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These are the comfort providers but we look down on them and sometimes see them as the by-product of the society.

Kudos to Kogi State

Gov Pls do something

Why constructing the Road now? Why did'nt he construct it when he was the governor of the state?

politicians shaa

I know of 2 my neighbors who became millionaires by being suppliers to Julius Berger. and I know they are not the only ones. there are hundreds being empowered with jobs through numerous projects going on in the state.

Advocate500:
brother seriously no meaningful economic activities have been going on ever since the man became governor, those who try to establish one thing or the other have suffered one government action or the other, covid period was worse, while other states managed their own very well, this governor put the entire state on lockdown, many business could not survive it. Coming from covid pandemic, he started flyover construction to almost all business areas in portharcourt thereby shutting down business .


Just at the beginning of the year ,he shutdown all forms of delivery service, no form youths empowerment of any kind, this is a state were it's indigens survival are basically on government activities, building of flyovers all over portharcourt is the only known activity been carried out by this government.

Just as i said, it is easy to support him outside rivers state he put most of his community people on salaries, he is tribalistic, egocentric, have no regard for rule of law, he have succeeded in pocketing the entire state, that is why nobody criticise him.

Daybreak News
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#2023: BOLA TINUBU AND THE COST OF POLITICAL MISCALCULATION
By the deposed Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad Lamido
The godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2015 led the South-West into an alliance with the North to birth the All Progressive Alliance (APC). His decision, evidently, was informed by the expectation that the two geopolitical regions will share power, invariably to the exclusion of the Eastern bloc. And ultimately that he, or the South-West, will take power by the time the North completes two terms in 2023. But it has proved to be a miscalculation.
Certainly, power play is about conspiracies and alliances. Tinubu is well within his right to do what he thought would best advance his political interest and that of his region. However, in backing President Muhammadu Buhari, he cut his nose to spite his face.
It may not have seemed obvious to many, but once Buhari took power in 2015, Tinubu’s political career was in jeopardy.
To navigate the presidency without bruises, the best Tinubu could have done was to retire from active politics and assume the role of an elder statesman. He did not, he stayed on, wanting to be president and pushing hard to remain at the centre of political discourse. But power is jealous, and if there is any holder of the highest office in the land who would tolerate a co-president, it is not Buhari. Things are beginning to unravel, fast.
Without Tinubu, and by extension the South-West, Buhari could not have been president today. This is one fact that president’s men who now dominate the political space and brook no opposition will hate to admit, but it remains true, regardless.
But being essentially Buhari’s kingmaker, it was political naivety to decide to hang around in the expectation that he would share power. The old Machiavellian advice is that the prince must first destroy the one who made him king. Reason? Because he could decide tomorrow to make another king.
Writing in The Prince, the legendary Niccolo Machiavelli noted “…he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that predominancy has been brought about by astuteness or else by force, and both are distrusted by him who has been raised to power.”
Of course, it should have been obvious that, in helping to make Buhari president, Tinubu was jeopardizing his political career and plunging the South-West, and by extension Southern Nigeria, into political slavery whose only parallel in the country’s political history is the late Emeka Ojukwu leading the Igbo to war in 1967.
With respect to the Biafra War, blaming Ojukwu for embarking on it could earn one exile in the Igbo country. But if truth be told, the war was avoidable and could have been avoided if Ojukwu had not been too stiff to listen to the likes of Zik and other intellectuals who understood better, international politics and diplomacy. This is not to say, nonetheless, that Ojukwu was not sufficiently provoked by the killings of the Igbo in the North in the aftermath of the July 1966 revenge coup that threw up Yakubu Gowon as head of state, and indeed the actions – or lack of it – of the Gowon-led federal side. Regardless, it was still in his hands to accept to fight or toe the path of diplomacy which, given the circumstances, was the best option and the only way to win international support for his secession quest. In the event, he went to war and only succeeded in sacrificing more Igbo lives and weakening the Igbo politically.
The consequence of that weakening is that it provided fertile ground for the emergence of hegemonic Northern power. The imbalance so created is largely responsible for the crisis of Nigeria’s national identity. One mistake many Nigerians, particularly in the South, make is the assumption that the country is already formed and settled as a secular state. It’s not the case. There is the ever present quest to define the country right, of course, from the 1804 jihad.
Colonial rule put a stop to it, then in the post-war years, the Middle Belt soldiers who dominated the army acted as a wedge. Tinubu’s alliance with Buhari has served to reenact that quest. Buhari is now, apparently, out to define the country. The Jagaban’s political miscalculation could yet prove too costly.
The old generals who, I reckon, understand this are already raising the alarm. But of course, the horde of naive, ignorant online crowd of crumb eaters are blurring the resistance line.
As it concerns the 2023 presidency, it should be clear to anyone with a functioning brain that President Buhari’s North has no intention of relinquishing power to the South-West or any zone for that matter. What many may not have realised, however, is that for the next three decades at least, if ever, and should Nigeria remain one, power will not leave the North. But in projecting, one must always leave space for the law of unintended consequences and the God factor.
But given Buhari’s antecedents, was there any grounds for the South-West, particularly, to have given him benefit of the doubt in 2015? Absolutely none in my reckoning. However, it would appear that emotion rather than sound political calculation informed their support for Buhari in 2015. It was, perhaps, more to spite the East than love for Buhari. I had been amazed when, in the heat of the moment in 2015, before the election, the news editor of my then media platform branded a fellow reporter who didn’t buy into the Buhari presidential project a “bloody b*stard who is following the Igbo people to betray Yoruba by supporting Jonathan.”
In the lead up to the 2019 polls, I had on several occasions engaged my landlord – a backer of Buhari’s second term project who loves to discuss politics with me – on who between Atiku Abubakar and the President would make a better leader. My insistence was, of course, that Atiku would. After we exhausted all manner of issues he raised against the former vice president, he said finally that he would still back Buhari because Atiku was an “Omo Igbo project” and that “after Buhari, Yoruba will take power and after Yoruba, Hausa will take power again.” According to him, “we will be rotating it like that, Igbo people will never smell that place.” I had more of pity for his ignorance.
When in 2003, Buhari joined presidential race, he did so, apparently, to stop the then president, Olusegun Obasanjo. Not because Obasanjo had performed badly as president, having taken power with the return of democracy in 1999, but because Buhari and the section of the North he represented believed that power had to return to the region.
In settling for Obasanjo in 1998/99, the intention of the Northern military class was for him to do four years as compensation for MKO Abiola – the Yoruba had become uncontrollably agitated – and hand power back to the North. But not long after Obasanjo took power, it became clear that he was never going to leave it for anybody. This realisation led to agitations; criticisms of the Obasanjo government was swift in the north, the climax of which was the Sharia crisis of 2000. To take power, however, the anti-Obasanjo forces in the North knew that ultimately, it was about going to challenge him at the polls. Buhari emerged as the arrow head of that challenge. And through speeches and actions that appealed to regional sentiments, he built a cult following that saw him win elections convincingly in the North right from 2003.
Until 2014/15, Buhari was a regional hero who believed he could become president by winning elections in the North and never thought seriously about campaigning in the South. However, in 2014/15, the Tinubu led South-West gave him an undeserved national platform, and through heavy media propaganda, dressed him in the robe of a born again democrat. But old habits die hard.
Once in power, Buhari did not hesitate to take off the borrowed garb of a nationalist and democrat to put on his original robe of sectionalism. Right from his first set of appointments, he made clear his intentions. And as it stands, he has completely consolidated power in the hands of the North.
Buhari is an idealogue; usually idealogues are very resolute and persistent people. Say what you will, he is doubling down on nepotism. Shout ‘Fulanisation’ or ‘Islamisation’ all you will, he will only look for a hate speech bill or social media bill to shut you up rather than re-examine his ‘hate’ policies.
Possibly, when Buhari is done with the country – if he has his way – no Southerner will, on the basis of an election, ever become president except at the behest of the North. By suppressing votes in the South and inflating figures in the North, the administration is only trying to establish a pattern - a dangerous pattern which supporters of his party in the South are evidently too blind to see.
It is clear to the discerning where the president is headed. But the question is whether he would succeed. I had pointed out elsewhere that the project would fail, ultimately, because Nigerians are too many to be subjugated.
It would seem, from the actions of those controlling the levers of power, that there is an attempt to precipitate a national crisis with a view to using force to take over the country. But, of course, this is a country of 200 million people. The advantage those who have a “legitimate” right to bear arms are enjoying at the moment would be lost if there is a total breakdown of law and order. And the country would break into fractions controlled by warlords, such that it would take a miracle to have it again as one stable country for anyone to control.
By Sanusi Muhammad.

So by implication; it means, if you are not founding member of the party - you do not share the ideals of the party? if you also decamped to the party, although they celebrate your decamping to the party BUT they do not really trust you.

“We have nothing against him but we need someone who was part of the formation of our party from the beginning. The party has ideals and only those who shared those ideals must lead our party.

Hadi Abubakar Sirika is the current Minister for Aviation of the Federal Republic of Nigeria AND NOT Rotimi Amaechi

Nendan:
Wow
I give it to the unsung hero in the person of Rotimi Chibuike Amechi

I wish Nigeria look as clinical as this Image

IT IS GOOD TO BE GOOD AND BAD TO BE BAD

did you get it

President Buhari and APC have consistently lament PDP wasteful 16years and always cite high oil prices of early 2000 to mids 2000 as example.
Now is there turn to show what they can do with the current oil prices boom.

President Buhari and APC have consistently lament PDP wasteful 16years and always cite high oil prices of early 2000 to mids 2000 as example.
Now is there turn to show what they can do with the current oil prices boom.

The surge in oil prices comes with serious implications for both oil producing and non-producing countries alike.

The price of crude rose on Monday to $130 a barrel, the highest since 2008 as the United States and its European allies considered banning the importation of Russian oil in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Brent crude futures jumped $12.61, or 10.6 per cent, to $130.72 a barrel by 0449 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude climbed $10.41, or 9 per cent, to $126.09.

Monday’s intraday highs were near record levels seen for both contracts in July 2008 when Brent hit $147.50 a barrel and WTI touched $147.27.

The expectation is that oil exporting countries will rake in revenues and grow their foreign reserves, while the cost of goods will rise globally. But for a country like Nigeria, which sells crude and buys refined fuel, the effects will not be as straightforward.

The chief executive officer of the Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismarck Rewane, said Nigeria can reap from the development but said there were challenges too.

He compared the present situation to what obtained in 2008 under former President Umaru Yar’adua and Central Bank governor, Charles Soludo, when Nigeria’s external reserve was $60 billion, its excess crude account was $22 billion, and Naira traded at N158.00 a dollar.

Nigeria’s reserve currently is about $39 billion while the excess crude account plunged to just about $35 million. Naira is trading at N570 and N580 at the black market.

“In other words, with the same price of oil we are having a currency which is 300 per cent weaker than what it was in 2008,” Mr Rewane said in an interview on Channels TV business morning show on Monday . “We call it the paradox of oil. Oil price is up, the naira is down. Oil price down, naira down.”

“And all of us should be happier. But the reality is that all things being equal, the naira should appreciate, the reserves should be higher and all of us should be happier.

Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/515917-whats-in-store-for-nigerians-as-oil-prices-surge-experts-speak.html

Electoral Act Amendment was done in 2010 and 2014

emmykk:
The Senate president and the Attorney General of the Federation should be ashame of themselves.

They were with the electoral law for weeks but allow one of the section to be signed into law.



The PDP was in power for 16years yet they never thought it worthwhile to amend the Electoral law.
Then APC that Amended it few days ago and was widely praised want it re-amended!.

In just less than a week that the law was passed, APC want to re-amend what they just enacted
They want section 84(12) deleted

What Section 84(12) of the Electoral Act, 2022 Provide?

Section 84(12)
“No political appointee at any level shall be voting delegates or be voted for at the Convention or Congress of any political party for the purpose of the nomination of candidates for any election”.

PDP took them to court to stop the new planned amendment and the court favors PDP.

Now is it PDP that fail to touch the electoral law for 16 good years or the Attorney General of the Federation that should have read the law word for word with deep meaning we should blame for not seeing what they don't like?

Now that section is a trap waiting to devour politicians.

Restructuring Nigeria will surely produce great progress for the country.
Lagos achieved her celebrated IGR because she pushed to the brink at a time.
Restructure Nigeria and let all those state depending on others for survival be on their own, they will surely come out with survival plan that will make them great eventually

contractor work based on the actual amount that entered his hand and NOT the the amount quoted on papers
I blame the governor

donstan18:
I don’t think seven days is enough for a concrete to curate and obtain a certain degree of strength, that is, if it was commissioned immediately after casting.

From my observations looking at the structural status, I think the Contractor should be held responsible for this disaster.

I just don’t want to believe it’s Y12 rods I’m seeing there. Even the broken concretes are looking uncured. They should hold the Engineer responsible and not the Governor.

Really?

thebosstrevor1:
If there was no endsar, banditry, bokoharam, ipob and all those inciting violence, there won't have been increase in the price of foodstuffs.

Inflation is around 16% thanks to those "gentle" problems above

Yenefer:
security clearance

but the presidency had earlier said, Boko Haram had been defeated and cleared nah

I will advise you to be very careful with this kind of men, why because I know of two women who made the mistake of marrying such men and I am telling you they are regretting it now. one of the women married a man that want to do only a particular job and the job is not forth coming, the man has even pass the age of employment by far. The woman has done everything possible to make the man go into business and she will source for the capital, the man refused the offer. well wishers from the church and good neighbors had tried to introduce the man into business with full assurance of good start-up pack, the man refused all. All what the man want is for the wife to give him pocket money, feed him and their young children. in fact everything is on the woman. BE CAREFUL NOT TO FALL INTO THESAME PIT.