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Politics › Re: US Senate Committee Chair Decries Killings Of Christians In Nigeria,..Africa… by malali: 6:53am On Oct 14, 2025

America’s Moral High Ground on Violence Is Deeply Compromised

While Senator Risch’s condemnation of killings in Africa is morally justified, the U.S. cannot claim the ethical upper hand when its own domestic landscape mirrors many of the same pathologies, just under different names and narratives.
1. Gun Violence as a Civilian War:
• Over 48,000 Americans were killed by guns in 2023 alone, according to CDC data — that’s more than the total annual death toll from insurgencies in Nigeria or Mozambique.
• In the U.S., children and teenagers are now more likely to die from gunfire than from car accidents.
• Mass shootings, over 600 per year, are normalized — an endemic form of terrorism born not of religion but of policy paralysis.
2. State Complicity Mirrors What Washington Condemns Abroad:
• Just as African leaders are accused of “ignoring violence,” U.S. lawmakers are subsidized by powerful gun lobbies that actively block even basic background checks.
• Inaction in the face of preventable deaths.
3. Structural Inequality and Racialized Violence:
• The U.S. incarcerates more Black men per capita than South Africa did under apartheid.
• Police killings disproportionately target African Americans — over 1,200 civilians were killed by police in 2024, many unarmed, while prosecutions remain rare.
• Economic injustice, homelessness, and healthcare inequities create systemic violence that claims thousands of quiet lives every month.
4. Exporting Instability While Condemning It:
• U.S. arms sales and geopolitical maneuvering often fuel the very conflicts it later condemns.
• Washington supplied or sanctioned weapons in many African regions where extremist groups operate — including those now terrorizing Mozambique.

Politics › Re: 2027: NASS Proposes November 2026 For Presidential, Governorship Elections by malali: 6:37am On Oct 14, 2025

This government needs to be honest about the economy, all these manufactured numbers with a rising GDP doesn't make sense, A barrel of oil is less than $60/barrel ,not even enough to fund the budget as there is a large deficit.

We keep harping on increased remittances, which doesn't make sense because, Global economy is tighter everywhere in the world, USA,UK,Canada residents all complain of inflation and increased costs of living. Telling Nigerians that after paying all their bills abroad they still have money to send to Nigeria as remittances, which is even more than previously, doesn't make any sense at all.

Most likely possibility is we are using loans to pay other loans(Ponzi) and subsidizing the dollar. The increased non oil revenue is not adding up, Even Saudi GDP decreased in 2024, selling 11 million barrels of oil per day.And a stable rial to the dollar
But Nigeria is reporting increased GDP with 1.3 million barrel oil sales and a largely devalued naira to dollar.....IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.

The Nigerian Government is deceiving us with made up Numbers.

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Business › Re: Naira Extends Gains Against USD, Reaches 10-Month High by malali: 6:06am On Oct 14, 2025*

The naira's recent appreciation contradicts fundamental economic realities. With crude oil prices declining, Nigeria's primary export and foreign exchange earner, the structural basis for currency strength is eroding. Oil accounts for over 90% of Nigeria's export revenues, meaning falling prices directly threaten the sustainability of FX inflows.

While diaspora remittances and portfolio investments provide temporary liquidity boosts, these flows are volatile and insufficient to offset structural dollar demand from imports and capital flight. Portfolio investments, in particular, are hot money, easily reversible when global risk sentiment shifts or returns become unattractive. And the global economy is Tepid, people living in USA,UK,Canada are complaining of inflation and high cost of living, so why are the remittances higher, global economies were better in previous years and we didnt report increased remittances....this doesnt add up !!

The $42.57bn reserves figure, though improved, remains precariously low for an import-dependent economy of Nigeria's size, covering barely 6-7 months of imports. Without robust oil revenues to replenish reserves sustainably, CBN interventions become a finite resource burning through buffers to defend an artificially supported exchange rate.

Fundamentally, currency strength requires productive capacity and export competitiveness, neither of which improves when your main commodity weakens. The current naira gains appear driven by managed liquidity injections rather than genuine economic strength, making this rally fragile and likely unsustainable as oil price pressures intensify.

Let this administration come out and swear to God they are not paying Forex subsidy.

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Politics › Re: Wale Edun Is Getting Better — Sunday Dare by malali: 6:04am On Oct 14, 2025

Fearurcreeator:
See this one , so na your own parent never do evil before or you yourself. Hypocrite. Always talking about things they dont have firsthand information about.

Why are you feeling guilty.....LMAO

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Politics › Re: Wale Edun Is Getting Better — Sunday Dare by malali: 6:03am On Oct 14, 2025

OOOKEWALE:
This will happen to you too

If i am contributing to Nigerians suffering...May it happen to me.
If you are contributing to Nigerians suffering in any way....May it happen to you

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Politics › Re: Wale Edun Is Getting Better — Sunday Dare by malali: 4:14am On Oct 14, 2025

Shimbo96:
I know you believed and trust Sahara reporters but keep doubting yourself on the issues of economy. You should go to NIGER SINCE NIGERIA IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU.

You dont know Nigeria more than us. Some of us even have views stronger than Sowore.
Sowore is childs play compared to the views we hold.

Asiwaju's regime is concocting the numbers
Aswaju's regime is still paying Forex subsidy
Asiwaju's regime is borrowing loans to pay Forex subsidy.

I have said it.

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Romance › Re: What Tribe Has The Finest Set Of Ladies In Nigeria? by malali: 3:10am On Oct 14, 2025

RealityKings1:
Met a girl from Kaduna back then, must be the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.

Especially southern kaduna girls, the black melanin popping with curves !!! grin

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Politics › Re: Wale Edun Is Getting Better — Sunday Dare by malali: 3:08am On Oct 14, 2025

PrinceofSarcasm:
I was just discussing this with a friend recently. She works with the IMF but is currently on holiday in Nigeria. Interestingly, even the international community recognizes that much of our GDP figures don’t reflect the true reality

We are not all illiterates !!

Asiwaju's regime is concocting numbers.....Our non-oil revenue is false, they made up those numbers just to make the Debt to GDP ratio be acceptable to IMF and world bank.

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Politics › Re: Wale Edun Is Getting Better — Sunday Dare by malali: 12:35am On Oct 14, 2025

Sirmwill:
I don't think that's the work of the Finance minister

They are all members of the concocting numbers gang.......Our GDP is made up !!!

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Politics › Re: Wale Edun Is Getting Better — Sunday Dare by malali: 10:43pm On Oct 13, 2025*

Probably got a stroke from concocting all those fake GDP, DEBT,IGR Numbers

Numbers being pulled from thin air.....There are a lot of numbers being thrown at the general public that dont make sense.

Our GDP is made up....

First, hunger was weaponized.....

Now, illiteracy is being weaponized......

Anybody who is contributing to the sufferings of Nigerians....Please God take them away from this world.

Call them to you.....Let them rest in Peace.

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Politics › Re: 1 Million Bibles To Be Shared Nationwide In Honour Of Seyi Tinubu At 40 by malali: 8:28am On Oct 13, 2025*

Just imagine, if Buhari’s son suddenly decided to distribute one million Qurans nationwide when Buhari was still president.

Does this boy not have advisers ?

Politics mixed with religion is a road best left untraveled.
Faith is and should remain, a private relationship with God, not a public performance.

When someone who’s never been known for spirituality suddenly wakes up with a holy glow and starts waving religion in the public square…

Just know — 419 is about to take place.

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Politics › Re: Like Uche Nnaji, Like Dapo Abiodun: The Certificate Forgery Scandal Story by malali: 7:33am On Oct 13, 2025

Nnaji should be in jail. For proven perjury and Forgery

Write to Kennesaw State University, asking to verify if Dapo Abiodun attended,
Provide evidence and we will start his own "resignation" process

The earlier Nigeria starts having leaders who stayed in schools, the sooner we start seeing disciplined folks as leaders

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Politics › Re: Bauchi Senator, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila Quits PDP Over Internal Crisis by malali: 11:59pm On Oct 11, 2025

jogojogo:
Now I see. You assume everyone is hungry like you
If this guy has no principle how is that guy that left APGA to PDP move to Lanour Part and then to ADC now he doesn't even know his next direction?ì

LOL....I can feed some states in Nigeria.
Give them their monthly IGR out of my pocket.

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 11:57pm On Oct 11, 2025

Tayorshd87:
Probably because they pay higher minimum wage than then.

They pay more allocations than then.

They started more bigger projects than then.

And the global economy is more worse than then .

I mean GLOBAL economy so not Nigeria alone.

Enough of sentimental judgement just to paint the gove bad.

Let's be realistic for once

Cardoso and Edun-style “copy the U.S. textbook” fixes, jacking up interest rates to crush demand, were applied here, but monetary tightening alone cannot heal a currency-driven, supply-shock economy. Nigeria raised rates to choke inflation, but the result is high rates + high inflation: real incomes keep falling, FX weakness persists, and ordinary people pay the price.

Why they failed
1. Wrong disease, wrong medicine.
The U.S. playbook works when inflation is demand-led (too much spending chasing goods). In Nigeria, much inflation is supply and currency driven , import costs, fuel pricing, FX scarcity , so hiking rates is like treating a fever by turning off the lights. It reduces lending, but it doesn’t fix pipelines, ports, fuel pricing or FX reserves.
2. Currency pass-through destroys wage gains.
You can raise the minimum wage, but if the naira is tumbling (₦1 ≈ ₦1,500/$), every naira raise buys less. It’s like getting a bigger paycheck and then showing up at a store where everything now costs ten times more, your “raise” vanishes.
3. Borrowing costs choke business, not poverty.
Higher interest rates make loans unaffordable for small businesses, stalling production, jobs, and supply recovery. That keeps prices high and growth low, exactly the opposite of trickle-down recovery.
4. Rents & essentials spike, policy is cosmetic.
Infrastructure and supply fixes are slow and capital-intensive. Meanwhile, rents soar, food is more expensive, and fuel eats any nominal wage gains. So policy looks like action (higher wages, higher rates) but produces window dressing, not better daily lives.
5. Global weakness is real, but leadership matters.
Yes, the global economy is soft. But leaders who craft targeted supply fixes (fuel reform coupled with social safety nets, FX market stabilization, logistics fixes, targeted subsidies, off-budget public works) can still make a visible difference. Repeating textbook rate hikes without complementary supply and FX measures simply shifts the burden onto ordinary citizens.

Raising interest rates in this context is like turning up the AC in a house with a broken roof. You lower the temperature a bit, but rain keeps flooding the floor. You need to fix the roof (supply chains, FX, fuel policy), not just blast cold air.

Monetary tightening alone is not a cure for Nigeria’s combo of currency collapse, supply shortages, and structural bottlenecks. Without bold, targeted fixes to FX stability, fuel logistics, and productive capacity, salary hikes become a cruel joke, pay rises that are eaten alive by runaway prices.

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 11:43pm On Oct 11, 2025

morikee:
Or Badarawa

Or kawo

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 11:42pm On Oct 11, 2025

grandstar:
When Tinubu took office, 97% of government revenue was going towards debt servicing. Contrast this with the 26% Buhari met.

To better grasp the severity of the issue, imagine your salary is 10m a month, and after settling debt, you are left with 300k.

Debt servicing now takes up less than half revenue. The government will need to keep borrowing foe some time, until debt servicing consumes less than 20% of gocernment revenue

In addition, the present borrowing is more sustainable now than under Buhari.

We also need to define the size of borrowing in "real terms.

If a government borrowed N2trillion in 2015 when the exchange rate was $1- N200, that was $10bn.

What if the govement borrows 6 trillion today at an exchange rate of $1- N1,500 and you get $4bn.

Why is this so? This is because the money in circulation is much larger today.

Then, it might have been 10 trillion in 2015, today it is 100 trillion.

I simply used exchange rates to explain things.

When Buhari left office, imagine Nigeria was earning ₦10 every month but spending ₦9.70 just to pay back old loans, leaving only ₦0.30 to fix roads, build schools, or pay salaries. That was a disaster.

Now under Tinubu, the government spends maybe ₦4 or ₦5 out of every ₦10 on debt payments. That’s better, it means there’s more left to run the country.

But here’s the catch: the government is still borrowing a lot, and because the naira is now much weaker, the money looks smaller in dollars, like when your 1,000-naira note used to buy more bread before prices went up.

So yes, it looks like Nigeria is borrowing “less” in dollars, but in reality, it’s still taking on a huge amount of debt in naira terms.

It’s like saying, “I used to owe $10, but now I owe only $4,” when in truth your income and expenses are both worth far less, you’re not richer, you just changed the currency math.

Nigeria isn’t as choked by debt as before, but it’s not yet financially healthy either. It’s like a patient who’s no longer in the ICU but still very much in the hospital.

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 11:37pm On Oct 11, 2025

grandstar:
The real reason why oil prices are low or coming down is because of the declining US economy, which will reduce demand for petroleum products.

Likewise, a weak American economy will also drive down growth in other economies, which will also shrink demand for crude oil.

China in the past could have assisted by forcing its banks to lend .massive amounts of money to left up its economy and the world as it did in 2010, but China is swimming in too much debt, that it's avoiding doing the same now.

The picture is more nuanced. Oil prices are influenced not just by demand but by supply dynamics, Saudi, Russia, and Iran are increasing output, keeping prices suppressed. Even if U.S. or global demand slows, strategic production decisions, inventories, and futures speculation play a massive role. China’s debt limits its stimulus, yes, but the oversupply and geopolitical calibration of producers are currently the dominant drivers of lower oil prices, not just weak demand.

Politics › Re: Bauchi Senator, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila Quits PDP Over Internal Crisis by malali: 11:34pm On Oct 11, 2025

Gotocourt:
ADC bro

Gov Bala Mohammed is yet to decamp because of fear of EFCC

Bala Mohammed will go to Jail in Nigeria, no matter how long it takes. Even if it is posthumously

Because there is no reason he cannot pay the new minimum wage when all other states are paying it and we dont see any new structures or projects in Bauchi state. What is he doing with all the state allocation ?

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Politics › Re: Bauchi Senator, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila Quits PDP Over Internal Crisis by malali: 11:32pm On Oct 11, 2025

hafeeanubasy:
Hungry politicians are in ADC not APC.

PETER OBI,AMAECHI and co are their leaders

AMAECHI is the chief hungry man

Most politicians joining APC now are hungry politicians. Because if they held out during Buhari....What has changed now in terms of ideology during Tinubu ?

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Politics › Re: Bauchi Senator, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila Quits PDP Over Internal Crisis by malali: 11:30pm On Oct 11, 2025

PigTormentor:
Yeah but Trump, a lifelong Democrat became republican president. Ronald Reagan was also a Democrat before he became a republican. Rodney Alexander changed party in Louisiana while.in office just last yea.
In fact, if our village idiot president should wake up tomorrow and switch to another party, a lot of his cult MAGA followers will follow him.
And we have had at least one or two elected officials who switched parties this year or last year.
Your analysis is seriously flawed. Changing parties has nothing to fo with democracy. In fact, in a democracy, anyone should have the right to change their parties.
US is not the only democracy in the world. There are many other forms of democracy in other parts of the world.
I don't care if he change party or not, what's important is for him to be voted for by people in his constituency, for him to represent them properly and to make sure that they receive dividends of democracy.

You’re right that democracy gives people the freedom to associate and re-associate, including politicians changing parties. But freedom of association is not the same thing as freedom from ideology.

Yes, Trump and Reagan switched parties, but they did so within ideological frameworks that already existed. Both shifts reflected changes in U.S. party values and personal beliefs, not opportunistic jumps to stay in power or access public funds. When Reagan left the Democrats, he had already been aligning with conservative ideals for years; Trump, for all his volatility, didn’t join the Democrats after losing the Republican ticket, he built his movement within the Republican structure.

The problem in Nigeria isn’t that politicians change parties, it’s why they do. Here, defection isn’t driven by conviction or policy alignment; it’s driven by self-preservation, patronage, and access to federal coffers. When a senator loses a primary, suddenly his “beliefs” change overnight. When a governor faces EFCC investigation, he discovers a new “political ideology” in the ruling party. That’s not democracy, that’s transactional politics.

True democracy thrives on accountability and principle. In mature democracies, even when politicians switch sides, the constituency holds them to account, they resign and recontest under the new banner. In Nigeria, they simply defect mid-term, take their seat, and keep feeding off the same system. That’s not exercising democratic freedom, that’s mocking it.

So yes, democracy allows freedom of choice. But when that freedom is consistently abused for personal gain, what you get is not democracy, it’s political freeloading dressed as democratic flexibility.

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Politics › Re: Bauchi Senator, Samaila Dahuwa Kaila Quits PDP Over Internal Crisis by malali: 9:14pm On Oct 11, 2025

Hungry Politicians....... Next Stop, APC

This is how you know Nigeria isn’t truly practicing democracy.

In mature democracies like the United States, political parties are built on values and ideology. A Democrat like Obama could never become a Republican, and Mitch McConnell would never cross over to the Democrats, because their convictions and party philosophies are fundamentally opposed.

But in Nigeria, politics is not about ideology, it’s about opportunity. Politicians crisscross parties like they’re changing outfits. They can go to bed as members of the opposition and wake up the next morning as ruling party loyalists, all smiles at a press conference.

There’s no shame, no principle, no long-term vision. The motivation is never the people, it’s the pockets. Party switching in Nigeria is not ideological migration; it’s economic migration. Until political parties stand for real ideas and not just access to government contracts, Nigeria will remain a democracy in name, but a marketplace in practice.

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Nairaland General › Re: Dark Mode, UI Facelift, & Minimum Character Rule by malali: 9:11pm On Oct 11, 2025

tanigororo:
Here are my suggestions
1. Use machine learning to for sentiment analysis to analyse comments, instead of the bots banning unnecessary based on keywords.
2. Have a score card for every users based on the number of users comment likes and shares for that particular users comments to give credibility to each users who commented reasonably over time. This could help users with good scores to avoid the mandated 40 character comments.
3. Their should be a dislike button for a users comment, this is like a vote down which will affect users scores over time. Although this could be abused by users who dislike someone who shares views that doesn't sit well with them.
4. Add a button for bookmarking posts I may want to view later maybe follow post is enough for that.
5. Let users have the options of viewing post from catégories they like or commented most.
Or notification of hot topics from that categories is good

Seun, whatever you do,dont add a dislike button. It will be abused. The bullying will rise exponentially. Put them through the pains of explaining why they dislike the comment. You will give the mob food when you add a dislike button.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 9:06pm On Oct 11, 2025

jattopeter:
It no go better for People selling our destiny and hope all in the name of Political party and politicians.
APC, PDP,SDP,LP, ADC.... they are all the same.

I agree with you.
Nigeria needs a hard reset.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 9:05pm On Oct 11, 2025

Putinofrussia:
I remember that it was $94 billion when Tinubu took over and it is now $99 billion.
Does it mean that Tinubu didn't borrow more than $5 billion?

LOL.....No he has borrowed even more. the $94 billion was at old exchange rate.
The $99 billion is at new exchange rate

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:32pm On Oct 11, 2025

PUNANI01:
Braze up for heavy taxes comes next year. Heavy taxes!

Even with the taxes, the borrowing will not stop, this administration sees borrowing as easy money.
And because Lagos contributes the most amount of money to the FAAC revenue.
Tinubu is trying to borrow a lot of money because he still thinks its unfair for Lagos to be paying so much into the federal account in revenue generation while Yobe and Zamfara barely pay anything.
So he will borrow a lot and Lagos will not be cheated.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:30pm On Oct 11, 2025

JuanDeDios:
I'm sure by the time Tinubu is done, Nigeria will be the first quadrillion debt holder.

He is going very fast and he is not applying brakes
Dont forget this is just the Cash we owe
They have also mortgaged crude oil
So we owe crude oil payment in barrels, we borrowed at high crude oil prices and have to pay back with weaker prices. Which would even make us poorer.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:27pm On Oct 11, 2025

PUNANI01:
They will be so máãââđ that DMO released this statistics.

They have to release the numbers, its the law !!!
And IMF, World bank would not give them loans without them releasing the numbers
Its not up to them whether they want to release it or not
If Tinubu stops releasing the numbers a lot of countries wouldn't deal with him in monetary terms anymore
They will accuse him of lack of transparency

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:25pm On Oct 11, 2025

Dogalmighty17:
The president says the government has met its revenue targets for the year. Yet, it is still borrowing like crazy. Something doesn't add up.

Exactly !!! Someone finally gets it. They are reporting increased GDP, They are reporting meeting revenue goals for the year, but at the same time they are borrowing to fund the budget deficit.
There is no transparency in the statistics of this current administration.
They are not aware that the citizens can pick up on their false narratives.
They have also artificially raised the GDP with no concrete rise in revenue, just so that the Debt to GDP ratio will appear less than before.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:22pm On Oct 11, 2025

Mindlog:
They keep accumulating debts with nothing reasonable to show for it rather to misappropriate.

Usually when there is a lot of money coming in and there is not much to show for it, there is definitely a lot of misappropriation going on.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:20pm On Oct 11, 2025

OfficialP:
2025 budget implementation never start o and we dey October laidis

They are already borrowing loans to fund the budget deficit. They made the budget thing oil will sell at $75 dollars per barrel. Oil is selling at less than $60 per barrel today.
So know they are looking for money to pay for the deficit.

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:18pm On Oct 11, 2025

Racheal45:
Nigeria no fit better am telling u
Even is obi win
Na same story

We are borrowing ourself back to re-colonization.

Politics › Re: Nigeria’s Public Debt Hits N152.4 Trillion By June 2025 by malali(op): 8:17pm On Oct 11, 2025

CoronaVirusPro:
That is just $95.25 billion and feasible.

If I go by the figures you presented, then we are doing good based on our Debt to GDP ratio. The USA does not even have such.

Why we must always find time to appreciate His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR)

The GDP is made up, where is the GDP Value coming from, oil prices have dipped, so revenue is significantly decreased, The individual tax has not been implemented, We still need a loan to fund the budget deficit.
So where exactly is the GDP coming from. They said non-oil revenue has increased, but we are rushing to borrow more money despite this increase in non-oil revenue. So where is the money ?

I do not believe their Debt to GDP figure released, its doctored !!!

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