, show that the Nigerian government does not have a workable strategy to tame hunger and hardship.

Going forward, the government should dump white elephant projects and concentrate on mitigating hardship by crafting effective strategies to tame inflation and reflate the economy.

Stringent actions must be taken to stimulate creative activities to engage the teeming youth population by fixing the country’s abysmal power situation. The gains of subsidy removal should be transparently injected into productive ventures while cutting wastages and blocking loopholes in governance to ameliorate the dire situation.


The Federal Government should give its reforms a human face. Nigerians must not all die before the reforms yield the so-called dividends. There must be home-grown solutions to the economic downturn beyond the cut-throat solutions being dictated by international organisations. The government should take urgent steps to avoid another protest by labour and the people.

obataokenwa:
Tinubu sees government as time for compensation. I was disappointed. What's the CBN governor and finance ministry doing there. Imagine Matawalle still has a job

Richtaiwo:
Alex Otti doesn't need reasonable excuse.

All that is needed is to simply tell his people that Tinubu is the reason he keeps paying 18k minimum wage. Gbam, his people will start singing his praises and insulting other Nigerans.

trutharena:
Akpabio is making sense.

nedzuby:
You should be asking those who are accredited to convert

nedzuby:
It is not deliberate but we facing reality.

We have a choice, covert to CNG and spend less or continue buying fuel and keep complaining.

confusedlady:
I assure you that Bianca Ojukwu will sing:"ON YOUR MANDATE WE SHALL STAND." sooner than later and we will all be alive to witness it.
They are positioning her for a gubernatorial seat but a Biafra fanatic and a bigot like yourself can never decipher the political chess game that the elite in Nigeria play.
They only use mindless foot soldiers like yourself to mouth meaningless Biafra rethoric and execute IPOB madness while they surreptitiously collect the spoils of office and political positions.
At times you need to think deeply. Everything is not nsogbu....nsogbu...

confusedlady:
Continue to bury your head in the sand like an ostrich if that is all your brain could process from what I wrote.

Everything should not be nsogbu...nsogbu at all times. You need to think and reason issues deeply at certain times.

confusedlady:
Let her reject the appointment now....but you and I know she will appear before the Nigeria Senate to be confirmed as Minister of state.
The problem with most of you Biafra zealots and fanatics is that you are not in tune with present day reality. Actually your political leaders use you guys like canon fodder to push their agenda by making you mouth meaningless Biafra agitation in order for them to leverage political appointments in the zoo.
The day is coming when your tin pot god Nnamdi Kanu will be given an appointment in the zoo and he will accept it with glee. That is the day it will dawn on the Ibos screaming Biafra that they are only pawns on the political chess board in Nigeria.

So I wouldn't stop you. Keep on agitation for Biafra. Lock your region down every Monday and run down your economy. Keep on killing and slaughtering yourselves in a demented sit at home mad cap policy,while your political class continue to accept political appointment from the zoo government.
It is only a matter of time before you realise that you are being USED as an nsogbu nsogbu pawn.

muykem:
IPOB members called Obidients are speechless. They think politics means hatred.

Rossikk:
If Tinubu sacked himself and Peter Obi took over, give me ONE MAJOR POLICY REVERSAL he would make.

JUST ONE.

naijaboy756:
APC has damaged this lovely country





Just sit down quietly and honestly ask your self the effect of the actions of all APC members on the entity called Nigeria since 2012.

I WEEP

FatimaAbubakar:
How much are they paying in Ekiti State? Is it up to 30k?

LibertyRep:
Oransanye's Report

Good move

What next?

Alexlalax1:
When will tinubu sack t-pain. I never believed that buhari would fare better than any president dead or alive but t-pain proved me wrong. An incompetent man sacking his equally incompetent appointees, that one na news?

Lanretoye:
if both posters and 90% of people who will support this nonsense are from the same tribe then he is right,you don’t have to quote me,just scroll down and judge by your own conscience if he is right or not

Dougad:
Guy you're dumb

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crossbreedwears:
Lol. You're not a football pundit at all. I will mention 2 players that played better than Rodri last season both Club side and national team