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Good move there.

However, it still beats my imagination how some of our politicians think. The idea to halt fuel subsidy was mulled over as far back as November 2022.
When the last administration forwarded the 2023 Budget to the National Assembly for passage, our legislators saw that no provision was made for subsidy beyond May 2023 but they never queried the executive what necessary measures were put in place to cushion the effect.
Governance is continuous, you think of the aftermath of your policies even when you are out of government.
At this stage, it's clear to everyone that fuel subsidy removal was long overdue, but how will the executive handle the situation with respect to the welfare of the masses?
God bless Nigeria.

Please tell me what I don't know.

If the son ticks all the criteria boxes, what is the crime in getting what he deserves?
Is he less a Nigerian because his father is highly placed?

As a Vice-Chancellor of a university, is it logical to deny one's son admission even when he did so well in JAMB UTME, SSCE and Post UTME in order to appear so good to the public?

Most influential and successful people use their resources to prepare their wards academically, professionally, socially, etc for the future.

Once you break the jinx of limitations, your descendants are positioned for greatness.
J F Kennedy's, George W Bush's, etc generations benefitted from their ancestors' breakthrough in the Western world or the saner climes as some people like to eulogize them

Ei! God Abeg.

This is heartbreaking.
Stray bullets terminating innocent young souls in the presence of their parents is a bitter pill to swallow.

Every day is full of evils, may God shield us from them.

hedonido:
How crazy is Nigeria's 'democracy'? Very very. Demonstration of crase as Fela put it is very apt.

At a time when long-suffering and beleaguered Nigerians are been pulverised by government induced poverty, a bunch of political clowns who have no business with the Lagos jamboree all assembled there, at taxpayer expense to revel in absolute inanity.

What business does Alex Otti have leaving his shambolic Abia State to journey all the way to Lagos to join in the 'homecoming' celebration of an illegitimate president? Why do all senators have to leave their critical business in Abuja to scramble to Lagos for what exactly? Why not leave Lagos people and their owambe kith and kin to celebrate their own heist harvest?

How does this all benefit the hundreds of millions of hapless, hopeless, subsidy-less, poverty-stricken masses?

Tragic circus.

Rest.

The whole nation is on Sallah break.

Political office holders are not exempted from the Sallah break globally. Public office holders have committed no crime by spending their break on courtesy visitations, alignment, re-alignment and interacting with their political class/bases.

Perhaps you have reservations for the presence of Gov. Alex Otti of Abia State who belongs to LP.

Nice thread.

Rush for catfish during festive seasons can also, among other things, be attributed to high rate of clubbing activities in hotels and guesthouses, carnivals, family reunion,etc where catfish pepper soup are prevalent.

Hei! God Abeg.

Where are the bullion van crew?

Those could be part of the redesigned new currency we were scampering for.
Couldn't forget how we paid #100,000 to collect old Naira notes of #70,000.

There's God o.

A cat with nine lives.
Woman, you have fought a good fight.

May God rest your soul and console your son.

Sebi Edo no be Lagos na🤣
Una don forget?

If you are good, you are good irrespective of where you pitch your tent.

APC did not enjoy the governor, PDP beckoned at him.
After paying the tax collectors to get PDP ticket, he succeeded in scattering their party. As it is, PDP is not proud of Mr. Governor again.

Medianna:
So sad..
So none of them can swim?
I don't get!

Not as you think.

In fact, a neighbour who lost fifteen people from the same family confirmed that the boat occupants were mostly children and their mothers.


The women could swim as fishing is their major occupation but their attempts to rescue the children made them lost their lives too.

Many women who were already safe at the riverbank were lured back into the river, seeing the children struggling for survival.

They were returning from a wedding ceremony and you have to see how these people pack themselves whenever they are gracing any occasion.

May God rest their souls.

For me, I am skeptical of any means of success that is too easy and too fast. I was wired that way.

The first attitude one has to cultivate to elude those ever increasing scammers is "greediness control."

In Anambra, the governor is doing great but in Lagos, it's seen as vendetta.
Hypocrisy will not kill us in this nation.

Almost all the superpowers have skeletons in their cupboards. These they cover with political hypocrisy.

FTC

Price please?

Simon Ekpa should make it one year sit-at-home so that Nigerians can feel the heat seriously.
He is doing well.

Those who sincerely assess Tinubu based on his antecedents won't be surprised about his administrative brilliance. Reno Omokri and his ilks are just waking up to the reality.
My own reservation is how he will be able to manouvre many resistance he will get from political cabal, corrupt contractors/business men whose necks are deep in shoddy deeds and career civil servants.

May God bless Nigeria.

You don't understand governance and politics.

Which scores are talking about?
Emefiele was about to be apprehended last year during Buhari administration before he escaped abroad. When he returned, he snappily sought a court injunction to prevent DSS. His trial preceded Tinubu's administration. His atrocities were carried by print and electronic media since last year.

AbdulRasheed Bawa of EFCC was equally alleged on many fronts ranging from not declaring some assets seized from corrupt elements to illegal ownership and sale of some confiscated assets. These allegations were widely publicised.

These and some others tainted Buhari's administration to some extent. Would one be happy to inherit such legacies if found in Tinubu's shoes?

Scores settling/ vendetta should not be underscored in those cases please.

Don't beam your searchlight on that one.

We are more concerned about Lagos politics and politicians.

Heartbreaking news.
A neighbour was sobbing for losing fifteen members of her family to the boat mishap.
Imagine!

There is one peculiar spirit behind political power aspiration.

Idris Wase was seen as a very loyal party man prior to this House of Representatives leadership election.

Do your permutations, study the situations, make sure the odds are in your favour before you strike, lest you come out wounded. Akinwumi Ambode is a typical example.

Surprised I am to see that some people wanted AbdulAzeez Yari in Akpabio's stead when the ruling party is striving for balance along religious divide. Haba!

A political leader should be able to govern the populace effectively and at the same time put his house (political party) in order.

I think Jagaban has an edge over Buhari here.
Another Saraki episode may never succeed under Tinubu.
Those who are aversed to the emergence of Akpabio as Senate President should consider something.

Some people have been alleging APC of "Islamization" agenda. The House of Representatives Speaker is definitely going to be a Muslim considering the available contestants. If Yari emerges again as the Senate President, then both NASS leaders will be Muslims and no sincere human being can blame APC for that. Besides, it implies that the Vice President, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senate President and Speaker House of Representatives will all be from the North.

Tuesday's inauguration is not far from us.
Till then, fingers crossed.

A synonym to "Married/Engaged man" is "Responsible Man"

All those responsibilities you highlighted plus others are what made the society term a Married/Engaged man as a Responsible Man
EOD.

It's not a bad move to have more private Universities as the public ones are already over stretched. One of the adverse effects of too many students seeking admission into public Universities with limited carrying capacities is painful change of students' aspirations.

Most students currently studying Microbiology, Biochemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Medical Laboratory Science, etc wanted to study Medicine and Surgery.
Most current students of Physics wanted Electrical/Electronics Engineering;
Chemistry students wanted Chemical Engineering;
Mathematics students wanted Computer Engineering
Many Civil Engineering aspirants end up studying Building Tech. etc.

Some average parents who can afford these private Universities now have an option instead of watching the public Universities kill their wards ambitions.

Good motive, wrong move.
Why not think of a better palliative measure.

You are indirectly rendering the workforce redundant. After sometime, if the effect of missing two out of five work days is not felt, downsizing of civil servant may be contemplated.

Peter Obi: I won the 2023 presidential election, albeit I didn't get up to "one percent" of casted votes in 17 Northern States, less than 25 Percent in Five SouthWestern States and didn't secure the highest number of votes.

Atiku Abubakar: I won the 2023 presidential election, though I didn't get up to 25 Percent in about 17 States and secure the highest number of votes.

Tribunal: The two of you (Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar) should go and sort out who came second in the election between yourselves and come back to challenge the winner of the election.

Interesting.

Teachers should now have a stake in his government. Unfortunately, he may work for teachers' interests once he's sworn in.
There seems to be a spirit attached to political power.

Football, a very funny game.

We all thought Flying Eagles' finishing as one of the "Best Losers" in the group stage would be a bad omen to their progress in the tournament, especially when they were drawn against the host nation, Argentina, who were beating their previous opponents blue and black.
If all the ball possessions could be converted to goals, Argentina could have easily won the match but it was a day for the Flying Eagles.

Congratulations to Nigerian lads.

Wish you all the best.

Shigishege2:
But this wike really do the obidiotts bad thing oo.
The heavy blow still dey pain them for face. Always crying up and down.
Infact they never recovered from the injury.

Rather,Wike dealt with Atiku and PDP, not Peter Obi.

Peter Obi who couldn't garner up to One Percent of votes in 17 Northern States had no chance of winning the election going by the constitutional requirement of 25% in 24 States.

PDP and Atiku felt Wike's effect more than anyone else.

Jagaban, may your tenure be favourable to us.

Your political sagacity has been proven.

In terms of political strategies, you stand tall above your peers. No Nigerian politician,dead or alive has come closer to your popularity as the kingmaker and the king himself. You don't jump ship when the political atmosphere is not in your favour.

Administratively, albeit you have paid your due as a governor, you have an uphill task of surpassing the enviable records of likes of Chief Obafemi Awolowo & others at the federal level. May God help you Sir.

[quote author=dat9jaguy post=121906062][/quote]The hypocrite failed to fulfill his promise of deactivating his account and retiring from Nairaland. He and his ilks talk as if they can determine people's destinies.

The fake Prince of Enugu shifted from "Tinubu must contest", "Tinubu would not get the Presidential Ticket" to "Tinubu could never win the Presidential Election."

Jagaban has shamed them all with successful endeavours.

Funny though, but there's a spiritual attachment to names. Give reasonable names to your children.

Eeh! God abeg!

The same Yoruba youths you are insulting now voted massively for Peter Obi in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, etc.

Or you think the almost 500,000 and 100,000 votes Peter Obi got in Lagos and Oyo States emanated from Igbo votes alone.

By now, reading these various insults and denigration, the same Yorubas who voted Peter Obi must have been regretting doing so.

Yorubas have a proverb: "The wise will surely awake the consciousness of the fool".
Peace.

LesbianBoy:
This thief called tinubu has succeeded in buying everything and everyone around him.

His ambition is worth the blood and suffering of Nigerians

And to think so many yoruba youths because of their hatred for igbos are supporting the madness tinubu and his APC thieves are doing to 100s of millions of Nigerians

Great news.

Only that the damage has been done already.
He could have prevented Arsenal from losing two precious points that day.

He might not be forgiven if Arsenal miss the Premier League trophy narrowly.