₦airaland Forum

IVORY2009:
May his soul rest in peace, Nigeria as a country does not know how to care for their own, this man must have been down years ago, but no adequate care for him.

TimeMachine3:
Funke Akindele is greater than all ibo asaba nollywood film nonsense.

God1000:
Nice one, but no Nigerian female referee among them

Melezenawii:
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has received the fifth crude oil shipment of one million barrels of Bonny Light supplied by the NNPCL.

This latest development is a significant step for the refinery, which is already preparing to welcome the 6th one million crude oil cargo by next week as it hopes to begin operations.

Once the 6 million barrels are fully delivered, it will facilitate the initial run of the refinery as well as kick-start the production of diesel, aviation fuel, and LPG before subsequently progressing to the production of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS).

https://twitter.com/Imranmuhdz/status/1743285138874642658

DeZoro:
Why should it be foreigners that will construct road for us. You all the civil engineers we have are stup'id? Oh Nigeria !

Vivianat:
After the majority Igbo, the Yoruba people are another significant ethnic group found present in Enugu; other groups include the Hausa, Kanuri, Ijaw, and Fulani people... Time for a Yoruba governor in Enugu

LegendHero:
If it is not their money, how is it your money?

If Nigerian money is "OUR" money, and the politicians are "Nigerians" too. Don't you think the money is their money too?

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/nnpc-denies-dispute-with-marketers-says-subsidy-entirely-removed/amp

adenigga:
Social media influencer, Reno Omokri, has urged President Bola Tinubu to ban sports betting apps in the country.

According to Omokri, a ban on sports betting apps could even help improve the value of the Naira.

Omokri, who quoted the National Lottery Trust Fund. lamented that “$1 billion is spent on gambling daily in Nigeria.”

The media influencer expressed his views in a series of tweets shared via his X profile on Wednesday.

His tweet read, “President Tinubu can immediately improve the economic conditions of most Nigerians and make the Naira grow by issuing an Executive Order authorising the Nigerian Communications Commission to ban sports betting apps from the App Store of any GSM Internet Service Provider in Nigeria and revoking the licenses of any physical sports betting operators in Nigeria. It makes better sense than Buhari’s draconian #TwitterBan.”

The former Special Assistant to erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan stated that an average Nigerian spends “$15 daily on sports betting and other types of gambling.”

Omokri noted that despite the high rate of gambling in the country, the “vast majority of that amount” is leaving the shores of the country into foreign nations, compared to the nation’s externally generated revenue.

“This is scary. How much is our GDP that we are pissing it away like that? More money is leaving Nigeria through gambling than is coming in,” he wrote.

Omokri cautioned., “The Naira can never sustain its rally under such circumstances.”

The tweet stated further, “There is such an epidemic of gambling in Nigeria and it is destroying Nigerian youths. $1 billion is spent on gambling daily in Nigeria, according to the National Lottery Trust Fund. Please fact-check me.

“The average Nigerian spends $15 daily on sports betting and other types of gambling, with the vast majority of that amount leaving our economy and going to places like Russia, South Africa, and Europe. The Naira can never sustain its rally under such circumstances.”

Findings by PUNCH Online reveal that several sports betting firms operate in Nigeria. Some of the betting firms include Bet9ja, Nairabet, Merry Bet and SportyBet, amongst others.

Omokri, in his post, further urged Tinubu to “act on such a matter as threatening to our national security as this gambling epidemic.”

He also condemned the illegal means through which some Nigerian youths sought money “to fund their gambling habit.”

PUNCH Online reports that the Minister of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, Zephaniah Jisalo, said the Federal Government would find a lasting solution to the friction caused by revenue generation in the gaming sector.

Jisalo noted that the FG “will do all within its statutory powers to ensure the gaming industry remains on the steady path of sustainable growth and development,” while speaking at the 2023 International Gaming Conference held at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos State, on Tuesday, October 31, 2023.

The Fund’s Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, Bello Maigari, appearing before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Monday, November 20, 2023, stated that the Fund, in 2023, generated N2.5 billion, noting however that the entire sum had been spent in the execution of various projects across the country.

The money, he said, was generated from statutory remittances from licenses and permit holders.

Source: https://punchng.com/Ban-sports-betting-apps-Reno-Omokri-urges-Tinubu

LegendHero:
Nigeria mentality at play. Who tell you that they must not be commended?

If the FG suddenly lay claim to say they disbursed $500m to people for loan for example, Nigerian will coe online to shout "Who are the people", "No one got this", "Government are scammers", and bla bla bla.

yet people do actually got it but turnaround to badmouth the government about being a scam.

If you don't commend the government for doing their work, how will your democracy succeed if there is no reward system for politicians that perform?

LegendHero:
While reading through the Tweets, something caught my attention.

So people have been collecting these loans from the government and yet no one ever came out to commend the past government for giving this amount of huge loans.

Then suddenly, when CBN start automatically deducting it, they are now coming out to say they got the loan and know those who got it in panic mode because they are now sad it got deducted. Some even agreed to the corruption by allowing agents to take 70% of the fund and scamming the government.

No country can survive this kind of people we have in Nigeria. Extremely corrupt people who run to blame government for every single thing.

Workch:
You built narrow Guage in port Harcourt to Aba where most of the money is coming from but then you build standard Guage in Lagos to kano.

Lol, make una dey play

OKUCHI11:
So this monumental edifice was built to glorify a god that cannot save his followers when they were being killed on Christmas Eve... After all the empty promises he made to them that he will protect them if they forsake their ancestral ways of worship and follow the one he instructed....


Truth be told that God really like horror movies

Aniokon:
Group Blast ex Gov. Udom Emmanuel for seeking Tinubu's attention after pre-election insults

Akwa Ibom League of Professionals, ALP, has lambasted former Governor Udom Emmanuel for seeking President Bola Tinubu's attention despite all the unprintable names he (Udom) called the President during the 2023 Presidential election campaign.

In a statement issued yesterday in Lagos by its President, Ifiok Okon, the group noted that it is regrettable that Udom Emmanuel who once labelled President Tinubu with all manner of insults, is now trotting everywhere seeking to be in the good books of the President and spending millions of dollars to have access to the president today.

The group cautioned the President to be wary of the likes of Udom whom they described as opportunists and wants to reap from where they did not sow.

The statement reads in part: " We have watched keenly and observed how people like former Governor Udom Emmanuel are now seeking President Tinubu's attention after they took him to the cleaners with insults prior and during the 2023 presidential election.

"We remember vividly how Udom Emmanuel spent over five minutes talking down the President after the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential campaign in Akwa Ibom State saying Tinubu doesn't have anything to offer Nigerians just because he (Udom) was called "a boy" which he is.

"The 'Boy" locked the President and his entourage out of the VIP wing of the Victor Attah International Airport when the President landed for over 30 minutes, insisting that if the president's jet is allowed to be parked in the VIP wing that he will sack the MD of Ibom Airport .

"We recall that if not for Senator Godswill Akpabio, the "Boy" wouldn't have allowed President Tinubu to use the stadium for the campaign just because he (Udom) felt he is a demigod.

"That wasn't enough, Udom went ahead and claimed that the President isn't from Lagos but up till today, he is yet to tell us where President Tinubu is from".

"Again, Udom went on to deceive himself and his small minded impoverished followers that the first money President Tinubu ever received when he came back from NADECO exile to relaunch himself was from his desk but until now he has refused to tell the whole world the amount, and if at all, was the money his"? "What a shame", the statement continues.

"Udom boasted that Tinubu won't be the President of Nigeria, stating that there's nothing like "Emilokan" but what do we have today"?

"Emilokan has come to stay and the boy (Udom) has no option now than to be begging to see the President".

"This is a man who lives in the illusion of self-lust, believing in filtering away all the resources of the State on an endless voyage and bottomless pit of installing a puppet to cover his past deeds due to his belief that everyone has a price".

"This is a man who was caught boasting that he spent over $50m to purchase a judgement at the Supreme Court just like he has done at the two lower courts even to the extent of videoing Judges collecting bribes and sending them the video thereafter to compel them to do his biddings. What a desperate and shameful act of a drowning man". The group noted.

"Is this the reason Gov. Udom has been boasting that he has contracted the President Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Mensem to lobby the Justices of the Supreme Court to ensure the judgment is in his stooge's favor promising to give each justice in the panel $10m and the Chief Justice of Nigeria $15M as his retirement largesse since according to him is retiring soon?"

"The question we want to ask Gov. Udom and Pst. Umo Eno is what has been the impact of their administration in the last 8years and 7 months on the lives of the people they governed? Filtering away the entire resources of the State all in the name of installing a successor and institutionalizing occultism in Akwa ibom State"

"A man given to ingratitude and a betrayal of the highest order who can never keep his words. An issue at hand is his betrayal of Senator Akpabio who brought him to power as Governor of Akwa Ibom State but thereafter, he fought him out of the state but today he’s sending his stooge Pastor Umo Eno to befriend the same Senator Akpabio with all sort of mouth watering promises all to survive the immediate scare of the Supreme Court".

"The question is, if all is ok, why these frustrations and apprehension in a man who believes he has conquered Akwa Ibom State?" The group queried.

"Our sincere caution to President Tinubu is to be wary of people like Gov. Udom or his stooge because they are double-edged and speak from both sides of their mouth. They (Udom and Umo Eno) mean no good and should be avoided like a plague," the statement added.


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https://pmexpressng.com/group-blasts-former-governor-udom-for-seeking-tinubus-attention-after-pre-election-insults/

BeautifulMind2:
Anu these are roads constructed by private citizens

tesppidd:
Law of karma in full play.

What gives anybody the right to bring anyone to power or make anyone governor?
Is that the democracy?

What gives any man the right to buy form for everyone contesting in his party? Not with his personal money but money meant to provide for poor Rivers people?

Because you helped a man to power,

You will choose 30 assembly members for him.
Choose 95 percent of his commissioners for him.
Choose chief of staff for him.
Choose Chief security officer for him.
Still be collecting money.


Habaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Whatever happened serves Wike right. That one na small sef.

In short Fubara wasted too much time. He should have started the fight after 2 weeks.

Wike wanted to be third term governor.


Call Fubara ungrateful, I call Wike greedy.

Me I have never seen anyone as greedy as Wike.

Mynd44:
It means Wike is now in charge of the house of assembly

Indispensable85:
Must you display your ignorance? It's honourable to keep quiet in matters you have no knowledge of.

TruthsFM:
More Hardship Looms For Nigerians As DisCos Set To Increase Electricity Tariff On Jan 1

While the pains of fuel subsidy removal still linger, the confusion surrounding a planned electricity tariff increment starting from January 1, 2024 has compounded the worries.

It was gathered that the officials of the Nigeria’s Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) held a virtual emergency meeting recently to formalise and perfect the planned tariff increase.

A source in one of the DisCos, who claimed anonymity, confirmed the development to Daily Trust on Sunday.

The source said: “All has been perfected for the new tariff to take effect from the first of January, 2024.

It is now left for various electricity distribution companies to enlighten their customers on new developments.”

The source said the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had already invited distribution companies for a meeting on the development.
He expressed fear that while it is mandatory for electricity distribution companies to regularly evaluate tariffs every six months, the recent increase would meet customers’ dissatisfaction.

“In fact, we were perturbed by the short notice and how we would reach out to our customers about the increase,” he said.
Asked how much the increase would be, the source said, “No idea so far, but the uncertainty has put us in a difficult situation.”

Recall that in November 2023, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stopped the implementation of the electricity tariff, insisting on a power sector subsidy.

Speaking on Tinubu’s directive on electricity tariff hikes, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said, “The power sector is an industry that is very sensitive to any leader.

“You cannot jump overnight and implement the cost-reflective tariff. I can tell you that till today, the government still subsidises power”.



https://www.osundefender.com/more-hardship-looms-for-nigerians-as-discos-set-to-increase-electricity-tariff-on-jan-1/

Pierohandsome:
Akpabio taking over Rivers State is a death nail on Wike

Yuri141:
https://punchng.com/dont-ruin-your-future-with-hard-drugs-buhari-tells-youths/

Antoeni:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/655590-security-has-improved-in-nigeria-since-i-assumed-office-tinubu.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

NLCreator:
https://twitter.com/seunosewa/status/1741717596074897860?s=19[/quote]Seun 😂 your comments may have been based on tribal sentiment and bigotry, very soon you would leave Nairaland 😂

chisomkachy:
Jideofor Adibe is a Professor of Political Science at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi



https://www.channelstv.com/2023/12/31/inec-chair-should-have-resigned-over-conduct-of-2023-elections-varsity-don/?fbclid=IwAR1bdstULwQmZa99pr7zTOsohyXb6S8nerj_Qg6dA6LWwhqPe6XkS6HPj4U

nlfpmod mynd44 mukina2

Bobloco:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/12/just-in-port-harcourt-refinery-still-test-running-nnpc/amp/

Benwallt:
Reno Omokri has taken to Instagram to taunt politician Peter Obi for flying a Private jet to Plateau state on Saturday December 30.


He posted a video of Peter Obi disembarking from the private jet alongside his running mate in the 2023 presidential election, Datti Baba-Ahmed, and wrote

‘’I don’t fly Private fly”

NwaNimo1:
https://nairametrics.com/2023/12/31/tinubus-govt-borrows-n2-94-trillion-from-cbn-to-service-domestic-debt-in-six-months/

NwaNimo1:
https://nairametrics.com/2023/12/31/tinubus-govt-borrows-n2-94-trillion-from-cbn-to-service-domestic-debt-in-six-months/

Kukutenla:
Tinubu should resign if he can't guarantee the safety of the people of the middle belt

Mouthing platitudes and releasing press statements like Buhari won't cut it this time around

fergie001:
Ihezue was MBGN in 2017 and reigning Miss Universe 2023.

Ukachukwu represented Bwari/Abuja Municipal Federal Constituency in the House of Reps (1999-2003)



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security/amp/]SOURCE [/url]

Must he go? Can't he just celebrate Xmas wherever he is and forget about the show off this year in the village.

MrProlific95:
Where is the Market, please

Okirinwankwa76:
INEC promotes 5,196 members of staff




https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/12/inec-promotes-5196-members-of-staff/