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Poor journalism from Punch in recent times

Adblg0610:
I think this deal is a bit different. The Chinese are to provide the funds and their technical expertise to rehabilitate, operate and possibly expand the capacities of the two refineries in the future. It is based on Technical Equity Partnership (TEP), which does not cost Nigeria a dime.

Thanks for the explanation. With who I know a typical Chinese to be, I strongly doubt any Chinese will enter into such deal.
I believe there is a lot the government isn't telling us.

Kog45:
Well insecurity but University of Ilorin is losing it due to Ilorinalization,good courses are for Ilorin indigene not even Kwara indigene not to talk of other states.

The implosion of federal institutions in Ilorin is a matter of time, definitely inevitable unless they correct the observation you raised above.
UNILORIN and UITH especially are experiencing it already. They have almost grounded UITH.

Institutions where merit is sacrificed for nepotism can never develop. Any developed and efficient system anywhere in the world today is being maintained mostly by competent "outsiders" and the host communities remain the highest gainers.

Prof Oloyede, an Ogun man, took UNILORIN from the days where no one wanted them. The days when they beg people with admissions and projected it to be mentioned with A list schools.
The school is witnessing gradual decline rn

Armaggedon:
I Will tell you the reason. It borders more on the affordability of higher education in the southwest. The cheaper the school in the southwest, the more the demand. It's not about prestige or education tourism. most native southwesterners choose schools based on cost. That is why federal universities in the southwest dominate the list including the new one in oye ekiti unlike the east where people are more willing to explore states and even private unis. Easterners form a very significant, if not the highest student population of southwest private unis and then form an overwhelmingly majority of the student population in the fast emerging private university education sector in the east.

There are several factors that resulted in this stat but affordability issues pushed native southwesterners into cheaper federal unis, leaving their private unis and that of the east for Easterners to occupy. You can confirm this from southwest nelfund application figures.

You're sha cooking the "facts" in your head to make you feel good.
There is this saying that if you want to lure a Yoruba man, build a school where you want him to be. Cost is the least of the factors driving those people's choice of where to study. Typical SW parents will sell belongings and inheritance to send children to good schools.

And yes, SW has most high quality schools. See that FUOYE dragging top spots with first generation schools? It's a 4th or 5th gen school established during Jonathan period. None of the ones established together with it can move close to it today. This shows the kind of attention those people give to schools.

Quite a number of people from other geopolitical zones making waves had contact with SW education. Lolll.
Check those top UTME scorers and see where they had their secondary education.

There are other things the zone may not have, there is no perfect society but you see education, they have hacked it

koxyz:
LASU always give preference to Lagos Indigenes over others.

So, they should build and run the school with Lagos resources and give preference to people from other states who give preference to their own indigenes too, thereby leaving Lagos indigenes stranded.
State and private institutions are at liberty to decide their preference criteria.

Even federal schools have catchment areas

This is really sad and we pray for the return of peace and tranquility to every inch of our country.

When we criticize this government, this exactly is what we mean but blind supporters would start reeling out things with zero impact on the average citizen.

For me, any government where citizens' welfare is poor is a failed government. Today, families are suffering with anguish and pains of insecurity, inflation, amidst insensitive government spendings.

Personally, I don't mind another president doing exactly what this present government is doing but allowing Tinubu to continue will be the height of disrespect to the wellbeing of the people. It'll be like, "we can make you suffer and there is nothing you can do!". We need to send him packing so that subsequent governments will know that there are consequences of ignoring the people's wellbeing.

If leaders know that people can vote them out for poor performance, they will sit up.
Anybody but APC is fine come 2027.

I hope Obi's supporters won't blow away this partnership. Regardless of who is on the billboard, is the goal not to get the votes for the NDC which Obi is the candidate. Also, it's a joint ticket, a vote for Kwankwaso is a vote for Obi. The billboard might have been made by a supporter without the knowledge of Kwankwaso.

Obi is a hard sell in the core North, NW especially. If you truly want results, you simply can't market him directly to the average Northern voter, you have to attach him to a trusted Northerner's image. The trust gap is wide, very wide.

Good thing is, he doesn't even need to win those states, he just need to garner something significant and 25%. This mob-like actions of his supporters don't build alliance. Kwankwaso doesn't really have anything to lose if OK ticket fails in 2027. He's just paving way for his 2031 contest knowing fully well that his chances are slim in APC. He simply needs the next viable platform to run. Obidients might say, if he doesn't work well for OK to win now, they won't support him in 2031, that will further widen the trust gap for future aspirants from that axis.

All these "I'm the better candidate" mindset will cause more harm than good. Afterall, it's democracy where a Prof and an absolute illiterate are entitled to same one vote each. Nothing like the "better" vote.

Time to waste some billions of dollars of our commonwealth again

Starhearts:
Dey way u talk say , make him chat U up.
Hope at end of day ... U no go ask 4 ur cut in d 30milluon naira

lol
What do you expect.
Majority of the analysts here don't have 300k in their accounts as we type, infact, not all have 30k their accounts

It's actually a dicey situation and depends on op's options. Not a direct answer.

Nigeria's business environment and economy is extremely volatile. One systemic failure event (health crisis, business shock, security breach etc) will turn 30m into dust.

You will notice all of them keep saying "business, invest" bla bla without being specific. Again, Naija biz environment is very unstable.

God's guidance to the op

LollyP94:
I agree with some of your opinion here💯

But do you think the core northern states which form the bulk votes would vote reasonably ( getting 25% ) for Obi as president? Knowing quite well these people are typically Muslim- Hausas/fulanis.

Average Hausa/Fulani person would prefer a Yoruba man as leader than an Igbo man.

That's the essence of the alliance. Kwankwaso is more than capable to deliver that.

Opinion leaders dictate northern votes. District/village heads, local chiefs, imams influence the average citizen on who to vote. Going to directly campaign to the people in the north (NW especially) is useless
Instead, you get the opinion leaders to trust you. Then, they'll do the work. With my experience in the north, Obi can't directly convince these people to trust him, the trust gap is too wide. If he's able to get some big northern politicians to trust him, they will do the work, with the hope of taking over in 2031. They will be the face of the movement in their region.

I believe it's possible but this "I'm the best" mentality of Obi and his supporters won't cut it.

egunna:
Noif obi continues on this trajectory of I am better than anyone else, he will never be president in Nigeria. You guys don't calculate. Of all the big wigs willing to contest in ADC, obi is the least politically. Asides being a governor, what does obi have to show politically? these other ppl are either a senator, minister, governor or vp. Obi has never played on national stage, yet, you expect them to come under him. Una go wait tire

You're either clearly ignorant of the subject matter or being intentionally mischievous. I'll save myself the energy.

GravityDefier:
If Atiku had waited without forming APC opposition against Jonathan, he would have become president after Jonathan's second term in 2019. And he ought to be completing his 8 years next year 2027.

I don't agree. APC didn't need Atiku to win in 2015.
Seems we forget things too soon. Insecurity was at its peak during Jonathan's era, daily bomb. He had to hire mercenaries to reclaim LGs. Elections were postponed to achieve this. It was that bad. Jonathan cracked the PDP. Remember NPDP.

That the present government is a monumental failure doesn't make Jonathan's government good. His government was bad and people were tired. We keep comparing bad governments and rating the less evil as a "good" one.

Atiku's support couldn't have saved Jonathan in 2015.

2023 was Atiku's best chance to Aso rock. He blew the golden opportunity. He lost to Tinubu with barely 1.8m margin. A properly managed PDP could have delivered this.

ThunderFireAgba:
Commit to one term and do exactly WHAT IN 4YRS? If I may ask?
With the sorry state of this country what magic is he going to perform?
Save money and leaveit for the next incoming to squander like he did in his state?
All these stories won't fly and his political career will be ending next year.

4years is more than enough for any serious leader to have impacts. Lots of one term governors with things they are being remembered for, whether good or bad.
Tinubu is barely 3years in power, there are impacts, good and bad, that he'll forever be remembered for.

Amumaigwe:
If not for that his morbid greed and shortsightedness, he would have been the one roundingoff his second term as a president under PDP.

can you please explain this?

ThunderFireAgba:
Get ready for a repeat of 2023. You blame Atiku but not Obi. You want someone with 8million votes to give way for someone with 6million votes that is afraid of primaries abi??
Congratulations to Tinubu in advance cos I will work against Obi this election.

Atiku didn't have 8m votes. He had 6,984,520 specifically while Obi had 6,101,533.

There are traditional PDP votes in Atiku's votes. He had 2.6m with ACN in 2007.
LP has never pooled 200k votes in a presidential race.

Apart from Buhari, no Nigerian politician has ever single handedly pooled 6m. None! Unlike Obi who is running helter skelter with whooping 6.1m votes, Buhari consistently held on to his 12m till big Southern politicians were ready to queue behind him with the hope of taking turn after him. It was largely those Southerners on the queue like Tinubu, Amaechi who funded APC's 2015 elections.

With a viable opposition platform, big northern politicians would gladly queue behind Obi rn with the hope of 2031. This platform is what Obi should be working on and NDC seems the answer at the moment. I hope Obi will be able to convincingly commit to one term deal.

LollyP94:
Obi/Kwa will surely garner reasonable number of votes across the country except SOUTH WEST. Yet it won't be enough to defeat BAT. Because of one single reason-Atiku will divide the votes. Opposition votes will surely be divided 💯.

Mind you BAT still have a reasonable number of supporters in the north-which is the determinant.

Obi/Kwa ticket would deliver nothing less than 1m votes in SW, it'll be way more if they played the politics well which is more than enough spoiler in BAT's base. The combo will clear SE and SS as usual.
It'll clear Christian states in the NC and get required 25% in some NE states.
They don't need to win any NW state, all they need is 25% to fulfill spread requirements.

If you check 2023 results, you'll see that you don't need to win most states to emerge. You just need to drag votes everywhere to give you simple majority, then 25% in 24 states which the combo is more than capable of doing. North is angry rn but they need leaders to trigger the outrage. Once there is a viable opposition platform, lots of northern leaders would dump APC.

Bentacur007:
I expect Obi to resign too.. Atiku is very greedy I have never seen any greedy politician like him..He doesn’t calculate well and he is not very smart

Obi has no business going to ADC in the first place. You can't take 6.1m organic votes to be begging or dragging ticket. Obi, using a party with no structure, lost to Tinubu in 2023 with barely 2.7m margin and Kwankwaso alone pooled almost 1.5m. He doesn't need Atiku to win. Atiku has used smaller platforms before, getting barely 2m votes. With proper positioning, parties should be toasting Obi by now, begging to make a deal with him. Obi is the biggest opposition leader in this country today.

I seriously don't know what he was thinking when he joined ADC. Was it that he would win in primary/consensus or that Atiku would step down for him or that he would be running mate, a combo that would have defeated Tinubu blue black in 2023.

Obi should go and make deal with Seriake Dickson's NDC. Big northerners would align with him, staying on the queue against 2031. He would just have to show unambiguous commitment to a one term deal. Lots of big northern politicians are in the APC today because of lack of viable alternative.

Bluntguy:
Una dey even still see nightlight for una side. For North both nightlife and day life dem no see.

Stop this annoying talk. Talks like this make our useless leaders think a section of the country is better. The length and breadth of this country is facing security challenges...security issues have increased everywhere.

If it's by comparison, there is night life in the north. Some areas of the north only hear of attacks only in the news.

You guys will just hide in one village, after drinking palmwine or ogogoro and be typing anyhow about places you have never stepped foot on.

Ambode, the simp
Zero balls.

Unfortunately, he's a goner in APC. No amount of bootlicking can get him back to the good books of the kingmakers again.

They trusted a pure technocrat like you with the number one seat of a state like Lagos. The politicians played the game, got you installed. In barely 4years, you felt you could challenge them. You failed, then still expect them to trust you again. Isn't that jazz?

Fight that should have been a total one. Once he lost APC ticket that year, he should have sought PDP's ticket even if it meant him resigning or being impeached since he couldn't win a reasonable number of the members of the Assembly to his side in good 4years. The worst outcome is same as what eventually happened. He could have gotten pity votes, support from Tinubu's enemies in Buhari's cabinet, his fellow governors, PDP etc. Even if he would lose, he would have done so after putting up a good fight. His chances of winning was definitely not zero. He didn't put up any fight. Weak man!

He should better join ADC or NDC so that when/if they win, the juice will reach him.

DeZoro:
Truth should remain truth. The Judiciary should appoint INEC chair

The executive appoints judiciary

opalu:
This judgement is like a setup
I hope ADC's team of lawyers will explain to them better to avoid stories.

The SC suppose to declare clearly that the David-Mark leadership is authentic

My advice, ObiKwan should jejely move to NDC.

Leave them. The suit regarding authentic chairman wasn't determined unlike in LP's case. To make it worse, SC referred Gombe's case to trial court. It's a big trap.
David Mark led executives would sign aspirants' election documents, by the time the suit return to SC from trial court through Appeal court, it'll be late for ADC.

I strongly agree with your advice. They should jejely go to a platform without baggage. Tinubu is super desperate to return and a strategic approach is needed to take off all options off his table.

WizardOfNG:
They are incapable of rational reasoning. Everything begins and end with fighting everything and everyone to a standstill for those people.

It's annoying. Politics of tribal and religious propaganda is extremely dangerous especially in a mulitethnic, multi-religious country like ours.

There are more than enough things this government can be held with devoid of dangerous propaganda.

Starcrest1:
Yoruba President has done it again.
Government of the Yoruba, from the Yoruba and for the Yoruba.

The ignorance and hypocrisy you guys exude is stunning.
Adelabu is from Oyo and another Oyo man picked to replace him. It's Oyo state's ministerial slot. What's the fuzz about?

Ojukwu (Anambra) was used to replace Tuggar (Bauchi) as foreign affairs minister, no complaints from you.

Can't you guys just be objective for once?

Spaxon:
Another Yoruba

But it's Nothing right?

It's Oyo state's ministerial slot.
Adelabu is from Oyo

dominique:
If you haven't, go and get a wi-fi router like the one the lady in the video is using. Using your phone as an internet source for remote work can be disastrous. You cannot control the calls that come into your phone

It wasn't a remote work. It was the interview that was remote.

iamjavadem:
Exactly why i dont believe her. Never heardanyone got fired for bad internet.

People can actually be fired for poor internet depending on what the job is about.
Some remote works won't even take you if you're from some countries because the believe is that those countries do not meet the network and power requirements for the tasks. Some will have you do internet speed tests for your workspace and drop you once not satisfactory.
In all, things aren't very reliable in our system tbvh.
Imagine investing in Starlink, three ISPs and still having network issues. What percentage of Nigerians can even afford these things?

This almost happened to me last year.

So, December last year, I got shortlisted for an interview for an overseas job.
I had to drive to the best network area. Waited well before the time.

Interview started, they were asking just what I know. Then one of my cousins who hasn't called me for years started calling. The more I ended the call, the more she called, disrupting my mobile network. I quickly picked it. She said she just wanted to say hi. At this hour and minute?
She hasn't called me again since then.

I apologized to the panel that it was my network and that it was quite unusual bla bla. They understood and we continued the interview.

Minutes into it again, network completely disappeared. No coverage at all. Ha! I drove around a bit and it reappeared and I reconnected. We continued.

Few minutes into it again, it disappeared. Now, I was sweating. After a while, it reappeared and they asked few more questions, I asked mine, and interview was over.

I was convinced the job was gone but days later, I received a contract. Everyone I knew who interviewed for it wasn't picked. It was like a miracle.

Nigeria system is almost built to frustrate everything.

gabbytabby:
I will come back to tell you I told you so. He is focused on tasks and not a great multi tasker.

Not everything has to end as an all out fight some are lessons, moments of self introspection and personal growth except for ungrateful and disloyal ones who never change.

Where is Aregbesola and Obaseki. Others will just use them and move on.

Lolll. This is politics. Powerplay. Why do you think politicians do the unimaginable to be in power? Had Ambode succeeded in his quest in 2019, that would have ended Tinubu's political career.
Tinubu has been in the game long enough not to permit someone capable of attempting that to be too close to him. It was disloyalty. FYI, Ambode didn't repent, he contested the primaries and lost.

The best Ambode can get is an Ambassador (like them FFK, Reno), head of some not very active MDAs, or something similar.

gabbytabby:
Ambode will do well as a minister of the Federal republic.

Lolll. He's a goner. He's simply wasting his time in APC. What he did is a journey of no retreat, no surrender. You don't back out along the line. So, it's either you win and take all (like Obaseki, Ganduje) or lose and lose all (like Aregbesola).

How can you challenge someone's political dynasty, lose out and still be seeking to benefit from it?
Search Ambode's videos in the run up to 2019 elections. For me, he's a dangerous coward for still remaining in APC. I like men with balls. Men who know consequences and ready to face the consequences of their choices.

ceejay80s:
so what happens to ambode

Is he the only eligible person?