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Wema Bank App.... Is the worst and most frustrating app you can ever used.

Wealthyonos:
Seyi Makinde and Seyi Tinubu are both name sake. Convince me that one is better than the other.

Received sense by force...is that what the post about?

I just laughed when people who are s#uffering and smiling say we should not talk about the man who laid a foundation of bad governance in Nigeria.

To build a house, or to build a people and to build a country you need a very solid foundation for your successors and your coming generations to build on.

When we were in regional governments, late Pa Awolowo built a great foundation for the Yoruba people to build on. He also built the Yoruba people with Free Education and Free Medical Care.

In 1966, the Igbo easterners scrapped the regional governments and introduced the present unitary system that we are now practicing in Nigeria, all because they (the Igbo easterners) wanted to control the Yoruba resources, and control Lagos.

In 1967, the Igbo easterners started a civil war, all because Yoruba and Northerners resisted them unitary system idea.

The war ended in 1970 and Gowon became the Head of States. And because Gowon knew what the Yoruba people were capable of, he released the Yoruba leader- Pa Awolowo from prison, and made him the Finance Minister and Chairman of the Federal Executive Council.

And, in the four years that Yoruba Pa Awolowo spent in Gowon’s government, they both turned Lagos that was the capital city then to a mini-London with overhead bridges everywhere.
Every Nigerians were happy and the employment rate in Nigeria was so high as there was jobs everywhere.
Rarely you will see a graduate who hasn’t got job then.

In 1971, Pa Awolowo resigned his position in Gowon’s government because Gen. Gowon reneged on his promise to handover power to the civilian in 1970.

Fast forward to 1976 when Gen. Obasanjo took over as Head States. Baba changed all the structures that Pa Awolowo and Gowon laid down by nationalising everything that were controlled by the states and regional governments.

Baba nationalised everything the Yoruba people built with their sweat including the Western Region Cocoa Marketing Board.

When Baba Obasanjo wanted to leave in 1979, instead of him to handover power to the people who could build the nation, he handed over to incompetent Grade 2 teacher, Sheu Shagari who later mismanaged the country with corruption.

Ditto in 2007, instead of Obasanjo to handover power to brainy and well intelligent leader, he gave Nigeria a sick man , Yar’adua and put a Zoologist (animal specialists, as if Nigerians are animals) Goodluck Jonathan as his deputy.

It was the Baba Obasanjo’s unvisionary leadership that makes Nigerians poor and makes Nigeria what it is today. Otherwise, Nigeria would have been one of the greatest black nation on the planet.

Now, Bola Tinubu is trying to put Nigeria back into the line of putting those who are progressive in leadership positions. And with time, things will change in Nigeria for good.

So, unless you can rebut the points I raised, please don’t ever say I should not be talking about Baba Obasanjo again.

Haydens:
The only luck wey arsenal get better say no be for stadium of light dem go play today.

If them like let them play for stadium of darkness na the same results, no be stadium they play ball na football players dey play and they play to win

Azazyel:
Look I understand that you are pained and that is why you are dishing out such comments. I didn't expect anything different sha. You'll always find an excuse to talk down on them. The fact is ManU is a very good team at the moment. Only a good team beats city and arsenal back to back. Only a well drilled team keeps clean sheet against city and keeps haaland quiet. Lastly, only a superb team can defeat arsenal at the Emirates. Any team that can beat arsenal at the Emirates is no average team. Do you know how hard it is to achieve such feat at the Emirates now? Go and verify from other world class teams in Europe that have faced arsenal recently.

Man United is only good at the moment bcuz they play one match per week and you can't equates them with a team that plays two or three matches.... let's be factual here and stop defending senseless absorptions bcuz of love for ones club.

Next season when they play multiple matches it's then you can see your true Man United, for now enjoy the moment.

BOOKWORMLUX:
Mention one thing Obama did for the black race

He killed Gaddafi 😏🥹🤔😈😤

Helinuse:
A whole General living in an apartment building.

In Nigeria, a new junior officer is walking through an airport with a fire arm and disrespecting staffs simply because he was cheered on initially.

How did a junior officer acquire a personal fire arm? For what reason? That is the exclusive “privilege “ and not “rights” of eve very senior officers.

Was he not trained in the art of firearms? He has every right to own it if he can afford it. Your corrupt policemen do own firearms if you don't know. Talkless of a military man owning one.

Boladogailese:
All I know is every seconds every minute I will continue to love my husband Baba dare the man who caught me cheating 3 times and still forgave me o I cherish you my love

Can you say that again....😳

I don't understand your English 🥹🤔😏

Fiscus105:
Currently, he has been frozen out from the squad, because he wanted to dictate how owners of the club should run their club, no human beings can achieve all his heart desires, if you refuse to quit wen ovation is loud, you become object of ridicules for those who are supposed to be idolising you.

Ọga, cool down you gat too much hates in your blood streams and you're speaking trash. Try getting the true story instead of making mockery of your STEWPID trash you called comment. 😤

The Grammy award that is accorded to Wizkid is not even his own music but Beyonce feature him. It's a joint award winning video.

For Wizkid to show he's proper Grammy award must be from his own personal music.

BItt:
The car no get insurance?
What's the scare?

Even if the Bentley is under insurance, the insurance company will surely come after the Uber driver as well. That's the rules if found the Uber driver to be liable for the damages. They'll surely seized his car and everything to cover the cost.

People just like to cast aspersions on Ronaldo anyhow. The hatred is just too much and this thread throwing banter at someone who has achieved everything in football but still making waves and that's why the hatred is getting higher and the higher the hatred the more he continues to soar higher in pride and everything.

BigYash:
This life..if the driver had carried them to their destination safe, nobody go care to know the driver's name and age o.. But as things went south now,them don hold am for brokos, forgetting that he is also facing trauma at the moment. Dude wasted two people,ended a promising career of brother J. He is not going to forgive himself anytime soon. And now,them don put am for prison.

AJ for just forgive am..

The useless road safety and police talking now,why didn't they tow the truck,while it was stationed there in the first place?

So for your mind na AJ charge him to court? It's against the state and AJ does not even know what's going about the driver being arrested and charging to court.

The driver on his own part is facing two hot charges, He has no driver's license and His reckless driving.

Finally, Tinubu has sold Nigeria to France.😥
So, this is the landing ground, right. Surrendering our valuable data to France in the name of partnering on tax.

"The Federal Inland Revenue Service has signed a landmark cooperation pact with France aimed at modernising Nigeria’s tax administration through digital transformation, capacity development and improved cross-border enforcement.
The agreement comes barely weeks before the formal transition into the Nigeria Revenue Service by January 2026." - News.

This Arsenal are playing rubbish and I know all along that Aston go scored them with their silly passes. I wondered why you're in the attacking position and still be playing the ball backwards....😤

Throwback:
He must not be allowed to commit any further crimes in Prison, being a wild and unrepentant anarchist.

This is how all terrorists should be locked up or neutralised.

1 down, many more to go until Nigeria is well rid of those who want to impose chaos on the country.

I wonder who Igbos blame for the criminal trial and conviction of Simon Ekpa in Finland?

A people devoid of objectivity.

Justice for the many Igbo security agents who were killed in Igboland. Justice for the many Igbo civilians who were killed by the chaos and anarchy that Nnamdi Kanu midwifed.

Thanks to the Nigerian government that prevented the anarchy that Kanu attempted to inflict on the SouthEast.

Imagine the breakdown of law and order that would have engulfed the SouthEast if the Buhari regime had not stepped in to eradicate IPOB's terror and grip on the SouthEast. There would have been no legitimate government in that section of the country at the rate Kanu was determined to impose himself and his group as the forced leaders of the Igbo people.

For your eyes 👀 you don't typed something meaningful.....oya go and hang it around your neck and go to the market square to dance the fuuuulssss dance! Nonsense ingredients, bombastic element.

Winterhaven:
I'm flummoxed by all the accolades the yerima officer is getting.

Even though wike acted like a tout, still doesn't make the officer a hero as he's guarding a land owned by a private individual, which is not the duty of a soldier.

If he was carrying out a duty required of a soldier, then it's a different thing. Rather, he was carrying out a boy boy errand and not serving his country.

Stop sounding garrulous and referencing the land private property. It belongs to a General and who happens to be his superior and it's his duty to guide his superior as well as his family and property. And stop talking anyhow if you be Wike boy!

Orinechi:
Why should the officer argue that the documents were valid? Was he the person who issued the documents? Is it not only a fool that will argue the validity of a documents that were neither issued to him no issued through him

So Wike as well cannot argue the validity of the documents to the land at the appropriate quarters instead of jumping into convoys to the site? It takes two to tango bro! Don't be one sided on this case...Wile is totally wrong on this.

NelbromTech:
but it's responsible for the minster to call a country military man a big fool telling him to shut up? Some of you are dump cowards hence why politicians or rich man step on your head. There is order of hierarchy in the military. It's not even right for the president to directly order lower/foot soliders, the order has to come from the president to the chief of defense staff, then to service chief, and other hierarchy before it gets to the foot solider. Chain of command is extremely important in the military. Wike can't just go there and tell a military man following command to move and disobey his order. He should call higher hierarchy, then that higher order will call the military man to move. You think say military na beans abi. Rubbish

You're right and if the soldier dare moved or abandoned the line he was supposed to handle because of Wike he'll be charged with mutiny from his constituted authority that gave him that order. That's an unbecoming of an expected soldier, he could be derank or even lose his uniform.

Freshandfitpod:
You can't use a soldier for private use, both of them did not handle the situation properly. If you cheer the soldiers today, it might be your turn tomorrow.

We should continue cheering Wike the Land Grabber abi?

All the ògógóró master needs to do is simply to call his superior who gave him the order. Military operates by order from their hierarchy. Let that sinks in your head.

being:
As much as people may not like Wike, it is very irresponsible to be talking to a minister like that. Hw can a ministry or an agency of govt be on enforcement and then u say u follow orders.. however, where wike is to be blamed is his slowness to call d CNS Or CDS to order his boys out. Altogether. It is an embarrassment to the country that a security agency would prevent the work of a representative of govt. This is not much about wike but the chaos of the system. Indeed the c-in-c should actually issue a query to the CNS(since the officer was actually following orders) for allowing his institution to be involved in such lawlessness

Military unlike Civilian follow order from their hierarchy. The most discipline sector na the military.

All I know is that the civilian govt are lawless people with impunity, and the military boys are just cool by taking orders bcuz of the constitution and a wrong towards one of them can spell doom. Just bcuz they watch and listen and carry out orders doesn't mean they're stupid....shit can go wrong...Just imagine the Embarrassment herein!

Common Sense should have come to play here and applied by the Minister!

All he ought to have done was to collect the Name of the General that has the Land and report to his Superior or mark the Site than allowing this to happen and even be videoed!

Nah Wah Ooooo!!!! 2 wrongs can't make a right now!!!!

My Respect goes to that Captain!!!🎩

🇳🇬⚖️ SENIOR ADVOCATES OF NIGERIA FAULT TRUMP’S THREAT TO DEPLOY U.S. TROOPS OVER ALLEGED CHRISTIAN KILLINGS

Leading constitutional lawyers and Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) have strongly condemned the recent remarks by former U.S. President Donald Trump, in which he hinted at deploying American ground troops and launching airstrikes in Nigeria over alleged killings of Christians in the country.

Trump, in a viral video, claimed that “Christians are being killed in very large numbers” in Nigeria and that the United States “will not allow that to happen.” The statement has triggered widespread backlash from legal and diplomatic quarters in Nigeria, with several SANs describing the comments as “reckless, unconstitutional, and a violation of Nigeria’s sovereignty.”

Speaking to journalists in Abuja, renowned constitutional lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) described Trump’s statement as an “unwarranted interference” in Nigeria’s internal affairs.

> “No foreign leader has the legal or moral authority to threaten military action against a sovereign state on the basis of unverified reports. Nigeria is an independent nation, not a colony of the United States,” Falana said. “The proper channel for such concerns is through diplomacy, not threats of invasion.”

Another prominent legal luminary, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), warned that any attempt by a foreign power to deploy troops into Nigeria without United Nations authorization would amount to an act of aggression and war under international law.

> “Trump’s comment is not just careless; it is dangerous. It undermines global peace principles. If the U.S. has intelligence about atrocities, it should share such information through diplomatic or humanitarian frameworks, not through threats,” Ozekhome stated.

Similarly, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) urged the Nigerian government to issue a formal diplomatic protest to the U.S. government, stressing that the comments could strain bilateral relations and embolden extremist narratives within the country.

> “Such rhetoric can destabilize Nigeria’s fragile security balance. The government must act swiftly to defend the nation’s image and sovereignty,” Agbakoba said.

The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs is reportedly monitoring the development and is expected to issue an official response soon. Sources within the ministry suggest that Nigerian diplomats in Washington have been directed to engage U.S. officials to clarify the nation’s position and seek assurances against any form of military provocation.

Meanwhile, civil society organizations have joined the SANs in denouncing Trump’s remarks, emphasizing that Nigeria’s security challenges are multifaceted — driven by terrorism, banditry, and communal conflicts — not religious persecution as often portrayed.

As reactions continue to pour in, the consensus among Nigerian legal experts remains clear: any foreign military intervention without consent would be a grave violation of Nigeria’s sovereignty and international law.

Mj4199:
I never like this Government at all but you see this West they should keep their Propaganda away from us abeg.... We know the game plan using Christians killing to gain access to our resources is a no no for us...

What have you benefitted from the same resources if at all is the American aim? They removed subsidy which you and I know that it's the cabal collecting and instead of exposing those cabals, the masses were to suffer by removing the subsidy and using taxation to finish Nigeria masses. What a wicked and insensitive government...😤

Stop crying over something that's not beneficial to you. Think about your existence first in this Life.

Wiseman2y:
Ronaldo will never win world cup, Ronaldo will never have most trophies, Ronaldo will never have most individual awards, Ronaldo will never have most goals in a calendar year. Ronaldo will never reach world cup final talk less of scoring in world cup finals. Ronaldo will never have most assists in football, Ronaldo will never have most man of the match award, Ronaldo will never have most dribbles.ronaldo will not have most golden shoes.

This guy dey really vex o 😁 ...Messi dey pay you? Better use that energy against your hustling you will never have time to vex like this because you'll have plenty things to deal with that will make you prosper in Life than hating on someone God has already blessed.

In 1992, Babangida expelled Sowore from the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
In 1993, Abacha arrested Sowore.
In 1998, the Abdulsalami government arrested Sowore at the National University Games Association (NUGA) events in Lagos.
In 2006, Obasanjo and El-Rufai sued Sowore for interviewing Gbenga Obasanjo and exposing the third term agenda.
In 2007, the late Umaru Yar'Adua banned Sahara Reporters in Nigeria.
In 2014, Goodluck Jonathan's associate, Reno Omokri, attempted to file a lawsuit in the U.S. to bankrupt Sahara Reporters, but he could not proceed after receiving a threatening letter, as Jonathan lost the election in 2015.
In 2017, then Senate President Bukola Saraki sued Sowore, obtained a questionable judgment from the Kwara State High Court, and froze Sahara Reporters' accounts for a year.
In 2019, Buhari arrested Sowore and charged him with treason.
In 2023, Tinubu placed Sowore on the immigration watchlist.
In 2025, the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, arrested Sowore for cybercrime and seized his international passport.

Whether you like him or dislike him, Sowore is a significant force to reckon with. Apart from Fela Kuti, no Nigerian has endured so much at the hands of the government for standing up for what is right as Sowore.

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CHINEDU RHODES-VIVOUR - THE TROJAN HORSE AND THE AJAYI CROWTHER CONNECTION.

Please take your time to read this long post like a story. It is important.

Our Elders say that when the child of the crippled mother goes to the market to buy her shoes he will hear stories.

I always find it rather depressing that history will continually repeat itself in Yoruba land so freely and unabated.

1. Yesterday I stumbled on a post on Twitter written by one Ife Salako and it is the reason I am provoked to write this post.

That chap actually insinuated that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and by extension the likes of Governor Sanwoolu and other Yoruba men like me, are not Lagosians and therefore had less ancestral rights to privileges in Lagos State than the one he calls Gbadebo who is the "Ọmọ Èkó".

Nonsense.

Such insolence from an ignorant mind.

2. First and foremost, ALL people of Kóòtú Òjíire migrated everywhere from Ilé-ifé to all the geographical spaces now known as Western Region or SW and beyond to Edo, Itshekiri and Kogi in Nigeria and many other towns outside Nigeria like Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire and far beyond to the Caribbeans.

3. Every single one of those people of Kóòtú Òjíire has RIGHTS to greater privileges anywhere in Yoruba than any NON-YORUBA person and that includes the place now called Lagos State made up of Ijebu, Awori, Remo, Egba and Ègùn, is part of that Yoruba land.

We won't even come to nearby Benin to claim or drag anything unlike the IBOS who want to drag even your bedrooms with you.

4. The Awori people who constitute the greatest percentage of Lagos maestropolis [ probably not the majority aboriginals in Lagos State ] and parts of Ogun State are infact directly from Ilé-ifé.

5. Gbarebo Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour IS NOT ANY PART OF THIS ANCESTRY.

He is in NO WAY an Awori or Yoruba or anything that originated from Yoruba land.

HE IS A FULL BLOODED IBO MAN!!!!!

To that extent he DOESN'T qualify at all to claim or feel entitled to ANCESTRAL PRIVILEGES IN AWORI LAND let alone saying he is more Lagosian than any true-born Yoruba man, even a YORUBA man who is from TRINIDAD and has never been to Lagos before.

Who the hell is he to think he is a Lagosian?

He is no more Lagosian than Peter Obi, if the term Lagosian describes people who live in Lagos.

6. I have now arrived at the logical conclusion that Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther was the tool USED by the British to plant the TROJAN HORSE of the Ibo Rhodes-Vivour and God-knows how many others like them into Lagos

Ajayi Crowther and VIVOUR were kidnapped into slavery and "rescued" about the same time by the British.

VIVOUR was a young IBO boy captured in OPOBO of today's Rivers State while CROWTHER was captured in OSOOGUN in today's Oyo State.

They were about the same ages when they met in SIERRA LEONE

7. William Vivour is the son of VIVOUR, born a FULL IBO in Sierra Leone and he lived there a while with his father.

Abigail is the daughter of CROWTHER, also born in Sierra Leone.

They were both contemporaries and lived in that country while the British were brainwashing them in preparation for the trip back home.

8. Williams returned to OPOBO and got GARNET VIVOUR. They were living there between Opobo and Fernando Po.

Abigail married Revd Babington Macaulay in Sierra Leone and gave birth to HERBERT MACAULAY.

Herbert Macaulay and Garnet Vivour were contemporaries

9. Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Babington Macaulay, Abigail and Herbert Macaulay all returned and settled between Abeokuta and Lagos.

They all got down to doing "God's work"

Eventually Crowther was despatched to EAST OF THE NIGER to civilise the tribes dwelling in those forests of Aguleri, Umuleri, Agulu etc.

Crowther probably didn't wonder how the British knew that those people were there in that thick forest totally cut off from civilization.

They were running stark naked in the forests living like barbarians.

The British DROPPED them there some 200 years earlier from Fernando Po on the BIGHT OF BIAFRA.

10. Crowther definitely reconnected with Williams and Garnet.Vivour while he was on his "evangelism" mission around the East.

He MUST have known their location in that area.

Crowther brought Garnet as a FULL IBO MAN to Lagos.

GARNET WAS NOT SARO.

Herbert Macaulay and Garnet must have met through Crowther.

They were contemporaries and they were both educated in the ways of the British.

They were automatic ELITES of the Lagos of that era.

11. Along the way, as Samuel Crowther was civilizing the IBO people of the forests, Obed-Edom Azikiwe had managed to go with the Europeans

OBED-EDOM was contemporary of Herbert MACAULAY and GARNET Vivour.

I bet they all met in Ibo land East of the Niger.

12. OBED-EDOM eventually worked his way into the corridors of Lord Luggard in Zungeru, the Headquarters of Northern Protectorate in today's Niger State. He was close to the source of INFORMATION.

He was the father of Nnamdi Azikiwe. He had him in Zungeru.

Louis Ojukwu was Nnamdi's contemporary and they were both in Zungeru.

13. Garnet Vivour in Lagos had met Sarah Rhodes, a SARO from the Rhodes family.

Garnet WAS NOT SARO in any way. He was an IBO economic immigrant from Opobo.

When he married Sarah Rhodes, he changed his name and became known as Garnet RHODES-VIVOUR.

It was at that point that the fraud started.

He got a son by Sarah Rhodes and he named him AKINWUNMI RHODES-VIVOUR

14. Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour was an IBO MAN but he claimed Yoruba ANCESTRY immediately at birth.

It wouldn't have mattered or been a problem but the issue is that these people were ANTI-YORUBA LAND from day one and till this day of Chinedu Rhodes-Vivour.

They did everything to undermine Yoruba and they mostly influenced the SAROS negatively and instigated them against the aborigines who accommodated them.

15. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Louis Ojuwku, Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour were all contemporaries, all about the ages and ALL IBOS.

They were also contemporaries with the children of Herbert Macaulay and it is very likely Herbert Macaulay had children by IBO WOMAN.

They were ALL automatic ELITES of Lagos.

If you have ever wondered how Nnamdi Azikiwe managed to become appointed as the powerful SECRETARY of NCNC and easily took over the party from Herbert Macaulay upon his death, this is it.

Rhodes-Vivour and the man IBO PEOPLE who blended into the SARO IDENTITY formed an ETHNIC IBO BOND in Lagos and then used the NCNC which was the ONLY PARTY at the time.

Azikiwe was so confident that Yoruba land Nigeria were for the Ibos to inherit and he openly boasted about this.

16. While all that was going on, Yoruba people like Adeniran Ogunsanya, Funmilayo Ransom-Kuti, Adegoke Adelabu, TOS Benson went into NCNC and Ibo schemes totally blinded to these things.

They could never have known.

They were all Elites playing "Detribalized Politics" of Nationalism.

Nnamdi Azikiwe and his people already HAD SUPERIOR INFORMATION from Zungeru through their fathers.

They knew exactly where Nigeria was going.

My Yoruba people didn't know just as many of us still don't understand till today.

It was only by DEEP NATIVE WISDOM that men like Obafemi Awolowo, Ladoke Akintola, Bode Thomas etc saw the plot and reacted.

It was almost too late but thank God they got it and began to form Egbe Ọmọ Odùdúwà.

It was what saved Yoruba land.

The rest of that era is history today.

Nnamdi Azikiwe and his Ibo kinsmen did everything to frustrate Awolowo rallying Yoruba unity just as it is happening today with Ibos blackmailimg you with shouts of Tribalism and Bigotry.

17. But we are back again.

Chinedu is the new Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour and Peter Obi is the new Nnamdi Azikiwe.

And they are repeating the same old tricks.

Chinedu is telling you that he is "Ọmọ Èkó Gangan" and Peter Obi is preaching against Tribalism, Bigotry and Nepotism.

They want you to turn against your Leaders and trust them.

They are asking you to do detribalized Politics whereas they are the champions of Tribal Politics.

18. Believe me, these people have ONE AGENDA ONLY - TAKE OVER LAGOS.

It is an obsession and they won't stop trying to do it.

They will continue trying.

They will bamboozle and blackmail you until you commit the error of giving in to them.

ONCE THEY GET LAGOS, THEY WILL NEVER LET GO BUT KEEP IT FOREVER AND FROM LAGOS OVERRUN THE WHOLE OF YORUBA LAND.

THINK!!!

YORUBA RONÚ!!!

#Igbimoomoyoruba
#ThinkYorubaFirst

©️ Adedamola Adetayo
27 September 2025

From Devaluation to Domination: How Tinubu’s Exchange Rate Reforms Turned the Naira into Nigeria’s Export Engine

By Tanimu Yakubu

When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration dismantled Nigeria’s rigid foreign exchange regime in 2024, critics were quick to call it a currency collapse. The naira plunged to ₦1,800 per dollar in March 2024, and headlines screamed of economic freefall. But beneath the noise, a deliberate, high-risk economic recalibration was underway, one that has now begun to pay off in spectacular fashion.

By August 2025, the naira had clawed its way back to ₦1,525/$1, marking a 15.28% strengthening in just five months, an annualised pace of nearly 48.9%.

This wasn’t luck; it was policy. Increased oil receipts, swelling diaspora remittances, and the clearing of over $4 billion in foreign exchange backlogs restored investor trust.

The unification of Nigeria’s FX windows created a single, transparent market rate, finally letting the currency find its realistic value.

Why does this matter? Because a realistic exchange rate does more than please economists, it changes the very arithmetic of trade.

Nigerian goods, once overpriced in dollars due to an artificially strong naira, suddenly became bargains on global markets. A bag of sesame seeds, cocoa beans, or even processed chocolate instantly cost less in New York, Mumbai, or São Paulo, without the Nigerian farmer or factory owner earning less in naira terms.

The result was swift and striking. Non-oil exports jumped from $2.696 billion in H1 2024 to $3.225 billion in H1 2025, a 19.62% year-on-year growth. And this wasn’t just a “price illusion.”

Export volumes rose from 3.83 million to 4.04 million metric tonnes, proof that foreign buyers weren’t just paying more for the same goods, they were buying more goods, period.

A perfect “sweet spot” had emerged:
• For buyers abroad, Nigerian goods were cheaper than competitors’.
• For exporters at home, the naira value of earnings soared, enabling reinvestment into value-added processing, turning raw cocoa into chocolate bars, raw sesame into bottled oil.
• For the economy, the export surge pumped foreign exchange back into the system, strengthening the naira without eroding its competitiveness.

The feedback loop is textbook economics:
FX Reform → Realistic Naira
Cheaper USD Prices → Export Boom
Export Boom → FX Inflows
FX Inflows → Naira Stability
Naira Stability → Investor Confidence & Long-Term Growth

What’s remarkable is that this cycle feeds itself. As Nigerian goods win more market share globally, the inflow of export dollars reinforces naira stability. That stability lowers risk for investors, inviting portfolio and capital inflows that further bolster reserves.

The critics who cried “worthless naira” missed the bigger picture: a floating currency is not a sign of weakness, it is a tool for national competitiveness. By refusing to prop up the naira with scarce reserves and instead letting market forces work, the Tinubu administration has set the stage for a sustainable, export-driven growth path.

If Nigeria stays the course, the naira’s recovery won’t just be about exchange rates, it will be the story of an economy finally learning how to turn its currency into a competitive weapon on the world stage.

Tanimu Yakubu is the Director-General of
Budget Office of the Federation

For media inquiries, please contact: Dr. Afolabi Olajuwon, fnipr
Email: media@budgetoffice.gov.ng
Budget Office of the Federation

𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁.

On the 19th of January, 2022, Godwin Ikoiwak drove from Uyo to Ikono after being summoned by his in-laws for a meeting.

He never returned.

Another episode of me seeing the teachings of Edo Baba , Leonardo Medici , Emediong Sunday , InDiscov , Chisom B. Oshienyi and others here, play out in real life.

Godwin Ikoiwak was a top promising and brilliant prosecuting counsel at the Ministry of Justice in Akwa Ibom State. He was married to Abasieseabanga, also a lawyer and a staff of the Court of Appeal in Calabar. They got married in 2017 and had 2 children.

Trouble started when Godwin started becoming suspicious of Abasieseabanga’s fidelity and decided to carry out investigations.

What he discovered were shocking to say the least.

He discovered that she was allegedly having an affair with her former employer.

Most shocking was the fact that as a teen, his wife had lived with one Reverend Father Maurice Mbeke. Ikoiwak discovered that Father Mbeke had allegedly impregnated her at that time and she gave birth to a son. Allegedly, the boy is named after Father Mbeke’s maternal grandfather.

When they got married, she and her family connived and deceived Ikoiwak that the said son was her younger brother. The boy moved in with them after marriage, and Ikoiwak, unknown to him, was raising a child from an illicit affair with a priest! At the time of marriage, the boy was 14 years old.

In addition (according to his friend), each time his wife said she was pregnant, he did not set eyes on her until after delivery, when she would present the child and say: “This is your child.”

These discoveries, and perhaps others, motivated him to confront his wife with the allegations and demand a paternity / DNA test.

He also reported her to her family, his in-laws. (I wonder why he would do that when it was the same in-laws that concealed the fact that his wife had a child before marriage and deceived him that the said boy was her brother.)

On the 19th of January, after appearing in a matter at the Federal High Court, Uyo, he drove all the way to Ikono. His in-laws had summoned him for a meeting to discuss his grievances.

He went and never returned.

His wife called his family to inform them that their son had died from asthma complications and that he drove himself to the hospital where he died. There was even a death certificate to that effect.

He was buried in February 2022. However, his family suspected foul play and started digging. Law enforcement got involved, DSS got involved, his corpse was exhumed, arrests were made, and the discoveries were mind boggling.

First, on his corpse, they discovered a deep cut below his left eye. There were bruises on his body, and there were marks on his wrists and ankles, suggesting that he was tied up.

An autopsy was conducted, and it was discovered that he didn’t die of asthma. He was poisoned, what they call Otapiapia.

It would seem like he was tied up, beaten, and forced to ingest the Otapiapia, and they stood and watched him die a slow, painful death.

While all this was happening, his wife was in Calabar, allegedly exchanging calls with her sister, her mother, and her brother, who were in the house when Ikoiwak came.

It was his mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and others who did the dirty deed.

After his wife had confirmed his death, she called Reverend Father Maurice Mbeke. Yup, the same one. In fact, investigations revealed that she and Father Mbeke had had multiple phone conversations on the 19th, the day Ikoiwak was to travel to see his in-laws.

Father Mbeke then called Reverend Father Gabriel Ekong, the Administrator of St Luke’s Hospital, to arrange a forged death certificate. Father Ekong then instructed Doctor Imoh Johnson to prepare the death certificate, stating that he treated Ikoiwak for asthma complications, but he didn’t make it.

Then Ikoiwak’s in-laws went and dropped his corpse at St. Luke’s Hospital. That’s when his wife made the call to his relatives.

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It was last month that the Court passed sentences on all those involved in the death of Godwin Ikoiwak.

The sentences bother me, especially as I know what the law prescribes for such offences:

• Wife – Guilty of Accessory to Murder – 2 years imprisonment

• Mother-in-law – Guilty of Murder – 10 years imprisonment

• Sister-in-law – Guilty of Murder – 10 years imprisonment

• Dr. Imoh Johnson – Guilty of Falsifying Records as Accessory – 2 years imprisonment

• Father Gabriel Ekong – Guilty of Falsifying Records as Accessory – 4 years imprisonment

The Judge noted the reduced sentences were influenced by defendants being first-time offenders, advanced age (mother-in-law), and a young baby for the sister-in-law.

Interestingly, Father Maurice Mbeke was not charged at all.

Thankfully, the State has indicated it will appeal, as it should. Because honestly, I don’t even know what to say about these sentences. An appeal is the right step, and we keep our fingers crossed.

Let me know your thoughts.

©️ @ Josh IJ Ogbeide

𝗔 𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗟𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗦 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗡

The cabals in the Villa have succeeded in pushing the VP to the wall. They may be ignorant of the magnifying tendency of this war.

He logically declared cold war and willing to give this administration the last straw that will break the camel back. The regrouping will surpass those of Elrufai secretly.

I wish to advise the President and his chicken cabinet to tolerate the VP and manage this call for total war of clash of interest. If not, the heat will consume everything left and will destroy the foundation like a hurricane. In fact, there is storm coming....

The backlash of feelings of betrayal by the VP will destabilise the APC at this trying times, if the war becomes interesting and exacerbated. I hope they will not start reacting now. The VP had tolerated enough and had been patient for two years. Let the President tolerate him as well for two years or the whole table will scatter...

What the VP is calling for is tantamount to cold war and ready for class suicide. He is ready to join forces and has probably established a formidable force that will consume all of them behind the scene. Remember he is not stupid but intelligent. He is drunkard but master of the game in his own right. He is outspoken not a subservient and lackey.

The body language has unveiled danger ahead, it will be more hazardous to APC than what Elrufai is doing at the moment. If Tinubu mistakenly attack him verbally or his Maga dogs , believe you me, he will render them useless and will make them politically perishable goods not to be sold and purchased by voters in the polling units, on the election day. Kashim Shettima is another Elrufai if you look for their troubles you will receive equal reaction with bonus like the Irani Military

Not only the VP felt betrayed. Everyone who subscribed to the kangaroo idea of "Muslim-Muslim Ticket" to win the last election will join the VP in this retaliation move and journey of no return to the VILLA.

The true colour will manifest and the real situation will be exposed. Many Governors and their Deputies will start open battles and Many senators will start attacking their leadership.

By the time old and young politicians start to play WIKE style of politicking Mr President and some Governors will have their foundation swept away but unknowingly living in a fools paradise. What a paradigm shift!

Many Yorubas are not happy with how Elrufai was dumped by Tinubu because they celebrated and they knew how he smuggled him into the Aso rock but they refused to come out to condemn it because of sentiments. Now, the forces against Tinubu's ambition is accumulating day by day and worsening every single day. This is very dangerous for his ambition.

Crises may soon start in Lagos openly on who to succeed the Governor.

Having the VP and his camp revolting against the system has left the chances of winning next election near impossible. There are many Governors and Senators that will support him and go with him openly and secretly before 2027.

With what happened to Elrufai and Ganduje where can Tinubu find reliable and genuine sacrifices from Northern politicians again? Who will TRUST Mr President again? Who will not learn from their mistakes?

Elrufai took the bullet and biggest risk for Tinubu. He sacrificed his relationships with his mentors and looked down upon the political gladiators in the North and the entire military generals. He challenged FPMB and the system. However, when betrayed he went round and apologized. As it is today , he vowed to remove him from the Villa but "big fools" cannot see and are yet to see the possibility.

Ganduje became a puppet to Tinubu all because of his ambition. He relocated to Tinubu's house throughout the period. He attacked FPMB for the seek of Tinubu and now He has been dusted out ignominiously.

Imagine an experienced administrator, academician, Governor, National party Chairman and national figure will now be taking orders from ordinary Festus who cannot mobilize his state for Tinubu. Am telling you both the VP and Ganduje will team up with Elrufai and take Tinubu and his cabals off balance surreptitiously. I trust my Northern guys .

Worse still, the VP succeeded in telling Nigerians that he is not happy with the system of Zero tolerance to opposition and cracking down on critiques by the administration. This is a great slap that must be tolerated and managed by Mr President or else the whole secret will be exposed.

He has finally opened the "Can of worms" by systematically acknowledging the corruption in the Legislative council and how the judiciary have become a rubber stamp. In conclusion, the VP has officially revealed to us that power drunkardness and lack of direction is the order of the day. Me seems interesting days ahead.

Recently the Governor of Borno has come out to say no Kashim no APC. Do you know that out of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria , North-East Governors' forum is the most united and ideological? They will work as team to fight those against the Kashim Shettima's joint ticket.

I may agree with those that are saying Tinubu is not incharge of his administration or what his former Deputy Governor, Ambode, Bode Gorge and others are saying is near possible and sacrosanct ( betrayal tendencies).

Whether you like it or not, the North decides the political fate of every Future President politically.

The game have just started. Keep your fingers crossed 🤞

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