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Failure pro max. Vote wisely dem no dey gree hear

Is he still relevant in todays politics? Who asked him questions ?

The question is, how many of them in government use CNG?

Hanty wan cash out. I detest discussion of family matters on social media with passion. Shameless people

MiamiLord:
Believe skit makers at your own peril.

Where were you when Asake abandoned his father who almost died of HBP and focused only on his mum? Was that also a skit? Thanks to the social media criers. Whizkid's mother was more popular than his dad when she was alive as he always showed off what he did for her on sm. It's not as if these men neglected their children that made them less focused on them.

Women-like. That's why we men must always take care of ourselves, no matter what. Take a vacation, travel and relax your nerves. Enjoy your money. In case you don't have, my God will provide for you.

My fellow men, pls don't take my advice lightly

Na so bill gates send fototec and fujifilm enter house perpetually and digital photo came out. Now, graphics go soon join them

elder1002:
As what.,...hmmm election tins...

So the church is in support of her husband

Maybe he came to tell her to talk to her husband over killings of Christians in Nigeria

Na im money. I cant spend that much ntemi oo Instead, I'll pay for a seat with a wider legroom, then enjoy the Emirates freebies in DXB. Anyone who had had a US/Canada trip experience with long layovers in the past would understand better. You'll be lodged in one of their 3-star hotels inside DXB, free visa entry into DXB and enough buffet at the hotel with asun. Ordinarily, one would have paid a lot of money for the visa alone in Nigeria with lots of bureaucracy. It's another smart way to cheat the emirates cos you'll be entitled to enter the DXB, see your friends if you have one, go and buy gold or whatever you want to buy and enjoy your stay while the long layover lasts.

The Chinese rice and cuisines with orisirisi no be here. Their chicken rice is sooo nice. By the time the long layover ends, you'd leave behind, a memorable experience and pick a fresh one inside their A380 plane of 650 plus capacity to yankee. The roof is designed with artificial stars like an earthly paradise.

All the above is worth more ths 12k usd for me.

HacheNoire:
Wale has always and will forever be a competent hands in any government, party or administration!

He never got to that position about favoritism, party demands, or connections. He was made for the job!

A competent and disciplined expert! He made no mistakes or lost trust with the President.

His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) only required SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT in crushing the USD.

On behalf of my Honorable self, and patriotic Nairalanders, we would like to Wish Wale Edun the very best in his future obligation!

We are proud and happy about where you got us too and won’t forget your sacrifices.

...and he was removed? The way you guys hype and defend failure is out of this world.. His CV wasn't so matching or impressive, to warrant that role. I knew it was a we-we thing but the role is more sensitive that that, unfortunately.

If he had his way, ill health or not, he'd have managed to complete his tenure. It was good he was removed, citing fake health issue. No civil servants or appointees had so willingly resigned in the Nigerian political history. Take note of that

Reference:
Nigerians should own the process and own the outcomes. Learn to build institutions that are the guarantors of continuity.

Just as financial traders have tools such as 'stop loss' and 'take profit', the citizens too should have independent tools to limit the damage of bad leadership while securing the continuity of good leadership.

A lot of folks don't like the Trump government and consider his term a huge waste. But whatever damage they perceive is on a clock and they have a chance in near time to reverse it. Because of institutions that work.

You can't say it any better. Unfortunately, our people are blinded by sentiments. Even if they're dying of starvation, they don't seem to care, so long as awa man is in power. Maybe thst mentality will bring a new lease of life to them.

Yesterday, we saw a heavily flooded completed portion of the highly-publicised coastal road. How can you do such a road without a proper drainage system in place and at the swampy areas that needed it the most? Because not all the portions would require such. There would be some dry portions as well. I trust tinubu in an opposition, he'd have sponsored it for publication on all print and electronic media. But because he's awa man, my people are keeping quiet.

Oyo people, if you permit this failure to rubbish seyi Makinde's great work, na una sabi oo. In the end, he'll say you should forgive him.

stuffs2002:
I am a northerner born and raised in the north and I had 100% of my education from primary school to masters degree in the north and yet a Lagos wannabe thinks he can tell me about the north.

I specifically refrained myself from using Jos but kept on talking about Plateau but you failed to see the difference. You know nothing about what you are talking about if you don't even know the difference between Plateau and Jos.

I don't know the difference between Jos and plateau? its Ok then, im still waiting for your source of 250yrs old crisis on the plateau. Failure to provide this shows you're ignorant of the figure you quoted and a liar. It's needless to tell you where in the north i also schooled. Its immaterial in this context. I'm waiting

Nwaikpe:
Nigerian politicians first believe that the citizens they serve, are fools.

Whereas, they're the most foolish beings ever lived

This Oniro agbaaya again? Smh.

A Nigerian-born product designer working across U.S. and global institutions has helped unlock nearly $2 billion in student loan savings by reworking how borrowers access existing programmes, pointing to a broader shift in design from interface aesthetics to core financial infrastructure
In an interview with Business Insider Africa, Lanre Fadire said his work centres on simplifying complex systems rather than building new products, enabling users to tap into benefits that already exist but are often obscured by bureaucracy
His most measurable impact has come through his work at Summer PBC, a platform designed to help borrowers navigate the U.S. student loan system.
Fadire said the scale of the problem is often underestimated, pointing to his work at Morressier, which helped the platform earn a finalist spot for the ALPSP Innovation Award in 2024.
“The number's actually around to $1.9 billion now, but to understand what that means, you need context on the student loan landscape in the U.S. There’s roughly $1.8 trillion in outstanding student loan debt across 43 million borrowers. It’s the second-largest category of consumer debt after mortgages,” he said.
That burden reflects the structural weight of student debt in the U.S. economy. Data from the Federal Reserve shows it has become one of the largest categories of household liabilities, with repayment outcomes often shaped by programme selection and administrative complexity.

The system itself is highly fragmented, combining federal and private loans, multiple repayment plans, and overlapping forgiveness programmes administered across different servicers.

As a result, access to relief is often less about eligibility and more about navigation.

“There are atleast 4 different Income-Driven Repayment plans, over 140 forgiveness programs, constant policy changes, and eligibility rules that shift based on your employer, income, and loan type,” Fadire said. “Most people have no idea what they qualify for.”

In practice, that complexity has limited uptake of relief programmes, with many borrowers missing out on benefits due to gaps in awareness and enrollment.
“That’s where Summer comes in,” he said. “Our job is to make sure users are aware of every opportunity and pathway available to them, while ensuring that complexity and bureaucracy don’t show up in the platform.”

His work focused on simplifying how users interact with key programmes such as Income-Driven Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness, while expanding access to employer-backed benefits.

“The platform already had a strong foundation for the two largest programs when I joined,” he said. “Income-Driven Repayment helps people pay based on what they can actually afford, while Public Service Loan Forgiveness maps out the optimal strategy over 10 years.”

He said the focus was on reducing friction across the user journey.

“My work involved refining flows, improving clarity where users got stuck, and building design systems so the team could ship faster without design becoming a bottleneck.”

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A Nigerian-born product designer working across U.S. and global institutions has helped unlock nearly $2 billion in student loan savings by reworking how borrowers access existing programmes, pointing to a broader shift in design from interface aesthetics to core financial infrastructure.

Meet Lanre Fadire, the billion-dollar designer behind over $1.5bn in savings for US borrowers
Meet Lanre Fadire, the billion-dollar designer behind over $1.5bn in savings for US borrowers
In an interview with Business Insider Africa, Lanre Fadire said his work centres on simplifying complex systems rather than building new products, enabling users to tap into benefits that already exist but are often obscured by bureaucracy.

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His most measurable impact has come through his work at Summer PBC, a platform designed to help borrowers navigate the U.S. student loan system.

Fadire said the scale of the problem is often underestimated, pointing to his work at Morressier, which helped the platform earn a finalist spot for the ALPSP Innovation Award in 2024.

“The number's actually around to $1.9 billion now, but to understand what that means, you need context on the student loan landscape in the U.S. There’s roughly $1.8 trillion in outstanding student loan debt across 43 million borrowers. It’s the second-largest category of consumer debt after mortgages,” he said.

ADVERTISEMENT

That burden reflects the structural weight of student debt in the U.S. economy. Data from the Federal Reserve shows it has become one of the largest categories of household liabilities, with repayment outcomes often shaped by programme selection and administrative complexity.

The system itself is highly fragmented, combining federal and private loans, multiple repayment plans, and overlapping forgiveness programmes administered across different servicers.

As a result, access to relief is often less about eligibility and more about navigation.

“There are atleast 4 different Income-Driven Repayment plans, over 140 forgiveness programs, constant policy changes, and eligibility rules that shift based on your employer, income, and loan type,” Fadire said. “Most people have no idea what they qualify for.”

In practice, that complexity has limited uptake of relief programmes, with many borrowers missing out on benefits due to gaps in awareness and enrollment.

ADVERTISEMENT

“That’s where Summer comes in,” he said. “Our job is to make sure users are aware of every opportunity and pathway available to them, while ensuring that complexity and bureaucracy don’t show up in the platform.”

His work focused on simplifying how users interact with key programmes such as Income-Driven Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness, while expanding access to employer-backed benefits.

“The platform already had a strong foundation for the two largest programs when I joined,” he said. “Income-Driven Repayment helps people pay based on what they can actually afford, while Public Service Loan Forgiveness maps out the optimal strategy over 10 years.”

He said the focus was on reducing friction across the user journey.

“My work involved refining flows, improving clarity where users got stuck, and building design systems so the team could ship faster without design becoming a bottleneck.”

ADVERTISEMENT

He also introduced tools to broaden how borrowers manage debt beyond traditional repayment pathways.

“I also designed new tools that tackle debt from different angles. The Employer Loan Contribution feature helps users access benefits where employers pay down their loans, while Tuition Assistance connects people to programmes that cover education costs upfront. These aren’t as high-dollar as IDR or PSLF, but they add up.”

Taken together, the changes translated into measurable outcomes by improving access to existing systems rather than creating new ones.

“That $2 billion in savings represents people who didn’t have to navigate the bureaucracy alone,” he said. “It’s not that design created those savings. The policies and programs created that potential. Design made it possible for people to actually access it.”
That approach traces back to his early career in Nigeria, where he worked across sectors, moving between enterprise systems, consumer applications and public platforms.

“It started at SBSC, a software consulting agency in Nigeria. We’d switch between project contexts constantly,” he said. “You’d be designing a CRM system for a bank one week, then a consumer app the next.”

The experience highlighted a consistent pattern: system performance, not visual appeal, determined success.

“Most clients would ask ‘ensure it looks good, or make it pop’ first,” he said. “But that wasn’t what made projects succeed or fail. The successful ones were the ones users could move through with minimal bottlenecks.”

Poorly designed systems, he added, often disrupted operations regardless of how polished they appeared.

“A confusing procurement system meant operations stopped. A CRM with unclear workflows meant sales teams went back to spreadsheets,” he said.

“That’s when I started thinking about design as infrastructure. Good infrastructure is invisible. People remember when things don’t work.”

Designing for real-world users
That perspective informed his work at Summer PBC, where he redesigned onboarding systems for a large municipal workforce, exposing gaps in how digital platforms serve non-traditional users.

“Many municipal employees don’t have a work email. They’re eligible for benefits, but traditional systems assume otherwise,” he said.
To address this, his team introduced alternative verification pathways.

“We built multiple verification pathways. Email for those who have it, alternatives for those who don’t. We needed systems that didn’t lock them out,” he said.

“What was broken was assuming one method works for everyone. What we fixed was designing for the actual workforce.”

AI and the growing risk to research integrity
Beyond finance, Fadire has also worked on research integrity tools at Morressier, where artificial intelligence is reshaping how academic content is produced and verified.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/leaders/meet-lanre-fadire-the-billion-dollar-designer-behind-over-dollar15bn-in-savings-for/5p09z9y

I'm not surprised. Oruko omo, oun lonro omo . Coastal highway must definitely be flooded if not, how will it reflect its name . Nigerians will never forget the APC in a hurry

stuffs2002:
Yes tourists used to visits and we had white people who lived in the Plateau because the issues had not risen to this level but it has always been there until people like you stoked up the fires and made the issues 10 times greater than before

I'm still waiting for proofs oo. Dad was a prof of medicine and served at juth for decades before his retirement 15yrs ago. He was raised in Jos north but was born in Lagos, his dad was from akoko. I was always going there though I stayed with mum. You cannot tell the plateau story more than those who lived virtually all their lives there. He will soon clock 80yrs.

Just send me a proof of your 250yrs of jihadist communal or sectarian killings. Anything to show. Otherwise 🤫

NaijaNaWaa:
He don play enter Abike Dabiri hand.

stuffs2002:
See who is talking.
The crisis in the Plateau is more than 250 years old and even your Jonathan had not been born at that time

You don't know what you're talking about. Same plateau tourists used to visit abi another one? Show proof, I dare you. You could be one of the brainwashed fellows until I see your proof. Im waiting

Like I said, when the time is ripe, everyone will get sense and shun sentiments . Otogee in the mud. Saraki would be giggling right now. They say you should send your oloore away and you gullibly did that. Where's he today that boko haram are sending you away from your towns and villages, kidnapping and killing others?
Has he come to your rescue yet? Has he even visited?He visited jos and remained in the airport,left a few minutes later. He's coming back again when he needs your votes. I think Nigeria deserves what she got.

He has the materials. Nothing must be wasted. God please spare this man's life for us

stuffs2002:
The Christians terrorists murdered the Muslims first. What happened was a reprisal attack to avenge the death of the Muslims brutally murdered by the Christians terrorists in the Plateau.


Try and condemn all killings irrespective of the religion.

I'd have copied and pasted the happenings from Jonathan era to you to read but no need. Google it yourself. Your narrative isnt correct but I can understand where you stand. Maybe tomorrow,.you'd also wake up like this and say Christians first killed muslims in benue and in our land in kwara state. Weldone.

I keep saying this...by the time apc leaves office, most of those who served under them would run into exile. This is the worst political party and government in history

stuffs2002:
Peter Obi will never be president of Nigeria.

The crisis in the Plateau is more than 250 years old and yet you found a way to politicise it and involve the APC

Where did you get that information of 250yrs old narrative from? Stop spewing nonsense. Plateau used to be one of the safest places in Nigeria. Are you aware westerners once lived there for over a century? Where are they today? Would this have happened if your narrative was true?

stuffs2002:
Why are you calling them jihadists?
Did they say they were on a jihad mission?

Those were basically criminals who kills anyone irrespective of religion

But they are Muslims shouting alahu akbar. Are you saying all Muslims are now criminals? I read a new narrative today.

Redoil:
but tinubu wife told every body that there is nothing like that

Is that a human being? Abeg

achymmania:
Hmmmm. Dangote no dey tell us truth.

It's the APC who lies for free. I think they bowed to pressure from within and without. Go and check dangote's import from January to March as reported by the international news media. You cannot get such truth within Nigeria, then you'd know your submission isn't true. What would dangote benefit from lying ? He's gone past that stage.

Its shameful that a country that has enough crude couldn't show mercy on the masses by giving a local refinery enough crude, but allows the approved marketers to bring in petrol to sabotage dangote who imports crude. Thats why petrol has been expensive because dangote has always been the one cutting pump price ahead of the importing marketers. Since crude supply to him was massively cut, dangote had been importing. I've never seen such a wicked government in my life. Even the Iran going through war sells petrol cheaper than us to their citizens. Our leaders are fond of thriving in chaos to punish the masses.

In our Lagos, we dont apply sentiments into politics. In my opinion, Hamzat should just sit down for now and allow the workaholic Ambode to finish his term. We've really missed him. We knew how he was removed and I hope they've learned their lesson. Hamzat is finishing 8 years as deputy governor so, he needs to rest. In my opinion, he shouldn't even seek governorship position again.

Should they make a mistake on candidacy, Uncle Doherty will be given an easy win because the aboriginal lagosians, same people who gave tinubu the political space are the ones drumming support for him and hamzat is a feather weight. He's not from Lagos. Only Ambode can challenge Doherty as it stands, giving his amazing performance. Enough said.

Any democracy that threatens opposition is autocracy. It means they're enemies of the masses

Women are donating their eggs, same way men are donating their sperm .Those indulging in this nonsensical act should know this, you cant eat your cake and have it. Gos isn't sleeping

Tetrahedron:
If it’s that.
People have been sneezing nonstop here in portharcourt since 2weeks now

You're right. I left phc last Thursday