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What difference will it make if I write here and proffer solutions that will ultimately be effete? You think this is about reinventing the wheel? Do you think that deep down those guys in government who have simply refused to do the right thing do not know what should be done and how to do it for the benefit of the greatest number of Nigerians? Do you not realise that this is squarely a problem of elite interest and the unwillingness of a clique to do right? Why is it this hard to see?

ghm:
We are not talking about the government but YOU!
We know you are not in government but want things to be better.
If you know so much to see clearly and judge the policies, then you must have some re-reforms in your hands. It takes patriotism to have such passion. That is what we are asking you.

Besides, you don't know who is asking you, it may be the C-in-C himself.

What do you think would help the average Nigerian? What policy should be reversed or implemented? No vagueness, no insults, no aggression but objectivity.

Before the family hired a CEO, remember that it based on the promises different applicants for the job made at the recruitment interview. The family looked at its current conditions especially in view of the work of the most immediate past CEO and decided to give this current one a chance to actualize his promises, promises which specifically stated that he'd improve the overall living condition of the family. He's been there now for nearly three years and the members of the family are all the poorer for it. This is not even debatable. He's done a poor job of the assignment and I don't see why the ifs and buts.

This is exactly why it's baffling when excuses are being made or the victim is being asked to proffer solutions. Is that how many of the companies we celebrate here as examples of working, successful corporations do it? Do they hire a CEO who turns out to be inept and then ask customers and staff to proffer solutions for how the CEO can do better?

As for the practical specifics, the straight answer is: provide those things or simply quit. Give the people regular and affordable power which will become a catalyst for industrial and SME production leading to increased employment and growth.

Provide security regardless of how you do it. Nigerians should be able to go to bed eveey night and sleep with their two eyes closed. They should be able to move from one part of the country to another at any time of the day and night without worry about getting to their destinations. If it would take firing all your security chiefs who are sitting on their hands and doing nothing while parts of the country are ravaged by bandits, then so be it.

Although it appears that this has become a rice economy where the commodity is the be all solution to the people's needs as far as this government is concerned, you'll agree with me that making it easier for the people to cultivate the rice on their own rather than giving them bags of it makes more strategic and sustainable sense.

And I disagree with your take on education and healthcare too. Even with the two sectors being on the concurrent list, we know how much influence the FG wields in those areas. The biggest teaching hospitals are still owned and underfunded by the FG. The biggest educational institutions especially are federally owned and run down. Yet the same FG received the largest percentage of all FAAC. allocations relative to the states. What does it do with all those trillions?

Ultimately, there's no way things will improve if we continue this way of making excuses for those who should be held accountable for their stewardship.

GeneralDae:
Well, it’s just like when you appoint someone as CEO of your family company. The CEO may have his own ideas on how to make the family better short term, mid term, or long term. It’s possible that the CEO implements policies which you in the family do not like. You have the right to challenge the CEO and tell him exactly what you want else he is convinced that what he is doing already is in the best interest of the family.

Now you have given some practical things you want:

Electric Power : The CEO has clearly failed so far but he has made some excuses like debt constraints since 2015 and lack of gas availability. If you see this as stupid excuses (which they might be) and sack this CEO, what would you like to hear from the new CEO you vote for? What timeline? How do you want him to tackle the efficiency problem and debt problem in a different way?

Security for the family: This current CEO is working on state police and a police trust fund for every member of the family. Is that good enough? This CEO seem to have failed in proposing more strategic methods in following the money to solve the kidnapping problem. Do you think so too and what do you expect from the new CEO you want to employ in tackling kidnapping? Would state police for the sake of state police be enough?

Affordable living for the family: How should this be done? Sharing rice? Keke empowerments? World bank’s 5k to 14 million households? Removal of fuel subsidies? FX pegging? What major policy implementation or policy reversal would bring about affordable cost of living in the short term?

Healthcare: Healthcare is largely in the hands of your state and local Governments who are now empowered more than ever to do more. Do you task them on it?

Education: Isn’t this one of the best Governments in education since the 1980’s with NELFUND, Free technical colleges (which have increased enrollment), and lack of ASUU strikes in 3 years ? Primary education and out of school children issues are largely in the hands of your Governors and LGA’s. Do you know this?

If you want me to do a policy document for the government for free, you really are expecting too much. Let their policy experts appointed and retained on very attractive salaries and allowances do their job. Nobody forced those at the helm of affairs on the job. They sought for it and made promises about what they would do if given the opportunity. Now they're there and they are asking for clues on how to fulfill their promises. No be juju be that?

ghm:
Vague (as usual) and you know it. If you can write the above, you should know they are vague.

You mean someone deliberately sought to lead and when he gets there it is left for the one whom he made promises to, to list out for how to make his living conditions better while he takes all the glories of being the leader? I really don't get it. Maybe, he should start from his actual promises. Power. Regular and affordable electricity. Security. Reduction in the cost of living. Affordable healthcare. Education. I mean the list is endless. I am surprised that you are asking me to chart a roadmap for these here for the government or to develop a policy document for attaining these. So, what is the job of all the wonks and technocrats appointed and being paid for that purpose? We make too much excuses for non-performance in this country and when a few point it out, we turn the nuzzle in their direction and leave those we really should be holding accountable.

GeneralDae:
This is too vague. What specific corruption should they trim that would solve our problems? Also, how do you focus on the people? What policies would mean the Government is focusing on the people? List practical policies ie is it anchor’s borrower’s program, nelfund, free technical colleges (with stipends), npower, surep, sharing rice, fuel subsidies, credicorp, etc?
Give practical solutions so when you protest or you go vote, you know exactly what you want and not a vague focus on the people or stop corruption.

Maybe we should start with cutting down on the corruption. Trim the outrageous wastage in governance. Then, actually focus on the people rather than on the politicians and their elite cliques in business and the executive suites. That's what a serious minded government facing the sort of conditions that Tinubu met in 2023 would do.

GeneralDae:
What do you think would help the average Nigerian? What policy should be reversed or implemented?

I doubt that there's really much you can debunk from the piece if you look at it entirely from the actual living conditions of the average Nigerian these past three years which is exactly what the writer has emphasizing on. When Reno Omokri and the other Tinubu apologists point you to the stock market and flash so-called macro-economic indices and cold stats that do not tell any convincing story on the worsening personal living conditions of the average Nigerian to 'debunk' the reality of majority of Nigerians, conditions that are now purely one of straightforward poverty and abject destitution, then you know they're simply the privileged ones who have no personal stakes in the daily suffering of the majority. But like a wise philosopher reportedly quipped: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.'

GeneralDae:
I can debunk most of the things there but this is not the thread for that. I however agree we need to slow down on the borrowing especially eurobonds. We also have to find ways to get inflation down to single digits so we can cut interest rates.
To do that, Goverment should introduce some form of subsidy. Use the current windfall (if price remains at $120 per barrel) to subsidize diesel and be more aggressive on CNG infrastructure/roll out for big firms.

Let us pretend to not notice that this kidnapped family is completely Christian. Let it not come from our mouth that this part of hated word 'genocide'.

omoredia:
Upon all this ur long talk when u meet Osimen u go still beg for transport money. Hungry journalist

You say when he meets Osimhen? Person wey don already meet Osimhen before, dobale and beg am for money. Na because dem no give am make vex dey write this rubbish.

hatchy:
This will not last, no be Nigeria again?

Nigerians will make AA Rano regret bringing this innovative initiative that has existed in advance countries to Nigeria. They will device a way to bypass the system and cheat the business.

Mark my words.

You mean the same way Nigerians have made the first bank that introduced ATM machines as alternatives to entering the banking hall to withdraw cash to regret and shut down the machines, abi?

The young agile Chief is still very alive and kicking. The reporter who called him late must be very foolish and his/editor incompetent.

delzbaba:
Emeka Anyaoku is not dead or is he?

And wetin Finidi George and Samson Siasia dey wait for before dem talk? Dem no be SouthSouth former players? Evrry time una go dey look for unnecessary wahala.

southsouthking:
While Okocha and kanu nwankwo is sitting one side paying deaf ears.

And wetin Finidi George and Samson Siasia dey wait for before dem talk? Dem no be SouthSouth former players?

southsouthking:
While Okocha and kanu nwankwo is sitting one side paying deaf ears.

What is really going on at FirstHoldco and between Otedola and Thisday's Nduka Obaigbena? From the look of things, it seems some people are clearly above the law as the regulatory agencies of CBN, SEC and NGX can't seem to even enforce their own rules.

In the end, it is the small fry investors like some of us that bear the brunt of any negative fallouts on the possible poor performance of the company and the attendant dip in the value of its shares.


https://www.thisdaylive.com/2025/07/22/thisday-arise-media-group-responds-to-harassment-and-attack-on-free-speech-press-freedom-by-firstholdco-plc/

You have a LOOSE sense of spelling.

olaiya2007:
FG got nothing to loose.... Meta on the other hand got a lot to loose

crownprince2017:
https://doclib.ngxgroup.com/Financial_NewsDocs/43914_FIDSON_HEALTHCARE_PLC-_QUARTER_1_-_FINANCIAL_STATEMENT_FOR_2025_FINANCIAL_STATEMENTS_APRIL_2025.pdf

Meet you at #30 soon.

Q4 results showed the expo for who could decode them.

Oga CP, I am surprised that apart from this mention by you about the Fidson result, no one else seems to have even bothered to cast a glance in its direction despite the fact that the EPS tripled from the same period last year. What is it about the company that seems to disinterest folks here? Are they prone to starting the year on a bright note like in this Q1 result and later petering out because it's strange that an EPS that rose from 45 to 142 YoY could barely register on the radars of gurus here.
One more thing sir, what expo from Q4 exactly do you mean? Shalom.

unite4real:
How come on the report, 2024 full year PAT of N87.4 Billion have EPS of 483 kobo while Q1 2025 with a PAT of N35.8 Billion is having 802 kobo.
Maybe I am not seeing well. Something is not adding up or I am not understanding something here.
Shouldn't a lower PAT mean lower EPS even when the company is having more OS

It's either a mistake from them or else they annualized the EPS for Q1 2025.

The only senseless one here is you that must tell a successful and handsome adult male where he is to choose his life partner from. Ozuor.

GOFRONT:
You see Ngolo , You see Sadio, these two are the real G.O.A.T in Africa...........they both have sense. They returned home to pick their wives however huge their money and fames...

But you see Mikel Obi, you see Ekong Very senseless Footballers. They prefer to marry Russians

Akinpresident:
Nwokem, Okezie aburo my brother. I'm not an Ngwa man. He messed up no doubt. But it doesn't change the fact that Otti isn't getting things right. Repairing roads is good. But roads repairs aren't the only thing to do in governance. There are other sectors like health, agriculture, education, youth empowerment and job creation. He has not done anything in this regard unlike other governors in the south East.
And even the roads he's repairing, the costs are more expensive than any other one in the country.

If you're not Onye Ngwa, then it's obvious that you support the previous ancien regime, the PDP that in the past 24 years before the coming of Otti, left Abia State in the state of utter ruin that Otti, in less than 2 years, is valiantly trying to retrieve it. You say there are other sectors for Otti to handle other than roads. By saying that, it shows that you are either being deliberately purblind to the integrated developmental strides taking place in the state in the past 22 months or you're just purposely being mischievous. Unlike your OUK, TO and OVI, Otti has shown by his visionary approach to the development of the state via infrastructure, education, healthcare and industrialization through the creation of a conducive environment for private sector players to flourish, he was prepared and knew what the challenges had been before he ran for office. Can the same be said of the bozos that came before him especially the last one whose only known achievement was becoming the servile slave of his fellow governor from a South South state? Sometimes, people should look truth in the face and tell it for what it is. Are you not aware that many Abia indigenes who were too embarrassed to say what state they come from during those 24 locust years are today the same ones who proudly proclaim it from the rooftops that they're from God's Own State. That's the positive effect that a committed and result-oriented leadership, even in just 22 months, is capable of having on a people who had long been denied of such leadership.

Akinpresident:
Obere ihe unu akogheriwe.
If e sure for you come out at MCC junction so we can go round and see all these roads you're talking about.

Is Port Harcourt road ready?

After everything you said, you still said repaired roads. Was he voted to only repair roads?
Building new roads is alien to him?

Nwanne Okezie Ikpeazu ihere o na emekwa du gi? You're asking if PH road is ready. Your useless ineffectual brother was there for 8 solid years and all he managed to have ready was an Aba littered with refuse and potholes and unpaid salaries and pensions of still active and retired workers.

Ever since Buhari turned the Nigerian Customs into Northern Customs with more than 70% of the recruitment going to the North, the service has completely lost whatever used to its discipline. The operatives have more or less turned into gangsters while their former CG Col. Hamid Ali whom Buhari foisted on the service from retirement embodied the highest level of indiscipline and disrespect to constituted authority by refusing the demand of the NASS for him to both wear the service uniform as well as appear before the legislative house. Everything bothering on impunity and disregard for the law happening today with the customs should not be a surprise to anyone.

Na hunger go finish you, foolish entitlement mumu. JayJay no dey look proud beggars like you for face.



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This clown 🤡 who created a bet company to destroy the lives of Nigerian youths, worst of he is the brand ambassador.

Very stingy and vile human.

Look at how Sadio Mane is imparting the life of his people.

Shame to all Nigerian yeyebrites who only help people to chase clout

For someone like you with this sort of mentality, even if you were there live when this ugly spectacle happened, you'd still find an excuse to disbelieve your eyes.

wonder233:
Picture or video or any sort of evidence. I don't rush to conclusion based only on one side of a story.
See the commenters above me jumping to conclusion, that is why it is so easy to control you guys in this country. They will kill person and quickly put out a narrative that the person committed suicide or died ontop woman, and y'all will lap it up and start commenting your stale jokes and motivational quotes.
Never seen a more vacuous population.

Please where on Twitter (X) was this posted? Kindly share the handle or the link. Thank you.

Sunrisepebble:
From Twitter

Softmirror:
Lol you got it all wrong from my own perspective. I was comparing him to the likes of Messi who the played in the under 20 final. Mikel would have been one of the greatest players on Earth if had continued in his natural position and not as a defensive midfielder and under Alex Ferguson. Chelsea made him a lower grade of his true self.

If you are insistent on comparing performances from those who played and won individual playing medals at the U20 final and how they turned out in their senior playing careeers, maybe you should also compare Mikel and Taye Taiwo who won the 3rd best player in that same tournament. When you're done doing so and you've seen how arid Taiwo's club and international trophy cabinets are, then you'd learn to give Mikel the flowers that he richly deserves as one of Nigeria's most successful players ever.

creategist:
https://nairametrics.com/2025/01/09/breaking-court-freezes-225-million-in-assets-linked-to-general-hydrocarbons-and-nduka-obaigbena/


To be owed $225.8m by just one debtor o! Not to mention others, and still be standing is no mean feat! Other institutions would have collapsed teytey!

The story says the suit against Hydrocarbons and some of its listed directors is at the instance of FBN and FBNQuest. And I have to say that it's not a surprise. Femi Otedola is tit for tating Nduka Obaigbena. The moment I read the THISDAY fribt page story of yesterday screaming about calls by some unnamed directors of the bank for EGM that is supposedly meant to get rid of Otedola, I immediately knew that all gloves had come off.

It's interesting how revelations tumble out when elephants fight. Otedola, Hassan-Odukale, Otudeko on the one hand and now Otedola vs Obaigbena on the other. This promises a lot on paper but trust me it's not more than a storm in a tea cup. They'll all patch up things soon enough and nothing more will be heard of this or that, going forward.

How can a crook be the one to investigate and seize the criminal possessions of another criminal? Okoi Obono-Obla who today falsely parades himself as a lawyer and anti-corruption activist attended the University of Jos under false pretences using the WAEC results of another person and presenting it aa his own.

You cannot build something on nothing.

meobizy:
Oluchi and Kanu, same bus stop. They’ve spent years in the white man’s land yet English dey hard them speak. E sure me die say na Igbo only them dey speak when in private. The woman come marry Italian husband join — double wahala for dead body. At least her mixed race kids will speak Igbo fluently.

You're so ignorant. Oluchi was born, grew up and was discovered as a professional model in Lagos. She probably speaks more fluent Yoruba than Igbo. It is little minds like you who cannot process an issue because of your denseness that always resort to base primordial sentiments to disparate others.

You're so right.

The following link further buttresses your point:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/06/disregard-statements-from-isiguzoro-ohaneze-warns-public/

wetrlr:
3 things Nigerians must check next time they see a press release tagged "Ohaneze"

1. Okechukwu Isiguzoro is not a member of Ohaneze Ndigbo and has been asked by the group to stop parading himself as a member or representative of Ohaneze.

2. No one has actually seen this man called Okechukwu Isiguzoro

3. The fake personality mostly uses APC media to publish illegal press release, e-g PM News, thenation and sometimes Vanguard.

The next time he releases any press publication, kindly check and you will always confirm that the media he engages mostly are affiliated with Tinubu. Outright falsehood if you ask me

Dr. ABC Orjiakor no longer owns up to 20% of SEPLAT. All his wealth in the company has gone into settling bank loans that he initially refused to repay .

ariesbull:
sorry it's ABC Orkiako owns SEPLAT ...Arthur owns Oranto Douglas

Please, what thread is that?

emmanuelewumi:
There is a thread for that.


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