₦airaland Forum

chrisxxx:
I doubt if you have met anyone who supports APC. They don't have a second thought.

chrisxxx:
Ekiti Poll has given credence to too many of us who believe that Tinubu would win the presidential election. We are not necessarily supporting Tinubu. But the truth must be told based in political realities. Segun Oni contesting the gubernatorial election led to the division of votes due PDP. It is also important to say that many PDP supporters who would have voted for Oni didn't vote at all knowing that Oni wouldn't win in SDP. In the end the winner is APC.
This is what will happen in the general election. At best Obi LP will come second best. Howbeit nearly can't fall a bird. Anyone who thinks that anyone who supports APC both in the North or South will see reason (no matter how good a candidate may be) to vote against APC is on a long dream. APC has a constant 12 million votes from the north. They are waiting for the election date. They are usually useful every four years.
We should brace up for this reality. Tinubu is the next president with Obi and Atiku contesting.

istina:
Naija ladies can no longer marry a man whose reward is in heaven

Afam4eva:
Machina does not need to worry himself. He should allow Lawan go ahead and win the election for him, so that the courts can sack him.

Teymanhenry:
Obi was not calculative enough. He could have stayed played the waiting game and remained in PDP to become Atiku's running mate. This would give him a better chance of becoming a president in a few years. Now he's gone to LP n realized the inevitable. Even when the man of God told you that you'll become president, you gotta act smartly

Heroicvic:
I come in peace to witness this violence, not to partake in it in any form but to feed off of it. I do not support the oppressor neither do I feel for the oppressed and I will not tolerate anyone who seek peace, for violence is the only option.
On this ground will I seat and witness unrest.
So help me God✋�

AbijaJ:
Wait a minute. So, after the initial gra-gra of dumping PDP for its unwillingness to let him fly their ticket (and rejecting a high possibility of getting the VP slot), Peteru Obi go still end up as VP under a mushroom party like NNPP? Peter Obi, see your life??

AnambraPrince:
You mean Fayose the former governor that lost his seat but came back to contest with GEJ federal might and money? Yes, I was born. I'm probably older than your father

BlakKluKluxKlan:
Daydreaming mofos

AnambraPrince:
APC won all the local governments in Ekiti. And this is a place that is usually around 50 - 50. But my igbo tribe has finally succeeded in teaching Yoruba people tribalism. People that are normally very liberal. But everyone in Nigeria is embracing their tribalism with pride now just to score political points that we igbos don't have monopoly of tribalism.

Tinubu will get at least 90% of SW votes. Same thing will happen in the North, Northerners will queue behind Buhari's candidate, which means another 80% Northerners votes for Tinubu. My people will vote for Obi, which means 90% igbo votes for Obi. SS will vote APC maybe around 65%. And some bloody jokers keep living in a fools paradise that Obi will win.

Congratulations to my igbo family, we have succeeded in making the 2023 elections the most tribalistic elections in history. We just never learn. Always on the wrong side of history!

4teenblaq:
Why is the guy above me so bothered about PO not winning?

SNEFF:
them don try, all follow for hustle, and this wan na hard currency

hopman98:
Dear BATTALIONS, don't follow them to drag their candidate, rather reply their campaign against JAGABAN with facts and proofs, when campaign starts, we'll unveil our magical moves from the pandora box

Parachoko:
Unless you don't want to be sincere to yourself, APC is still the most powerful party in Nigeria. APC still have majority in the Senate and House Of Rep.

The joke is on you though.

Nigeria’s inflation rate has again surged to 17.71 per cent, according to latest figures by the National Bureau of Statistics.

In May 2022, the inflation rate increased to 17.71 per cent on a year-on-year basis, the NBS said on Wednesday.

It stated in its ‘CPI and Inflation Report May 2022’ that the latest figure is a 0.22 per cent points lower than the rate recorded in May 2021, which is (17.93) per cent.

The report read in part, “This means that the headline inflation rate slowed down in the month of May when compared to the same month in the previous year (i.e. the year 2021). Increases were recorded in all classification of individual consumption by purpose divisions that yielded the headline index.”




On a month-on-month basis, the headline inflation rate increased to 1.78 per cent in May 2022, this is also 0.02 per cent rate higher than the rate recorded in April 2022 (1.76) per cent.

The urban inflation rate increased to 18.24 per cent (year-on-year); this is a 0.27 per cent decline compared to 18.51 per cent recorded in May 2021.


On a month-on-month basis, the urban inflation rate rose to 1.81 per cent in May 2022, this is a 0.03 per cent increase compared to April 2022 (1.78).

The corresponding 12-month average percentage change for the urban index is 17.00 per cent in May 2022. This is 0.91 per cent higher compared to 16.09 per cent reported in May 2021.

The rural inflation rate increased to 17.21 per cent in May 2022 (year-on-year) basis; this is a 0.15 per cent decline compared to 17.36 recorded in May 2021.

On a month-on-month basis, the rural index rose to 1.76 per cent in May 2022, up by 0.02 per cent from the rate recorded in April 2022 (1.74), while the corresponding 12-month average percentage change for the rural inflation rate in May 2022 is 15.91 per cent.

This is 0.97 per cent higher compared to 14.94 per cent recorded in May 2021.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH, an economic expert at the Pan-Atlantic University, Associate-Professor Olalekan Aworinde, said the events of the last few months were apt indicators that the inflation rate would increase further.

fergie001:
The chameleonic Eremienyo
Orunimighe Timipa
Wilson Dauyegha

Ahmad Alkali, Joshua Lidani, Goje (Gombe)

Naijabad:
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has stated clearly that the presidential flag bearer of APC will vomit all the money he stole from lagos state.

pacesetting:
He quote China una complain, e don go Egypt una still dey complain. Which ancestor curse some Nigerians?

Figures obtained on Monday from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator, an arm of the Federal Government’s power transmission company, showed that the national electricity grid actually crashed from a peak of 3,703 megawatts to as low as 9MW on Sunday.

Nigeria witnessed widespread blackout on Sunday after the national grid collapsed around 6.49pm, before engineers from the Transmission Company of Nigeria strived to ensure the recovery of the grid.

The PUNCH had reported on Monday that Sunday’s grid collapse was the fifth in 2022, a development that made many power distribution companies to shut down their various outgoing electricity feeders.

Data sourced from the NESO on Monday in Abuja, which showed the performance of the national grid on Sunday, indicated that the peak generation on Sunday of 3,703MW was recorded at 5am.

But this crashed to 9MW at 7pm on Sunday, according to the NESO, leading to the eventual collapse of the national grid.

Various Discos including Enugu Electricity Distribution Company Plc, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, among others, had confirmed the grid collapse in various messages on Sunday night.

Although no official statement from TCN as per the grid collapse yet, it was gathered that its restoration reached an advanced stage on Monday, as power generation rose to 2,744.6MW around 6am on Monday.

Nigeria’s power grid had collapsed twice in March and twice again in April this year. Power generation on the system had continued to fluctuate due to various concerns such as gas constraints, water management challenges, gas pipeline vandalism, among others.

Following the instability in Nigeria’s power supply, experts and consumer groups in the sector urged politicians to desist from generating political megawatts as they woo voters ahead of the 2023 general elections.

“Stop generating political megawatts. Stop generating electric power on the pages of newspapers and social media,” an industry expert, who doubles as President, Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo, stated.

He added, “‘I will increase power generation from 5,000MW to 30,000MW’. How do you intend to do that? Please let us know. Nigeria presently has grid sourced power generation capacity of 7,500MW, but only an average of 3,600MW gets to the end-users.


“We also have 14,500MW installed generation capacity that our national energy quantum could be ramped up. There is available power on the grid that is usually rejected by the 11 electricity distribution companies and TCN.”

“Yet the nation have been permanently configured into a vicious circle of distribution of darkness and perpetual energy crises due to gas constraints, market settlement crises, tariff and market shortfall, near-zero regulatory ecosystem, grid infrastructural limitations, technical deficits and broadly speaking – grid constraints.”

Olubiyi said why was it that since December 2021, the power supply situation in Nigeria had gone beyond comprehension and most embarrassingly unpleasant.

The consumer group president urged the presidential candidates of the frontline political parties to speak straight to the fundamental issues “and tell Nigerians how they will address the root causes of energy crises in Nigeria.”

“And not by making bogus promises and claims as per the electricity sector. We need to be informed in specific terms how they intend to address the challenges bedeviling the power sector.”

The spokesperson for the Electricity Consumers Association of Nigeria, Chijioke James, told The PUNCH that electricity consumers across the country were not happy with the low power supply.

“Of course, we are not satisfied. Consumers want to have a steady and reliable power supply. We have not seen a remarkable improvement in electricity supply across the country, and consumers are not satisfied”, he said