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Foreign Affairs › Re: A Message To Donald Trump by malali: 4:25am On Nov 04, 2025

This post above was written by a comedian skit content creator.

Politics › Re: Gunmen Kidnap Consultant Neurosurgeon In Anambra by malali: 10:29am On Nov 03, 2025*

There is a new kind of war that's being fought now

A whole government can be psychologically kidnapped (The USA is trying to kidnap Tinubu's government)

Nigeria forefront for Palestine support is now being punished

The audacity of Nigeria to control the energy of the whole continent and edging into the world vis a vis Dangote refinery.

The greatest supplier of free educated human labor in the world (No other country provides culturally assimilable workers who are at the very least graduates into the USA.)

They come in and are enslaved with 30 year mortgages, buying homes at 300k USD only to end up paying 1 million USD with life time real estate taxes and maintenance. You are going to do 700k of free work before they allow you purchase a house for 300k. For those of you who understand the American taxes. The tax on 1 million is at least 250k from your income,because your mortgage is after tax. So to own a house of 300k in 30years.
1-You will pay 300k
2-You will pay 700k in compound mortgage interest to the bank
3-You will pay income tax of 250k to the government from the paycheck used to pay the mortgage.
4-So you are allowed to buy a house of 300k. If you pay the cost of 300k (house price) plus 950k (cost of mortgage interest and income tax)
5-The above calculations do not include property tax and Homeowners association and maintenance of anything that needs to be fixed and utilities, which you will pay for life.These lifetime values also increase yearly.

The media rhetoric against Nigeria by the USA is Online Guerilla warfare. The government is fighting a lot of people under this guise, most importantly the Israeli Zionist.(Anytime a Nigerian said free palestine, their response was what about the genocide going on in Nigeria,all their chat-bots were programmed to give this answer !!" )

There are a lot of Paid none state actors and some people are just doing it for fun. The USA has more than enough problems on their plate for them to be attending to Nigeria's problem from across the world.

Its funny the country accused globally of genocide Israel/USA is turning around to accuse Nigeria of genocide and threatening to come in right away and take action. No mention of USA security council, No mention of international criminal court.

Nada !! Zilch Just we are coming with B2 Bombers.

This is some Sabinus kind of skit.

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Politics › Re: Borrowing After Subsidy Removal Is Right For Projects Wrong For Subsidy Payments by malali: 10:47pm On Oct 31, 2025

psalmsjob:
My reply to this; Emir Sanusi Cautions Tinubu: Continuous Borrowing After Subsidy Removal Is Wrong:

I didn't read the post just the headline and that's enough for me to know he's wrong about borrowing even after subsidy removal....

What is wrong is borrowing money to pay subsidy not the borrowing or being in debt when what you do with the money you borrow is what matters.

The rich always borrow money for big project even when they have their own money..... It's cheaper to borrow money for capital projects while we use igr to pay for recurrent expenditures.

Tinubu, God bless him is not borrowing money to make subsidy payments or sell our crude oil in advance to pay subsidy debt backlog like past presidents but he is borrowing to build project and using current oil money to settle both domestic and foreign debts.

It's simple economics to understand but it's not so simple to understand when you want to criticize for the sake of it or with bad belly.

It's not only the courage to remove subsidy that is required but to know what to do with the money saved or money gotten back.... Peter Obi lacks both courage or intellect to do both.

Peter obi's economics policy is to keep state money in a bank account where he has shareholdings.... Similar to what that servant who Jesus spoke parable about hiding his money in the ground until his master returns to give him the same money back. That's why he was shouting the amount of money he left behind after 8 years as if time wasted can be equated with the money he kept in the bank doing nothing with it a single nursery primary school he didn't build for 8 years in Anambra, road he did build but bought Jeep SUV for all Igwe in Anambra about 450 of them to buy or pay for their loyalty for his reelection.

What you are saying is not true. First of all no one mentioned Peter Obi in the article, we are not all fools. Dont ascribe anyone mentioning the obvious to Peter Obi. Some of us will never vote Peter Obi but we still disagree with Tinubu's policy a 100%.

Asiwaju is borrowing money to service the debts, the overhead on this government is the largest ever. When you see the likes of Tinubu's son and Wike's Son following them on official missions. how do you think the country pays. We are paying for their 5 star hotels trips with borrowed money !! Money that should have subsidized Nigerians Life.

Not a single revenue generating or labor hiring project enough to impact the lives of 100,000 thousand Nigerians can be boasted despite the trillions of dollars in loans. Dont be blind in loyalty. Stand back and look inwards. We are heading for the worst debt crisis we will ever have. The Oil prices are falling everyday.

Politics › Re: Emir Sanusi Cautions Tinubu: Continuous Borrowing After Subsidy Removal Is Wrong by malali(op): 12:43pm On Oct 31, 2025

Kewekubosineh:
Malali, Find out your source of information.

Your Take on US social policy is not correct.

Re-check and come back to Tell us the Truth. Not the lies bandied in the write up.

When you call someone a liar, you bring the receipts.
You state the facts, show your sources, and let the audience judge who’s actually standing on truth.

But when someone screams “liar!” then disappears, we already know where the dishonesty lives.

If you can’t back your mouth with evidence, don’t label people.

Simple. Clear. Case closed.

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Politics › Re: Emir Sanusi Cautions Tinubu: Continuous Borrowing After Subsidy Removal Is Wrong by malali(op): 7:55am On Oct 31, 2025

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

Stop comparing looting to USA-style social infrastructure. Let’s be clear:

1. In the USA, unemployment benefits exist for those actively looking for work but unable to find a job.
2. Citizens who cannot afford housing have Section 8 and other public accommodation support.
3. People who become disabled and cannot work receive disability benefits.
4. Social Security ensures that anyone who has worked until ~62 receives a basic income, regardless of private pensions.
5. Every child gets free schooling up to high school graduation.
6. Underserved children have access to healthcare if their parents cannot afford it.
7. Children from low-income families receive food vouchers to ensure they are fed.

Now look at Nigeria. We have mountains of debt, but what is it financing? Which of these fundamental social supports does Tinubu’s administration provide with all the money borrowed?

Debt in Nigeria is not building social safety nets, infrastructure for human capital, or sustainable welfare. Instead, it seems to prop up a bloated government, subsidies that barely reach the intended people, and a political class focused on optics rather than outcomes.

The question is blunt: why borrow so heavily when none of the systems that make a society humane, productive, and resilient are in place?

Debt without social investment is not development; it’s a trap, and we are all paying for it.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: 16-year-old Terrorist Released In Gaza Deal Arrested For Plotting Terror Attack by malali: 4:58am On Oct 31, 2025

Believing liars is joining their delusion.

#FreePalestine

Nobody puts explosives in those joint pipes.

Those plumbing joints are used because they are very strong.

If you believe the above picture you will believe anything.

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Politics › Re: Vice Admiral Idi Abbas Takes Over As The 23rd Indigenous Chief Of Naval Staff by malali: 4:44am On Oct 31, 2025

jogsman01:
Thought I read Admiral Ibas

No be only Ibas

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Politics › Re: Emir Sanusi Cautions Tinubu: Continuous Borrowing After Subsidy Removal Is Wrong by malali(op): 4:26am On Oct 31, 2025*

Yet even though the federal government now has more fiscal space by not paying subsidies, what we are seeing is more borrowing, not less. That contradiction strikes at the core: the problem was not simply the subsidy. The problem is how government spends and borrows.

Why is it that, despite freeing up money from subsidies, the government still keeps filling the debt pot? Why are we still seeing large borrowings while promises of jobs, agricultural revolutions and domestic manufacturing remain un-fulfilled?

Meanwhile:
• We are not seeing meaningful growth in Nigerian manufacturing, despite having vast arable land and young labour.
• Oil prices are stuck in the US$50s per barrel, so there is no windfall there to magically solve everything.
• The only thing holding up the economy’s illusion of stability is borrowing and currency/FX buffers, not a fundamentally transformed production base.

What this suggests is that the real challenge is governance: institutional discipline, transparent spending, reducing bloat in government, and avoiding the trap of turning reform optics into mere slogans. If you fill one hole (subsidy) but dig another (uncontrolled borrowing + bloated expenditure), you haven’t moved forward, you’ve just redirected the problem.

The many ministers, convoys, bureaucratic overheads, the creeping idea of “political dynasty” or “monarchy by another name” (i.e., Tinubu-and-sons or wike-and-sons), all this adds to the sense that the architecture of public service is drifting back into degeneracy. It’s worse than a simple budget item: it’s a governance culture issue.

The promise of 2027 elections should not become the excuse for not doing the work now. The real test is: what has ordinary Nigerians’ lives improved by, three years in? Are more people employed? Are we producing ourselves instead of importing rice? Are anti-corruption cases visible and credible?

Reform is not simply removing an unsustainable subsidy. Reform is pairing that with fiscal discipline, institutional reform, production-led growth, and transparent governance. Until then, savings from subsidy removal will keep leaking away into borrowing and inefficiency, and the recovery will remain more illusion than reality.

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Politics › Emir Sanusi Cautions Tinubu: Continuous Borrowing After Subsidy Removal Is Wrong by malali(op): 4:25am On Oct 31, 2025

The 16th Emir of Kano and former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Muhammadu Sanusi II, has faulted President Bola Tinubu’s administration for resorting to massive borrowing despite the removal of petrol subsidy, a policy that was expected to boost government revenue.

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the Oxford Global Think Tank Leadership Conference and Book Launch, Sanusi questioned the logic behind continuous borrowings when, according to him, “the government should have more fiscal space” after ending the costly fuel subsidy regime.

While commending the Tinubu administration for removing fuel subsidy and unifying Nigeria’s multiple exchange rates, measures he described as “painful but necessary”, the outspoken emir wondered why the fiscal discipline expected from such reforms has yet to reflect in national spending priorities.

He, however, cautioned that the reforms would fail unless matched with fiscal discipline and transparent spending.

“If you stop paying subsidies but continue borrowing more, it means you’ve filled one hole only to dig another. The real challenge now is the quality of government spending and the management of the revenues saved,” he said.

Sanusi, who served as CBN governor between 2009 and 2014, said Nigeria’s current economic woes were the consequence of years of policy inconsistency and populist politics.

“In 2012, we warned that the subsidy was unsustainable, but politics took over. Now, the same people who led protests against it have inherited the problem and had no choice but to do the right thing,” he said.

He applauded the professionalism of the current economic team for the steps taken to stabilise inflation and reduce exchange rate volatility, but insisted that government waste must be urgently curtailed.

Questioning the government expenditure, he asked: “Why do we need 48 ministers? Why do we need convoys of vehicles? Why are we still borrowing even after removing subsidies? If you fill one hole, why dig another?

“This government needs to look at institutions, transparency and how money is being used at all levels. Because if you keep earning more and spending badly, you’ll undo every gain made.

“We have too many sycophants in government. You sit in a meeting, and someone begins with, ‘Mr. President, I thank you for your leadership; God has blessed Nigeria by making you our leader.’ By the time they finish the praise-singing that is the advice the president takes.

“However, people like me that will say ‘Mr. President, this is wrong’ are branded enemies. So, when leaders surround themselves with praise-singers, they never get good advice.

“That is why people like Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede and myself often end up being enemies of the state because people don’t like hearing bad news.

“We told Buhari everything — about printing money, waste, exchange rates, and subsidy— but each time, it was seen as a personal attack. Those around him convinced him we were enemies. Leaders must begin to ask: who do I surround myself with?

“And ministers should know — it’s not to your benefit to become a praise-singer. You debase yourself when you do that.”

Speaking on why the Jonathan government could not remove the fuel subsidy, Sanusi said: “The only reason the government compromised then was Boko Haram. There were thousands of Nigerians on the streets in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna and there were suicide bombers in the country. I told them, if one of these bombers explodes among protesters, we’d have 200 corpses; it won’t be about subsidy anymore.

“So, I must give President Jonathan credit. He was determined to do it, but at the end of the day, the compromise was made to save lives.”

Sanusi said that in 2012, “We were in a situation where we had what we called a hedge — not a subsidy. You see, a subsidy means the government pays a percentage of the price. But what we had was what, in risk management, you call a naked hedge, the worst possible derivative you can have. You will not pay more than X amount per litre of petrol, no matter what happens.

“So when oil prices rose from $40 to $140, the federal government paid the difference. When exchange rates moved from N155 to N300, the government paid the difference. When interest rates moved from 5 per cent to 15 per cent, the government paid the difference.

“All those costs — crude, refining, transportation, interest — were absorbed by the government. We moved from using revenues to pay subsidies, to borrowing money to pay subsidies, to borrowing money to pay interest on the borrowed money. We became bankrupt."

Sources:

https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/29/emir-sanusi-cautions-tinubu-govt-continuous-borrowing-after-subsidy-removal-wrong

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Politics › Re: Tinubu sees us as customers not citizens, he will tax d air we breathe - Adebayo by malali: 10:58pm On Oct 30, 2025*

Tinubu, campaigned as the change-agent, the man who would deliver jobs, build industry and empower citizens. Two years in, the evidence suggests something very different.

• You promised job creation at scale, yet there is no credible proof that you’ve generated 10,000 jobs in each state of the federation.

• You scrapped fuel- and forex-subsidies, on the face of it fiscal discipline. But you replaced them not with a social safety net, not with robust manufacturing or agriculture jobs, but with heavier borrowing. In two years you’ve borrowed more than your predecessor did in eight.

• While millions of Nigerians are vulnerable, elderly, disabled, unemployed, farming in marginal zones, you’ve offered no meaningful national welfare programme. Instead you’re moving toward new taxes: first the petroleum import duty, next perhaps the “oxygen tax.”

• You say you want to build local refining and food security. Yet Nigeria still imports large volumes of rice, despite billions spent on tractors and infrastructure. The white-elephant projects are not delivering harvests, factories or jobs, only dollar embezzling contracts to cronies.

• You seem to be applying a model borrowed from the U.S., but the USA provided cheaper fuel(compared to USA minimum wage), rent stabilisation, robust welfare, farm subsidies, but you’re doing so without the safety net provided by the USA governments, institutional base, tax-base or public-service architecture to make it work. That mismatch is hurting citizens while finances implode.

• The legislature is silent. Opposition is pressured. The military is reshuffled. All signs point not to citizen empowerment but consolidation of power and fiscal squeeze.

Tinubu, you must choose: Are you leading a government of growth, investment and people? Or a government of extraction, borrowing and tax burdens? Because right now the latter is unfolding, and the citizens are paying the price.

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Politics › Re: IMF Warns Nigeria Of Debt And Oil And Revenue Risks by malali: 9:39pm On Oct 30, 2025

There are serious macro-concerns ahead. Crude prices have fallen toward the 60-dollar-per-barrel range, while the national budget was built on a 75-dollar benchmark. That mismatch threatens fiscal stability.

Meanwhile, significant public borrowing continues to fund legacy-style capital projects that, so far, are not translating into meaningful revenue-producing capacity or broad employment gains. Despite substantial spending, we are still importing essential goods such as rice, even with large-scale agricultural potential in regions like Niger State. Equipment purchases alone do not equal production without strategy, execution, and industrial incentives.

My earlier optimism in the administration has shifted. Current economic policy appears reactive, subsidy structures are opaque, and external institutions like the IMF are signaling concern. If this trajectory persists, we risk emerging with more debt and limited structural improvement.

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Politics › Re: Life Gradually Returns to deserted Igbo Communities Formerly Occupied by Gunmen by malali: 10:11am On Oct 29, 2025

arantess:
are you the same malali or an imposter?

Depends on who is asking ......Sometimes its the real me, sometimes its AI
And if its the government I am just a content creator.

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Politics › Re: CIA May Step In If Anything Bad Happens To Nnamdi Kanu — Analysts Warns Tinubu by malali: 10:15am On Oct 25, 2025

This is finally turning into real comedy and content creation

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Politics › Re: **BREAKING NEWS:** *aisha Buhari Must Testify In Court — Nnamdi Kanu Insists, Na by malali: 6:35am On Oct 25, 2025

Does he want Abacha to testify too ?

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Politics › Re: IMF World Economic Outlook Growth Projections For 2025 by malali: 6:32am On Oct 25, 2025*

Almunjid:
It's surprising to see so much hatred for your home country simply because your preferred candidate lost. I wouldn't be surprised if you succumb to depression due to the recent progress Nigeria has made.

Tinubu was actually my candidate, but unlike you,I don't worship people.
He is more concerned about consolidating power than actually bringing the genuine change he promised.
If we see genuine change, we will praise and criticize him for it.
But if we see abacadabra statistical numbers
We will call him out for it.
Thats where we are different.
Most of the numbers released by Tinubu' regime are false and baseless.
All he does is release Snippets to confuse a very ignorant populace.

Next time i want you to argue with facts, not on whether i like or dont like.
Show you know what you are talking about. Not whether i like Tinubu or not.
If i like him and he wants to sink the whole economy ? I should just keep liking him ?

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Politics › Re: Governor Adeleke Appointed Davido As Chairman Osun Sports Trust Fund by malali: 6:26am On Oct 25, 2025

Raph82:
There are things U prefer and make priority. He didn't see that as priority when there are lots of jets in the presidential fleet as at that time. For someone planning to be head of states till death, private jets will be the least of his problems. As at then, he had stolen enough to even buy a jet-producing company

The politicians of today have stolen more than him.
He was only exposed because he died.

Politics › Re: IMF World Economic Outlook Growth Projections For 2025 by malali: 5:14am On Oct 25, 2025

Weaponized illiteracy

Percent growth without context is misleading; base effects can turn “good” numbers into bad outcomes.

The IMF table shows percent changes, not the quality of the starting point. Example: on a positive base, 1% of $10 billion = $100 million, that’s real expansion. But if you’re starting from a hole, percentages can hide pain. Two ways people misuse “growth” from a negative $10 billion:

• If “growth” means a 4% increase applied to a negative base, you get -10B × 1.04 = -$10.4B (the deficit is worse).

• If “growth” means improving by 4% toward zero, it’s -10B × 0.96 = -$9.6B (still deeply negative).

So don’t be carried away by window‑dressed percentages. Without knowing the base, the balance sheet health, and real purchasing power, a headline like “4% growth” can still mean households are worse off, deficits persist, and the economy isn’t truly improving.

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Defense Stalls, Seeks More Time To Access Case File by malali: 4:19pm On Oct 24, 2025

AngelicBeing:
For posting this comment, let me call DSS to pick you tomorrow and detain you for 700 years in kebbi state.

cc: DSS, DIA and DMI

Which me ?
The real me or the cloned ?
I am just a content creator

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Defense Stalls, Seeks More Time To Access Case File by malali: 3:33pm On Oct 24, 2025

123yes:
Even while in prison he is far better than most of you that are suffering and smiling in this APC hardship government. South EAST is happy with NNAMDI KALU. It is people like you that supports bandits terriorrising the whole part of Nigeria that hate Nnamdi Kalu.

That Fendi shirt must be smelling by now......lol
Is he modeling for Fendi too ?
I am wearing clean laundered clothes and enjoying my freedom. Nnamdi Kanu is not enjoying those 2 things i just mentioned.

I dont hate him, I am just clowning him.
The same way he enjoyed clowning other people.

Are you the real 123yes ? Or is this a clone post too

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Defense Stalls, Seeks More Time To Access Case File by malali: 1:24pm On Oct 24, 2025

zoedew:
His sanity is doubtful. I like the way the Judge and Prosecutor are obliging him the adjournments he seeks. On Monday next if he comes with another story his defence will be foreclosed and the Prosecutor will address the court and the court will adjourn for judgment. On appeal he will lose serially. Folks are helping him dig his grave deeper.

They should adjourn till 2084.
He is not the real Nnamdi Kanu

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Defense Stalls, Seeks More Time To Access Case File by malali: 1:22pm On Oct 24, 2025

Smartcitizen:
Why are you killing yourself because of another person's propaganda?

Were you people not the people who were trying everything possible to sell the propaganda of THE PORT HARCOURT REFINERY WORKING FOR US ALL?

Where is the Port Harcourt refinery working?

How many petroleum products are they refining everyday?

You are angry with another person requesting that he should be kept in jail, so if God should judge you with the same judgement, how will you see your life?

I've told many of you that this APC government will be used against you people in future because of what you have always said to others.

Karma is real.....

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That is not Nnamdi kanu....thats Namadin Kano el sudan
We cannot allow the government to be deceiving us.
We need the real Nnamdi Kanu.

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Defense Stalls, Seeks More Time To Access Case File by malali: 12:31pm On Oct 24, 2025

Bar1941:
Very soon, we will start a protest tagged:

#Bring the original Nnamdi Kanu#

We need the real Nnamdi Kanu with the DNA......Tinubu's government cannot be parading a clone.

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Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Defense Stalls, Seeks More Time To Access Case File by malali: 11:42am On Oct 24, 2025*

Is this the real Nnamdi kanu ?

This guy is most likley a clone, look at his ear, the right is bigger than the left and the real kanu was left handed. This guy is right handed

The real Nnamdi Kanu passed away in Kenya and the government brought back a clone ?

This is Namadin Kano el sudani......

I remember the day Buhari had to tell the whole world it was really him and he had not been cloned at the UN general assembly.

If i were the government, i would get a kanu look alike with the same Fendi Attire to claim,he is the real Nnamdi Kanu, and when we get to court. I will ask him if he is the real Nnamdi Kanu. I will ask him to prove it. He also has to stand up in court and say he is the real Nnamdi Kanu.

This Boy should be left in Jail for at least another 20 years.
He is an agent provocateur. The minute you release him, he will start causing chaos.
That is his only source of livelihood
Nigerians in the southeast are enjoying the relative peace.
That Mondays sit at home, is economic terrorism

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Politics › Re: Governor Adeleke Appointed Davido As Chairman Osun Sports Trust Fund by malali: 4:12am On Oct 24, 2025

Bluntemperor:
But,what about Mrs Abacha?
Have they Shown You How Much Abacha Looted Out of Nigeria,That Foreign Government are Still Bringing Back the Looted Money Till Date?
So,Abacha and his Family as footsoldiers- of looting Machines- Are Guilty of Corruption in Nigeria!
•Something de Wrong With Our Southerners- for they love gaulibility - Cho,Cho,Cho!
It Seems You Are so Ignorant Of Facts on Corruption in Nigeria - for you to type this Rubbish In Red!
Na Wa O!

The day Tinubu dies we will know how much he stole too.
Abacha never owned a private jet as president.
Tinubu bought 2 private jets by being governor of Lagos state.

Politics › Re: Governor Adeleke Appointed Davido As Chairman Osun Sports Trust Fund by malali: 4:10am On Oct 24, 2025

Raph82:
but he made the headline as the biggest looter in the history of Nigeria.

His family never owned a private Jet.
Tinubu owned 2 jets as Lagos state governor.

Politics › Re: Governor Adeleke Appointed Davido As Chairman Osun Sports Trust Fund by malali: 6:45am On Oct 23, 2025

Abacha never appointed a single member of his family to any government post.

Politics › Re: Nigerian Lawmakers Probe $4.6 Bln Health Grants Received,as Disease Deaths Rise by malali(op): 1:43am On Oct 23, 2025

Over 10 billion dollars in grants.

The culprits are walking around freely.

Imagine if these had been used to rehab all the primary healthcare centers around Nigeria.

Politics › Nigerian Lawmakers Probe $4.6 Bln Health Grants Received,as Disease Deaths Rise by malali(op): 1:43am On Oct 23, 2025

Nigerian lawmakers on Wednesday launched an investigation into how $4.6 billion in international aid grants between 2021 and 2025 was used, saying the money had failed to prevent high mortality rates from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.

In a motion presented to the Nigeria's House of Representatives they said urgent oversight and a reevaluation of current strategies was necessary to prevent the country missing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of ending epidemics of those diseases by 2030.
Keep up with the latest medical breakthroughs and healthcare trends with the Reuters Health Rounds newsletter.

The committee will investigate the grants provided by the United States Agency for International Development and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The Nigerian politicians noted that the United States Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief also contributed $6 billion over the same period to support HIV/AIDS treatment and strengthen health systems.
"Despite these significant investments, Nigeria remains burdened by public health challenges, including 51,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2023, ranking third globally," the parliamentary motion said.

Nigeria accounted for 31% of global malaria deaths and ranked first in Africa and sixth globally for tuberculosis cases, the lawmakers said.
U.S. President Donald Trump since returning to office in January has led the way in cutting foreign aid budgets, prompting humanitarian workers to warn he has put the lives of vulnerable people, especially in Africa, at risk.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nigerian-lawmakers-launch-probe-into-46-bln-health-grants-disease-deaths-rise-2025-10-22

Politics › Re: 4 Months After Tinubu Launched N50 BN Tractor Initiative, Tractors Remain Unused by malali: 8:15am On Oct 21, 2025

It’s almost comical how the government talks about “agricultural independence” while N50 billion worth of tractors sit idle, gathering dust at NASC headquarters. Once the money is allocated in a Federal Executive Council meeting and spent, the project seems to instantly become a dead initiative. Bribes exchanged, kickbacks collected, and suddenly the task of serving millions of farmers lands in the hands of the lowest, most incompetent bureaucrats. These “lower cadre” officials then organize their own little “chop make I chop” distribution schemes, favoring states or farmers who can grease their palms, while the real beneficiaries, the hardworking farmers, wait in limbo.

The tractors should have been distributed immediately, with service personnel trained and strategically allocated across regions. Yet here we are, with 36 ministers and thousands of ministry staffers sitting on the sidelines, unable, or unwilling, to execute what should have been a straightforward plan.

All logic points to the fact that with oil prices high and a looming tax in January 2026, the government should be rushing to kickstart agricultural self-sufficiency. Instead, these tractors are rotting in one spot, a stark reminder that in this regime, policy-making and implementation are worlds apart. Money spent doesn’t mean action; it just means someone got paid.

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