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tinsel:
Some people will come here and create a stupid thread because they want to attack Tinubu.
Op, please go read the CV of this guy.

WizardOfNG:
Bro, you are all over the place. Your writing style is terrible. Highly personalised toxicity and discussion of several disjointed issues and individuals at the same time.

Clearly obvious you assume others understand you. Yet how does that make sense when you mention a "polotixal rascal and thug" you do not name and an LGA chairman you don't identify etc.

Finally, what on earth is that below?



What the hell are you talking about? Senate clearance? 50 thugs to take over? Can't you try to be calm and write coherently without assuming others are your clones who know what is in your head?

helinues:
Power sector is improving

Aviation sector upgraded

Minister of work busy with projects

Custom and immigration improved

Education, Loans for the students , loan for the staff. Technical/Vocational education is now 100% free in Nigeria

Stock market, for a year plus now, investors have been smiling to the bank.

Our exports is now more than import according to the last released statistics

Agriculture, 2,000 tractors plus 8,009 farming equipments commissioned recently. N1bn grant initiative or so is on the way for the farmers

Those are just few of the sectors which I can boldly write about

Please on whose records are they going to add those achievements. And don't forget Wike in FCT oo

helinues:
Power sector is improving
Aviation sector upgraded
Minister of work busy with projects
Custom and immigration improved
Education, Loans for the students , loan for the staff
Agriculture, 2,000 tractors plus 8,009 farming equipments commissioned recently. N1bn grant initiative or so is on the way for the farmers

Those are just few of the sectors which I can boldly write about

Please on whose records are they going to add those achievements. And don't forget Wike in FCT oo

asolocoaso:
Tinubu probably has no idea who he is.....and instead of sending the DSS, to go undercover and find out what his person and character is....he didn't do his due diligence.

Now he has appointed a known thug.....one which everyone knows he is a thug.
Only the president doesn't know.

Adblg0610:
It’s not a forceful takeover, part of the statement announced by Bayo Onanuga stated as follows: “To prevent a leadership vacuum at the commission, the President directed Ramat to assume office in an acting capacity pending Senate screening, in line with legal provisions.“ Garba Ramat has acted in full compliance with the instructions contained in the statement of appointment, in order to prevent a vacuum.

malali:
Everybody know he doesn't have any know how on the position.
Tinubu just appoints to stakeholders regardless of their merits.
The fact that he went there with 50 thugs tells you, the kind of person that was appointed.
Most likely a plane stopper too

malali:
Garba Ramat on Friday illegally assumed office as the Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), despite lacking Senate confirmation and in defiance of a presidential directive to wait.

Sources within the commission told BusinessDay that Ramat arrived at the NERC headquarters accompanied by no fewer than 50 political backers and armed personnel and forcibly took over operations, dislodging existing Commissioners.

This illegal take over comes just one day after a statehouse press statement signed by Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, clearly stated that all nominations, including Ramat’s, were “subject to Senate confirmation” and that the current acting chairman would remain in position pending Senate approval.

The Nigerian Senate is currently in recess and not scheduled to reconvene until September 23, casting doubt over the legitimacy of Ramat’s self-imposed takeover.

Ramat, a former chairman of Ungogo local government area (LGA) in Kano state from 2021 to 2024, was nominated by President Bola Tinubu to replace the current NERC chairman. But according to insiders, his controversial attempt to bypass the constitutional process has set off alarm bells across Nigeria’s power sector.

“This is not just illegal—it’s dangerous,” said a senior executive in the sector, who requested anonymity. “We have billions invested in this sector. Such political recklessness erodes investor confidence. NERC is a regulator, not a battleground.”

According to legal experts, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission Act provides clear procedures for the appointment and removal of commissioners and the chairman.

“A mere nomination does not equal appointment,” said one constitutional lawyer. “There is a tenure system at NERC, and any removal must follow due process. What happened today is a breach of that law.”

Experts in the sector are monitoring the unfolding dramatic takeover and labeling it as unconstitutional and advised that the proper process be followed.
Behind the scenes, political intrigue appears to be driving Ramat’s appointment which has stirred considerable concern among investors in the power sector who doubt the competence of the new appointees.

BusinessDay gathered that his actions are being backed by a powerful political figure that loiters around the Presidency and has the President’s ear, but with little
Knowledge of the industry. The figure is said to be instrumental in Ramat’s nomination and encouraging the power grab.

“He is throwing his weight around and trying to control regulatory appointments,” said a source familiar with the power struggle. “But this one may have gone too far.”

Stakeholders across the sector, including investors across the value chain, international investors, and consumer advocacy groups, have begun voicing concerns about what they describe as “a dangerous politicisation of the power regulatory framework.”

“It’s troubling,” said an executive in the sector. “This is not how a regulator should be run, and it sets a terrible precedent for governance and investment in Nigeria.”

As of press time, the Presidency had not issued a statement addressing the forceful takeover.

Source: https://businessday.ng/news/article/garba-ramat-ignores-presidential-directive-forcefully-assumes-office-as-nercs-chairman/

PulaPower:
Atiku/Obi can not even defeat Tinubu, don’t dull..

All the odds are in favour of Tinubu, if you understand politics..

Gabrielshow24:
18,19?😂My guy, for this present generation. The chances are slim but luck fit shine for your eye.

Also, this your quest is an herculean task— Plenty Water don pass under bridge😔, water don even carry bridge go😁. Omo, if you no fit settle with the ones wey dey available, you go wait tire😅.

okomile:
Green horn starts from somewhere

Let's see performance in months to come ooooooo

Oluwabash:
Powering Up the NERC with Ramat: A Fresh Mind for an Old Problem

Nigeria’s electricity regulator is about to get a jolt of fresh energy. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Abdullahi Garba Ramat, 39, to lead the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) in an acting capacity, pending Senate confirmation. It is an unusually young face for one of the country’s most technically complex and politically charged jobs—and that is precisely the point.

For decades, NERC has presided over a sector plagued by under-investment, chronic outages, tariff disputes and creaking infrastructure. The task before Mr Ramat is daunting: to regulate an industry where the gap between installed capacity and actual delivery yawns wide, where private operators and state-owned assets must be prodded toward efficiency, and where consumers’ patience is as depleted as the national grid.

Mr. Ramat brings an unusually broad toolkit to this herculean assignment. An electrical engineer by training, with a master’s in electronics and telecommunications and a doctorate in strategic management, he marries technical mastery with managerial vision. His résumé spans academia, local government, private enterprise and state-level power administration. As head of the Kano State Metropolitan Agency he cut energy costs through retrofitting projects; as chairman of Ungogo Local Government he digitised governance at the local levels, boosted revenue and built new operational structures from scratch.

This versatility matters. In an age when the power sector must embrace smart grids, renewable integration and digital oversight, a regulator who speaks the languages of engineering, data analytics and public policy is rare.

Mr. Ramat’s training in power transmission at Gonzaga University and his certifications from Microsoft and Harvard show a comfort with both the physical and the digital backbones of modern electricity systems. His career suggests he can navigate the politics of reform without losing sight of technical imperatives.

A younger regulator may also bring a different tempo. At 39, Mr Ramat belongs to a generation impatient with incrementalism, more open to experimenting with new business models, and attuned to the expectations of a digitally connected public. That mindset could help in tackling the twin challenges of attracting investment and holding operators to account—tasks in which regulatory credibility is as vital as technical expertise.

Sceptics will note that even the most qualified individual cannot conjure megawatts from thin air; the structural problems of Nigeria’s electricity market run deep. Yet leadership matters, especially when it is willing to combine discipline with innovation. If Mr Ramat can translate his record of reform into the national arena, NERC might begin to close the gap between promise and performance. The country’s power sector has waited too long for a surge in competence. With a fresh mind at the helm, it may finally be time to switch on.

Olufemi Oreoluwa, is a journalist and writes from Lagos.

Angelfrost:
Nah... Let's not muddle facts please.

The death of the entire Middle class was the classic doing of Muhammadu Buhari's clueless 8 years in office.


Tinubu's role in enabling that travesty of leadership can't be denied tho.

Ofunaofu:
Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo, has suggested that Christians won’t support the presidential ticket having former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi come 2027.


Keyamo claimed that Nigerian pastors won’t come out to campaign for an 80-year-old Muslim president.

The Minister stated this while fielding questions on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics.


He said: “I want to do small expo, but it’s an expo that will not help them either way. Do you know what they are working on is that they want to bring Peter Obi and Atiku together.

“Once you make Obi the deputy to Atiku, the Christian demography will pull out of that 6 million votes Obi won in 2023.

“Don’t forget that the President also has a pastor who is a wife. So that Christian demographic we will snatch some of them and increase our votes.


“Don’t forget too that South-East demography that supported him, once it’s Atiku, they will pull out. They will not support him.

“The pastors cannot come out campaigning for an 80-year-old Muslim president. They will not do that. So they will lose that demography.”


https://dailypost.ng/2025/08/04/atiku-obi-ticket-pastors-wont-campaign-for-80-year-old-muslim-president-in-2027-keyamo/

ogododo:
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, has issued a stern warning to Rauf Aregbesola, Interim National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), over his recent political activities ahead of the 2027 general elections.
In a fiery tweet, Onanuga accused the former Interior Minister of betrayal, reminding him that Tinubu was responsible for his rise from a “struggling party man” to commissioner in Lagos and later governor of Osun State.

Onanuga described Aregbesola’s current alliance with opposition forces as “perfidy”, insisting that anyone who turns against the president at this critical time would face consequences.




This is the same Aregbesola that Asiwaju Tinubu met as a struggling party man in 1999 and made a commissioner and later governor of Osun State. Now that Tinubu is president, should a man like Aregbesola be in a gang-up against his benefactor? Aregbesola is a religious man. He Show more

He said no politician could “repay good with evil and get away with it,” warning that Tinubu’s camp would not fold its arms while former loyalists attempted to undermine the political structure that brought them to prominence.



Aregbesola, once a key ally and political protégé of Tinubu, recently collapsed his Omoluabi Progressives bloc into the ADC, where he now serves as Interim National Secretary — a move widely interpreted as positioning himself against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the build-up to 2027.

His defection has unsettled Tinubu loyalists, who view it as an act of disloyalty from a man once considered part of the president’s inner circle.



The clash between the two political heavyweights underscores the growing tension within the APC family, as realignments and defections intensify across Nigeria’s political landscape.

While Aregbesola argues that his decision to join the ADC is in pursuit of a stronger democratic alternative, Tinubu’s allies insist that betrayal will not be tolerated, signalling that the battle for 2027 may be as much about loyalty as it is about party lines.

https://parallelfactsnews.com/onanuga-threatens-adc-secretary-aregbesola/

Adebaba1:
Lol
If you are speaking with chairman on a steady in the new role, just be ready for anything

Typing:
You mean Yoruba are playing good politics as they kept appointing only Yoruba people into all the federal positions?

IamANigerianMan:
Oga we are govern by the constitution not by playing politics.... Stupid thing, let them you don't gree

MadPolitician:
Future harvest kee you dia.. Trying to make it look like we all have a level playing ground?
Yoruba aligned with the North and neo colonial Britain to hyjack political leadership in Nigeria through a vicious war. That's what happened. Political ostracisation of the igbos is an entrenched ideology within the federal level in Nigeria. Igbo marginalization has absolutely nothing to do with how politically smart igbos are since the inception of democratic rule. It has everything to do with neo colonial proxies in Nigeria, utilising state power to corner the resources and the economy of the whole country as a war booty.
Period!
Stop with the obfuscation of facts

MadPolitician:
Were Yorubas not appointed under Jonathan?
Was there any strategic attempt to expunge the Yorubas from the federal government during the Jonathans regime, simply because they didn't vote for him enmasse?
What are you blabbing about?

MadPolitician:
What has that got to do with the abuse of power and disregard of the constitution!? What do you by the term "emotional"? Igbos are emotional unless the support Tinubu?
There is something called the "federal character" in the constitution. It was not put there by the igbos. It was inserted inside the constitution by you guys.
What has playing "smart politics" (read tribal politics) got to do with following constitutional stipulations?

To start with, it is totally diversionary to relentlessly make these puerile accusations about igbos "not playing smart politics ". Ekwueme supported Shagari, the same Ekwueme and the whole south-east supported Obasanjo and the PDP. There were significant igbo support for APC with the likes of Okorocha, Ognonnaya Onu and Ngige bringing the needed regional presence. At the moment, two out of 5 igbo states are APC! So those are not enough to atleast make Tinubu obey the laws at it regards the federal character in appointments and government distribution of amenities?

Tribalism is Tribalism.
Let's call a spade a spade.
And Tribalism in this dangerous administration will not end unless it is confronted.

MadPolitician:
If igbo leaders do not quickly brace up and confront this regime, igbo as an ethnic group in Nigeria might be in a dire danger of political and economic extinction by the end of this regime. This is just 2 years in and a total and relentless obliteration of the igbo has been the most consistent cardinal agenda of Tinubu and his minions... It is no more a laughing matter. He is on a mission and folks have to find ways to confront and stop him, together with the igbos and minority characters supporting him.

Factcheck0001:
what was d exchange rate under Buhari n what is d exchange rate now?

So someone borrowed 500 dollars with an exchange rate of 400 = 200k

Another borrowed 250 dollars with an exchange rate of 1600 = 400k

But u lots believed the second person have borrowed more?

No problems if u can believe Buhari was cloned without knowing the meaning of cloning then I am not surprised u believed this, after all agenda must agend

So when d Naira was floated n it reflected the genuine price, do u expect it to come down?

Benjamin077:
How do I explain to the younger generation that in the year 2005, the cost of transportation from Ajangbadi to Okokomaiko was just N10 (ten naira)?


How do I explain that in 2006, the cost of IELTS exam was just N15,000?


How do I explain that in 2006 while still living with my grandma, my pocket money was just N50, and that amount could cover transportation to and back from work and lunch.




How do I explain that in 2013, I bought a brand new Laserjet printer, model Laserjet P2035 for N31,000?





How do I explain this to this generation that in 2014, that I bought a Tiger 2.5KVA generator for N32,000





How do I explain that in November 2014, I bought a 50-Kg bag of imported rice hits N10,000 at the Mile 12 market in Lagos.



Hw do I explain that the exchange rate for dollar to naira in 2015 was $1 = N197

How do I explain that a litre of fuel was sold for N65 in 20111, and was increased to N87 in January 2012.

Whenever I remember how inflation has skyrocketed and crippled the Nigeria economy, rendering the value of money useless. I weep for this country.

How our leaders both past and present had done nothing about the adverse of inflation and devaluation of the naira. it saddens my heart.

What do you remember in the past that was so cheap that you can afford, that is now too expensive that you can no longer afford?
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