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Vision101:
Tax law that started just in January? How would you conclude that it has not achieved what he wanted?

Applaude good thing. This is killing a major corruption in nnpc. It's part of the economic reform. This is money meant for the entire federation but enjoyed in nnpc. The law empowers them to take 20% as management fee but they at the same time taking additional 30%. This has been on for years. During FAAC states have protested but nothing came of it. No president dare do this. PBAT has sound knowledge of the oil and gas industry. This will release more money to the federal, state and local governments. It's a masterstroke. NNPC is gradually being cleaned. Obi or Atiku can never know this.

When your governors start constructing roads and provide facilities you should thank the person that made it easy for them.

Vision101:
Because he supported a devil to become president so he should go ahead and commit crime? The way some of you reason eeh.

ariesbull:
Jonathan was a weakling in all his doings

ariesbull:
There will not be a central command but a regional command , a Hausa army can't be commanding the battalion of Igbo armies... There would be regional command and they have to work in sync and agree on their actions ! Central command outs lots of power in the centre and we have seen how this has been abused over the years

Central command would have been a good one ...but are we matured for that! Maybe we can try a different approach

WizardOfNG:
I just don't get those people. What concerns Tinubu with the law taking its course against someone who should be an upright statesman yet confessed publicly he engaged in a very serious and treasonable criminal conspiracy against Nigeria?

100 times out of 100 these warped people will reject supporting what is right and best for the greater good of Nigeria and Nigerians, simply because they are too busy siding with wrongdoer misguidedly due to their belief an enemy of their enemy is their friend.

Yet they complain daily they are marginalised and not allowed to lead Nigeria.

Who can trust ultimate power to those with a warped and easily compromised sense of wrong and right?

Who will be comfortable being led by those whose judgment is irrational and always likely to be swayed by a prejudiced need for vindictiveness against others instead of commonsensical inspection of every situation to conclude who/what is right or wrong?

WizardOfNG:
When will you people ever simply condemn who/what is wrong in a particular situation instead of tainting issues with your prejudice and hatred of certain people?

What has this got to do with Tinubu or your biased prior warning against a President you hate primordially?

Why can't you simply comment on whether it is right or wrong, if an objective and law-abiding Nigerian, that El Rufai face prosecution and punishment , if found guilty, over his own arrogant and daring public confession of committing a crime against Nigeria?

If everyone can brag they committed grave offences against Nigeria and such is allowed to go unpunished, then what future does Nigeria have as a nation where rule of law reigns?

adekolaelect:
what is this one saying ? Stale

Elusive001:
And you expect them to answer?

Oluwabash:
Look beyond the imagined African nation to understand Nigeria’s security challenge

By Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar

For generations, Africa has been interpreted through a set of inherited templates that were never designed to explain its realities. These templates offer familiar stories about conflict and governance, not because they are accurate, but because they are comfortable.

They imagine African nations as predictable characters in an old script: driven by ancient divisions, reacting to global events rather than shaping them, and locked in cycles that outsiders believe they understand. The danger is not simply misinterpretation. It is that the imagined version becomes more influential than the real one.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the way Nigeria’s security challenges are framed on the international stage. The persistent claim is that the violence the country faces is primarily religious. This interpretation spreads easily because it fits a long-standing narrative: that African conflict must always be traced to faith or culture.

But this explanation collapses under scrutiny. The security landscape cannot be understood without looking first to the wider Sahel subregion, where the collapse of Libya in 2011 set off a chain reaction that destabilized several states at once. Arms and fighters moved across borders, extremist groups expanded their reach, and communities from Mali to Chad found themselves confronting threats they had not faced before. Nigeria is one of those countries, responding not to an isolated crisis, but to a regional upheaval that reshaped the entire belt of West and Central Africa.


Within Nigeria, this regional shock interacts with local pressures in different ways. In the northeast, insurgent groups exploit institutional weaknesses and economic vulnerability. In the northwest, criminal banditry has taken root in areas where state presence is thin. In central states, climate change has sharpened competition over land and water, intensifying clashes between farmers and herders. These dynamics overlap, but they are not driven by faith. Both Christians and Muslims have been hit by these complex insecurities. Framing this violence as a religious conflict may satisfy an old storyline about Africa, but it obscures the forces actually shaping events and leads to responses that fail to address the roots of the crisis.

A similar gap exists in how Nigeria’s diplomacy is interpreted. The imagined African nation is expected to navigate the world reactively, bending toward whichever global power appears strongest in the moment. But the international environment today does not reward rigid alignment. It rewards agility.

Countries from Brazil to India to Turkey are restructuring their partnerships to reflect a multipolar world in which influence is dispersed and interests shift across issues. Nigeria is doing the same. Its support for Ecowas mediation during moments of regional instability in the West African bloc reflects a commitment to African-led diplomacy. Its cooperation with the United States on governance, technology, and intelligence continues even as both sides reassess parts of their security relationship. Its engagements with China, India, and Gulf states reflect economic opportunity and strategic diversification. These choices do not reveal confusion. They reflect a sober understanding of how power now moves, and the need for African states to be a part of that movement.

There are also practical constraints that very rarely appear in international commentary but shape Nigeria’s options in profound ways. For several years, restrictions under the US Leahy Law delayed equipment and assistance that Nigeria had already paid for. This occurred precisely as extremist networks spread across the Sahel and limited the tools available to confront these groups. Yet even with these constraints, Nigeria continued to contribute to regional stabilization efforts, from Guinea-Bissau to The Gambia to South Sudan.

These examples all point to the same issue: the frameworks used to interpret Africa have not kept pace with reality. Too often, analysis begins with the imagined African nation and then searches for facts to support it. When the frame is wrong, the conclusions will be too.

Nigeria, like many countries today, is navigating pressures that are regional, global, and generational all at once. It is reassessing long-standing partnerships, building new ones, strengthening its institutions, and working to stabilize a region that has experienced profound upheaval. None of this fits the caricatures that have long shaped external commentary about African states.

Africa is moving beyond the version imagined for it by others. It is young, increasingly interconnected, and central to global stability in ways that are only beginning to be acknowledged. Understanding this reality requires letting go of assumptions that were never accurate but have endured out of habit.
If the world continues to engage with an imagined Africa, it will continue to imagine solutions. The real work begins when nations are seen clearly, and when partnership is grounded not in old narratives, but in the demands and opportunities of the moment we actually share.

Yusuf Tuggar is Nigeria’s minister of foreign affairs.

[This article first appeared on semafor.com]

Elusive001:
We all remember the insults, name calling, caricature, ridicule, body shaming that buhari and tinubu did against GEJ. They and their supporters staged protests against GEJ. They were not harassed or tear gassed.

They even mocked his PEJ when she cried over the kidnap of Chibok girls. They made international headlines with the kidnapped girls then.

They spoke quite a lot against GEJ

Buhari has ruled. Tinubi is ruling. What have they done better? How have they improved the lives of ordinary Nigerians, the poor masses they claimed they fought for.

They insulted GEJ over:
The economy
Borrowing
Insecurity
Exchange rate
Subsidy removal
Etc

What has the APC done better?

seunowa:
Central Bank no longer print money to pay workers salaries.

garykoeman:
This is one, borrowing to pay salaries back log of pension owned .


Fuel queue was a daily occurrence.

The oil boom never reflected in our foreign reserve instead it's the opposite.

ariesbull:
The national army will be ok quota where each region will contribute !

ariesbull:
The truth is that to get this sorted out the best thing is divide this nation so that each country will have their own security apparatus... They can have different defence philosophy either being proactive or reactive


I know many unity beggers especially the SW folks and North will not want this .. then the best thing which is another option is go complete confederalism where each region manages their affairs from security to education but will have national army but internal security will be in the hands of the regions

Anything apart from this we are just wasting our times

lapintoz:
Yes because it did not meet the federal quota system of Nigeria. You too open mouth!

Na only you dey NL. 😁😁😁

Tooreda:
Na Osewa's magic be that. I really don't understand what he stands to gain deleting people's comments anyhow.

Nostalemate:
Curb or Stop?.


As how now....why do you say/state this kind of mention.

Shout-out to all chess players earning good money via the game.

bewla:
With the option of three how still vote Tinubu over Atiku and Obi

bewla:
See how low they have make us to look like
In the face of this common criminals

Nigeria most be great again


We most rescue this country from this I most rule by force elements to