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Was there Ransome payments ?

Blessings bro. Thank you

Where is the hemlock . Give them

The husband should follow in Will Smith's footstep . Maybe get a stud and be doing steady 3 some or 4some with your wife . At least she can fulfil her fantasy

The next governor of Lagos State

Thedon22:
This guy is no Yoruba oooo. So it's true what people are saying. I even have some Igbo friends that speak Yoruba better than this guy.

Tinubu should be in an elderly people. Home . Not Aso rock again

The Empty Runway: Tinubu’s Vanishing Act

Nigerians woke up this Sunday, 27 September 2026, expecting their president home. The Presidency had said so. After weeks away on what was billed as a “working vacation” that began on 30 August, first in London and then Paris, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was due back this weekend. Sources close to the itinerary had even specified arrival in Lagos today, a short stay in the commercial capital, then on to Abuja. Citizens watched the skies. The runway stayed empty.

No official statement explained the no-show. No new date was announced by the Presidency as the morning wore on. Later reports suggested a last-minute revision of plans, with a possible Tuesday return whispered by sources. But the official silence was loud. A promise made publicly was broken privately, and the country was left to piece together the itinerary from anonymous briefings.

This is not a minor scheduling hiccup. A president’s movements are not private family logistics. They are matters of state. When the man at the apex of the executive power leaves for nearly a month, extends the stay “by a few days,” and then fails to appear on the day the nation was told to expect him, the least the public is owed is clarity. Instead, Nigerians received another demonstration of the same opacity that has dogged this administration’s handling of presidential absences.

The original three-week leave was already longer than many expected in a country wrestling with insecurity, soaring living costs, and an approaching election cycle. The subsequent extension, announced on 21 September, was framed as brief. The weekend return was presented as settled. Then, without warning or explanation, the plan shifted again. The presidency has insisted throughout that Tinubu remains fully in charge, issuing directives from afar and staying in contact with officials. That claim may be true in a technical sense. It does not answer the deeper question of democratic accountability: why treat the Nigerian public as an afterthought when the head of state changes his plans?

Critics have already raised constitutional concerns about the length of the absence and the failure to formally transmit power under Section 145. Those debates will continue. What is harder to defend is the casual attitude toward basic communication. Leaders elsewhere announce delays, give reasons when they can, and set firm new dates. Here, citizens are left refreshing news sites and scanning social media for scraps of information about their own president’s whereabouts.

Tinubu’s defenders will say a working vacation includes unexpected meetings and that flexibility is necessary. Fair enough. But flexibility is not the same as secrecy. A last-minute change is one thing. Leaving the country without a clear public return date is another. It feeds the impression of a presidency that operates at a remove from the people it governs—comfortable in European capitals, less comfortable with the messy business of explaining itself at home.

Nigeria does not need its president grounded indefinitely. It does need him present, visible, and accountable. When the promised Sunday arrival did not materialise and no firm alternative was offered, the message sent was clear: the schedule of the leader is not the public’s business until further notice. That is a dangerous message in a democracy already strained by distance between rulers and the ruled.

The runway is still empty. The explanation has not arrived. And the return date remains whoever’s guess the next briefing decides to float. Nigerians deserve better than that.

Mtcheeew

Limelight ? Abi Na lemonadelight? See this drug Baron supporting Bandit..

lamentor78:
You forgot to put Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk , your brain has low BP.

You rate this Obi as if is not Atiku that brought him to limelight in 2019.

As at when Peter Obi bought his First House in the UK in 1987 my Parents were still Boyfriend and Girlfriend.

Jim Ovia hadn't started Zenith Bank yet.

Elumelu had just finished NYSC and was a new staff at Union Bank.

Otedola had just become a Managing Director for the first time at Impact Press.

Dangote was still basically a young trader and hadn't moved into manufacturing yet.

Tinubu was still a mere staff at Mobil.

Pastor Chris was still a Student Pastor.

I could go on and on..

Is this the man you are comparing with the Forger in Aso Rock?

If not for Politics who's Wike, Umahi and even Tinubu to Speak when Obi is talking?
OBI IS COMING

Chai

Show evidence

Sleekfingers:
Lies.....there are other parties posters too.. ..I drove past several of NDC poster on Murtala Mohammed way inward Oyingbo yesterday , I saw several NDC posters .

This news is pornographic

Zero level .. NDC is ok : ok is ndc..

Nothing like that . 5th columnist trying hard to sow discord

APCs ineptitude help make the entire economy of a country pivot around a refinery ..

Very sickening

Ogun always giving us yahoo boy vibes

These guys are normal yahoo boys

Yoruba blogger has spoken .. what will the Ibo and other tribes think

Democrats are the main enemy of democracy .. just look at Lagos ? Only APC poster everywhere . Very childish stuff to me ..

Yoruba has spoken

kedeojo:
obi stand no chance of winning next year presidential election. Keep decieving yourself and entire region of igbo presidency. It will never happen in 2027. Thst is for sure.

Peter and Kwankwaso are subservient to the party . So coordination is key

franchasng:
Dick abi Dickson should be very careful, he should know that Peter Obi is more than a political party and lay down low and focus on winning the trophy first before he uses his overzealousness to undermine the party's chances come 2027 which is what APC cult association is praying for and will soon start praising him for

Me too

Peter Obi or Atiku Abubakar is our next C in C.

I just know that APC will loose the next election

APC is doing badly. How can you be a purveyor ofbad things ?

Nice one .. good conservation of wild life

Na waooo ooooooooooooooo

My Yoruba brothers will be affected the most