₦airaland Forum

AMINDA:
Tribalism and hypocrisy is the only reason why you celebrate one Zack Adedeji for becoming the richest man in Oyo overnight but also celebrate one Malami's civil asset forfeiture and call him corrupt. Tinubu is the first president to throw morality out of the window and doesn't even pretend to be fair. He would have excelled more as the Premier of the Western region than as president of a diverse Nigeria.

Which politician isn't a thief,how's the one that used his state resources to sustain his bank claiming he was saving it for them how is he different from abacha or the tinubu you are pointing at right now or the one that dashed off our national assets to his friends and cronies......how are they all different from each other,but the problem with you guys is your perchance for finger pointing while ignoring the other four pointing back at you.....anyone who has been found with our commonwealth in his pocket should be hounded in prison.

AMINDA:
They are all proxies of Adelabu. Seyi Makinde is fully on ground in Oyo State. Contrary to what most snake oil merchants say, Oyo APC is not united. Since Tinubu has connived with an outsider (Wike) to humiliate and undermine Seyi in his own state and party (PDP), Seyi will be handing out a few lessons soon.

The disunity in the apc has always been there before makinde became gov,it has nothing to do with him the egos in that party are to gargantuan to put under control and it has worked to makinde's advantage on both occasions.
If adelabu,folarin,ladoja and the 3rd force within the party can unite and come together, seyi is a gonner.

Mathewrichard99:
I really sympathize with the girl. She's making a big mistake that would make her cry tomorrow probably cos of this boy's money. This boy ain't mature one bit and less of a man..... Jarvis is smarter and more intelligent...Wondering what's physically attractive to the girl other than this boy's money........

Wish them well first amd pray they succeed........if they don't there is nothing special ,life will go on.......also don't stereotype jarvis as the one benefitting the most,this is a win win balanced marriage for both of them,parvis brand can stand alone and attract her own value also ,jarvis added value to the peller himself and opened up another follower segment he couldn't have reached on his own......they are both important to each other's brand which is good for business but it will hurt peller more if they were to split now.

So what do we do with this news.....will this also make nigeria turn to dubai in 4 years as he promised?

Wasn't it same atiku that was criticising the process that led to her emergence and accusing tinubu of holding primordial interest in the process......same atiku is doing a 360 to congratulate the winner.......how more flippant can a man who wants to be president be?

Never ever in your life as a man believe any woman will be with you till the end,even romeo and juliet nah fantasy,it wasn't real......that gender is the most volatile,emotionaly unstable and enigmatic specie God ever created......any woman can change at any time and with every time.

Never ever as a man be emotionally dependent on any woman.

Never ever trust any woman and you must always fear them,always fear them,tbey may seem weaker but they are highest prey of men on earth no other creature made by God has killed as many men as those daughters of eve.

If God gives you the privilege to have an extra tyre pls do,the major reason women get angry when you cheat is because they want to entirely encapsulate your soul so you will be subject to their whim,never allow them........its always ends in regret.

Love isnt real,its transient and can move with the wind at any given time....for evry strick of love a woman throws your way,she is deriving double the returns of her effort.

Marriage only benefits that gender and its an absolute loss generating business for the man......its great to get married but never let your gaurd down,its great to fall in love but never go for the blind version.

Obi keeps proving to us what a bad president he will make......common Isaacs fayose made noise yesterday, obi ran to him immediately with cameras to famz him,Isaacs with no electoral value but I understand his deep pockets will be useful for the campaigns,now imagine a Nigerian presidency with the likes of mama pee,aisha yesufu and that buffoon that calls himself.....don't even know his name,that wears a beret all the time with white tee shirt .

Obi lacks the leadership character a country like Nigeria needs,he is very unappealing in his demeanour and totally obtuse in his commentaries,even members of his family dont believe in his ambition, that tells you alot about the kind of person he is.,where is his political team when he was gov,tinubu still has 90% of his around him and visible and same for atiku, he still has his core loyalists who had been with him since PDM days who still believe in his abilities but look at obi,he keeps changing his inner circle like a baby changing diapers.

mrvitalis:
There seems to be a fundamental lack of understanding regarding how government operations, fiscal policies, and revenue challenges directly impact the average citizen.

In Nigeria, our idea of a "good governor" or leader is simply someone who builds roads, bridges, and rail lines. We rarely stop to ask if these massive projects are actually economically viable.

Take the Lagos-Ibadan rail line as a prime example. It cost roughly $900 million, funded almost entirely by borrowed money. Look at the reality of that investment:
It doesn’t even generate 20% of its own daily running costs.
The interest alone costs taxpayers about $45 million every single year.
It created fewer than 3,000 permanent jobs—all of which are ultimately net-negative contributors to our GDP because the system relies on heavy subsidies to survive.
Sure, it’s a nice project. The stations are beautiful and the rides are smooth. But we have to look at the true cost.

Don't get me wrong—if Nigeria had a $900 million surplus after handling our debt servicing and recurrent expenditures, and the government chose to build this rail line, I wouldn't argue against it. But that is not our reality.

For a nation whose total revenue cannot even cover its debt servicing and recurring expenses, borrowing more money just so a president can showcase a "legacy project" isn't leadership—it is fiscal recklessness. It actively worsens our economic crisis.

Here is the bottom line: You should only ever use borrowed funds to directly increase national revenue, or, at the absolute worst, to keep essential government operations from collapsing.
So, how do you actually increase national revenue? You do it by expanding the tax base. How do you expand the tax base? By making your citizens wealthier so they can afford to pay taxes. How do you make people wealthier? By creating high-paying, sustainable jobs.
And how do you trigger that job creation? By channeling credit where it matters: providing low-interest loans to major sector leaders and soft loans to new, innovative entrepreneurs. That is what foreign loans should be used for—not just pouring concrete into roads and bridges.
Imagine if the ₦650 billion spent on the Second Niger Bridge had been injected directly as capital into the manufacturers in Onitsha instead. Those businesses would have:
Repied the loans with interest.
Generated enough new tax revenue for the government to eventually build the bridge out of pocket.
Created massive, sustainable employment across the region.
Instead, we have a bridge, but an economy that is suffocating. What exactly is our issue?

What happened to anchor borrowers under GEJ,tradermoni under buhari ,what has happened to all the social intervention programs by various govts at all levels.......hundreds of brand new buses were given out by the ondo state govt to transporters,within 2 yrs not one single sign of those buses exists.

Free CNG kits were issued to these same people to help ameliorate the shocks of the subsidy removal on transport cost,same guys jerked up fares the very next day the got the kits thereby defeating the major purpose of the initiative.

No govt gives freely to people without accountability and tbat is a missing reality in our psyche as a people.......govt is helping so many businesses in forms of waivers,tax credits etc dangote refinery wouldn't have happened without these,shell BP just got waivers for bonga field,MTN,airtel all got same to grow to where they are today but it only seems sustainable in the big business circles anything cascaded down beyond that has always been a failure.

mrvitalis:
APC took the political class, they are politicians what do you expect

But the technocrats you sacked because you could to control them and replaced them with political tools who are loyal

Boom $575 billion dollars GDP is $220 billion GDP

I know u still don’t get it sha

So if you had an interview question and you were asked the reason why Nigeria"s GDP reduced under this govt.......the simole answe you will put down is you hate tinubu.......if anyone cannot understand what caused it,it's obvious you don't even understand what GDP is,how it's computed and what its used for.......there are countries with less GDP than Nigeria but with higher living standards......when the GDP was higher what did tou achieve?

Taraba state and the incapacitating of their politicians, same way they semobilised danbaba suntai with his ill fated air craft that crashed while he was a seating gov now the incumbent deputy gov......taraba is one amazing state with so many peculiarities

What nonsense is this from this govt,this is highly unacceptable and a waste of public funds, that road was gulped enough billions already and it's still in good shape as its barely new,all that will be needed is concise maintenance work to keep it in proper shape.

PBAT should shelve this nonsensical idea and direct the funds to other needed social amenities or other roads that equally needs to be built.

PBAT till 31!!

brain54:
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240 million dollars in '74 was a lot of money.


What happened is that we had a bunch of lazy, clueless and rudderless leadership since then.


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Your father,my father and his father inclusive.....the second post independence generation wrecked this country with nothing left for thise coming behind......I tell any man above 60 I meet when tbey keep criticising tinubu and I tell them that their generation wrecked this country........Nigeria was on a far higher trajectory than China and most of Asia as at 1970 to put it in better perspective even UAE and some eastern European countries.......all that resources and ability was wasted by that generation which the effects we are still suffering today.

writetopoka:
Whoever this brodamike or whatever his name is an unknown personality and must have been paid for this stint.

He forgot that others were paid previously but couldn't succeed. Infact most of them who tried are facing one issue or the other.

Typical obidient, everyone is being paid ,just say anything wrong about obi,you are being paid like obi is a very perfect man that fell from heaven and can never be wrong........never seen a more stoic mob like obidients.

sucess001:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/07/16/appeal-court-nullifies-order-halting-nba-election-says-agf-cannot-issue-directives-to-courts/

And what has this got to do with tinubu or anything, the agf is even a respondent and the court didn't grant the relief being sort by the plaintiff.

sucess001:
Use your brains if you have one.

He has evidence. It's in the open. If you were intelligent enough to google and research what he is saying you would know

Can you pls share the evidence you have,if you can't, then you aren't worth any further reply.

Helinuse:
You came here sounding so angry.
Notice that you couldn't deny what I said.
You instead went to whataboutism.

Why should i bother about irelevances and beer parlour news!!

anonimi:
Atiku is going to do what he did with Obasanjo for the foundation that gave us 16 years of PDP prosperity, peace, security, cheap petrol, cheap dollars, less debt burden, low unemployment etc.

What part of these better things are you allergic to

Do we need mentioning the biggest heist on our national assets by siphoning state interests to personal interests......not forgetting PTDF your principal superintended himself,how about $16b power sector probe under his govt........you had better go and sit down somewhere and don't let us even start with atiku matter.

Helinuse:
Prior to 2015, it was not only Tinubu's criticism of Goodluck Jonathan.
He and his APC cohorts were actually importing jihaddists into the country for elections.



Now common talk, una dey shed teears.

Where was your atiku then,ADC abi? Selective amnesia is an ill wind that bears no good.......go get a life dude!!

onuman:
A vehicle breaks down and obstructs parts, or all, of the lanes of a road. It stays like that for days. Perhaps more vehicles hit the ststionery vehicle at night. Deaths and injuries result.

What then is FRSC established for if FRSC can't remove obstruction on the road?

Annoying part is they even lurk around bad sections of the roads where tbey will be able to effectively prey on victims,instead of controlling traffic or putting road signs,that one no concern them,nah to catch you cari u go office dem dey or you settle for road and continue your journey no matter your offence.

MrPresident1:
You have no data on the most corrupt or redundant. The FRSC has reduced carnage on our roads. That is a fact.

Stop making sweeping generalised basesless staments without concrete facts and statistics

Big fat lie from your mouth......frsc is working and we still have all those death boxes as trucks,overloading is still very rampant,rickety vehicles still fill our roads......show me one country that has a special group of touts in uniform whose only job is to be extorting motorist daily.......Monday to Sunday they're on the roads, even police,VIO,lastma etc get breaking and closing time but road safety are always on the road looking for who to extort.

onuman:
If a vehicle fails and blocks a road, it can remain there for days and nights until the owner finds a means to remove the vehicle.
So what else is keeping safe the road if FRSC can't quickly remove obstruction from the road?

Which obstruction does frsc remove......you have state traffic management agencies like lastma,trace,EDSTMA etc,you also have the police which still has a traffic unit in every state...... FRSC standing on the roads obstructing free movement is an aberration under the law.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Soludo can't give tinubu 10percent in Anambra,SE have a mind of their own,they don't follow Governors,if you think it's Governors that determine votes in SE.We only support Apga for Governorship election,when it comes to Presidential and Senatorial elections,Obi sweeps the entire votes. Obi would sweep SE and SS cos Ijaws see NDC as their own party .Obi will do well in the North cos of kwankwanso as opposed to Datti. No Buhari to support tinubu in the North again to get his over 5m votes he got in 2023

In your myopic mind,tinubu cant get 10% in anambra because he is up and against an igbo man but your obi can win every other region.....you are a clown,I swear!!

In your uninformed mind,the SS is made up of only izons abi? Even bayelsa where NDC comes from,dickson is fighting for his senate ticket which is a plus for obi in his senatorial district and thats all he can offer from that state,I just got back from bayelsa and I know what I saw.

Streetinvestor2:
Yes the SE will vote the drug baron because of soludo for putting Kanu in prison and all his government is doing to SE people in lagos. You believe they don't have sense and Soludo son is dancing shame unto all of them

You see the problem with you obidients is your myopic sentimentalism,your inability to detach emotions from objectivism is your greatest flaws,thats why you always get shorter end of the stick in politics.

Nobody has said tinubu will win the SE just the same way obi can't win the SW or anywhere outside his region......but what is certain is that apc will get 25% spread across all the 5 states, thats being very conservative, he will still do 30 to 40 % in 1 or 2 states over there.

aswani:
South East votes seriously back in play for APC.

Tinubu will clear minimum 25% in the entire SE states guaranteed......he isn't looking to defeat obi in his home turf,and the strategy is how to get as much out of there as possible.....if soludo can give him this, soludo would have delivered a job well done.......its obi and his marauding mob that keeps deceiving themselves they will defeat every other candidate across all the regions.

With the guaranteed 25%,what ever margin between him and obi in the SE will be conveniently swallowed up by his SW votes which is the second largest voting bloc......the battle ground is the SS and obi can only dream of repeating his 23 fluke.

Anywhere atiku wins in the north,tinubu will come a close second but I dont see atiku doing any magic in the entire south which to an avid political watcher bares him no good at all and puts tinubu in a very comfortable position.

NC xtian votes obi got in 23 has already been bitten deep into by the apc and most of the edge he had are being effectively checkmated or neutralised.

APC is still very strong in the north and what ever margin atiku has over tinubu in the north will be canceled out by the expected poor showing of the former vp in the south and NC

Validated:
The Nigerian jobless Senate has passed a bi banning hiking, preaching and others in commercial buses. A very good Bill I must say, however, when are they going to van motor park touts?

We will get to them when the economy further stabilises and govt can sort alternative jobs for them......if you ban agbero today, do yiu know how many people you will directly put out of jobs? Food sellers,all those sachet alcohol sellers and agbo hawkers,you may demean the trade all you want but its a major means of livelihood for thousands including petty traders,artisans etc......the agbero economy is a real one if you look at it and ending it abruptly will throw up a lot of unintended immediate consequences.

The prayer merchants on the other hand add no meaningful value to the economy ,they pay mo tax and are unregulated.

Not possible," abia is not lagos"........imagine abia was a low lieing coastal state like lagos and half that populated......the entire state wwould be Atlantis by now.

SC will upturn this judgement, any politician that because of this decamp is doing so at his or her own peril......INEC has regulatory powers given to it by the constitution.......its funny how those in support of this agree the courts can meddle in INec'd regulatory powers while the same courts cant meddle in party infractions on Inec's powers and the fundamental rights of their members.

I noh be lawyer o! IMHO!!

nairalanda1:
Bringing back subsidy from January 1 2026 would have cost the government ₦38 trillion to ₦52 trillion this year.

7.1 trillion is too small for subsidy costs if there was a subsidy being paid

Modified

Basically, Oseni was referring to the partial subsidy (which government lied about) that was paid between October 2023 and april 2024. (I of course saw what was happening and was amused by the lies. The figures were even public knowledge back then).

What pisses people off is that the subsides did nothing to reduce oil prices . Of course it won't To really reduce oil prices, government would have had to pay far more than that and over a longer period of time.

As far as we know, no subsidy has been paid since may 2024, and if government has been doing it since then, may the gods have mercy on us, because our debt would eventually rise to levels not seen in anyone's lifetimes.



Modifed 2

People think that a subsidy coming back at that time would have reduced prices to N200 or less. That;s not how it works.

Someone posted an article without a link so anyone could verify on their own,isnt the intent of the OP already clear,to mislead,misinform and propagate puerile propaganda.

Linzo:
Sorry ooo your failure is a goner and a new Nigeria is coming. All the corrupt, and evil ones including the judiciary, and politicians and their benefactors will be thrown that jail. So if you are among them then be preparing

It shows how limited you are in experience or you are too pedestrian in mindset to believe what you just typed.......is that the purile lies you guys keep indoctrinating yourselves with in those your WhatsApp cells......the putrid air in that place must be unbearable. " Peter obi will end corruption including judiciary and politicians" better move to the joke section.

Linzo:
It's a pity that by now only you and your self hoodwinked ones like you still believe their someone out there in the north that will rig for Tinubu, because of course no sane Nigerian will ever vote BAT

And the whole Nigeria will vote for ur obi,right? Just save enough tears for 27!!

Always accusing without facts,everything now his tinubu,if you are no longer getting morning wood,nah tinubu cos am......Mr atiku what are you going to do about subsidy,the naira value,coastal road and the Sokoto-Badagry road,state police,LG autonomy etc?