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Tinubu should stop this razzmatazz and junketting, and get down to work to ease the suffering of the masses.

Ruling Nigeria is not an owanbe party, it is a serious business requiring an 18 hours strategizing daily against epidemic level poverty and insecurity.

Omicron007:
Today makes it exactly one month since Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn in as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Since he took the oath of office, the president has made some tough calls and decisions. He has also made some appointments.

One month later, how has he performed so far?

Until the economic pains we masses are suffering are ameliorated, Tinubu has done nada.

eteebanky1:
Yes, they generate revenue, what you don't know is that their revenue was subsidize by the FG, now that the subsidy is gone

During subsidy, WAEC fee was approximately #18,500..... Now that the subsidy is gone, get ready to pay through the nose for 0'level exams, guessing like #50,000 from 2025

Until that time comes I will believe you.

With this accountability in government finances can be relatively achieved, and opportunities for looting will be minimised.

Also it is time we masses feel the true pain so that we will call our government institutions to account, and maybe when the economic pains become enormous, we will eventually revolt and overcome our inbred apathy to our leaders' apparent disdain for our feelings.

baralatie:
Have you vetted the accounts of the three I mentioned before?

I am not the government who is vetting and auditing them every year, with huge bribe being paid to these auditors to hide their malfeasance.

The same story with JAMB until an honest man got there, after Dibu Ojerinde and his family have stolen the place blind.

baralatie:
WAEC
NECO
Nursing andmidwifery Council
Nigerian Medical Council
Council of Engineering is
Nonsense to you?

Yes. All of them are generating huge revenue from members and students. What are they doing with it?

Bringbackmandat:
I only speak with people that understand me. Please fck out.

Yessah. Sorry sah.

Hoelujohn:
It's done all over the world. Let us bear the pains, our children and grandchildren will benefit from the policy later in life.

Is it the children that Tinubu would have killed, with their parents, with arbitrary taxes and charges that will benefit from his murderous economic policies?

Mr. Tinubu is already climbing the tree beyond its leaftop (presido ti gun igi koja ewe). Mek him do am sofly sofly, and let we poor people breathe.

Bringbackmandat:
quality of a Yoruba man. They are neither there nor here.
Don't trust them.

But they are there sitting in Abuja as your President and in THEIR Lagos as your Governor.

Oganaaba:
Peter come to our rescue

In Anambra?

Streetdoctor:
Mehnnnn, I watched d video and I must confess d reason why SS and SE always see themselves as cousins while d other part of Nigeria sees them as brothers. No wonder SE were able to defend Jonathan till date.

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It is the same Dokubo that was calling the Igbos his slaves in another very recent video. Saying his grandfather was selling the Igbos as slaves in the past, and he too will be doing so if not for civilization.

kushe:
Adventurers are essential, they help us discover the vastness and beauty of God's creation.
No crime in what they have done especially as this same sub has done the same journey several times before.
James Cameron the director of Avatar and the Titanic has been to the Challenger Deep which is far deeper than where this occurred.
People including me are fascinated by the titanic, I might not pay to go to its grave but I get excited whenever new images from the site come up.
Unfortunately it is still the same old pictures which mean it is still a very difficult terrain to conquer.
Oceangate is a hobbyist enterprise, if better company like Spacex face this deep oceans with better money,naa everyday people go dey go there and very safely too.
For those saying they bought their deaths with their own money ,my response is people die in Ferraris and Lambos on land. Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter accident.
Just make sure when you die,you are not facing your maker as a judge who would ask you questions you might not be able to answer.
Jesus is essential and not a topic for debate.
Accept him !!!

The only worthy comment of them all. Succinct and it captures all the essence of the tragic incidence.

mariovito:
And the winner of the Darwin's award for natural selection goes to....

...Goes to the White men who dare everything to seek and know the unimaginable mysteries of this world.

Kudos to all adventurous souls. May they live forever in the hearts of men!!!

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar

Always sharing

Allow state to control their resources and give you small percentage of it


I understand the insult
Have been giving tinubu's supporter here on nairaland headache
It is about to get worse for them...it is no longer business as usual for them
Always defending thier oppressors because of petty sentiments

So says a self confessed international thief who has no shame. Your time in jail awaits you soon. Tinubu is already looking for you, and there is no hiding place for you. You will be gone a long time bra, and no one will miss you.

sotall:
Your first question reeks of someone who is either naive or intentionally braindead to political happenings within Nigeria.

So says a hate blinded brainless kid.

sotall:
If they are trying to reap where they didn't sow, why not let them go so Yoruba can join with Hausa/Fulani and become one country.

Who is stopping them from going?

Your IPOB government is already managing your regional affairs, destroying your economy by keeping you idle on Monday, and killing your kinsmen at will without Nigerian government intervention. So that's as good as if your region has already seceded.

Fujiyama:
^^^
He acted immediately on 'fuel subsidy'. He didn't wait to get advice, study any reports or engage in any consultations. Okay, fair enough. The question now is whether we will see the same urgency of purpose in stopping the waste and graft in the public sector. That's going to be a lot harder to do and sadly, he doesn't have the sincerity and integrity to see it through to the bitter end.



^^^
These are yesterday's men - nobody is talking about these failed administrations any more. And you are dead wrong about their being let off easy as far as report implementation is concerned. A search on this very platform will confirm this.



^^^


The sad thing is that far too many will actually take your advice and choose death by installment. 'Let's wait'? 'It's still too early?' OK.

This administration has its sights set on the most vulnerable members of society and they will bear the brunt of policy choices made - because they are an easy target. Its far, far easier to remove 'fuel subsidy' than it is to reform MDAs and trim a bloated public sector.

I predict a net transfer of wealth from low income groups to the so-called 'one percenters' over the life of this administration. The signs are there.

The unbelieving, nay sayer antagonists have always exist from the beginning of history and will continue to do so till the end. No matter what good thing you do, or planning to do they will find reasons to misreport it. So your's is no exception.

Therefore keep on hating, keep on spewing out spurious articles to discredit him, Tinubu will surprise you yet, and that very soon.

The Biafran Anger Against Obafemi Awolowo
THE ALTERNATIVE

By Reno Omokri

Sadly, many Nigerians of Southeastern origin have a very deep-seated grudge against Nigeria due to the misinformation they have been fed with all their lives. These misrepresentations and historical revisions have been passed on to them during their formative years by parents who actually believed the wartime propaganda they were fed by people like Okokon Ndem, a very charismatic propagandist with a most convincing voice.

Okokon Ndem suffered from the Zeal of the Convert syndrome. Because he was not ethnically an Igbo (he was from modern-day Cross River), he felt he had to prove his Igboness to the authorities in Biafra. And so, he went over and beyond what other Biafran wartime propagandists, like the late Senator Uche Chukwumerije, did.

Many myths still believed by young Igbo men and women today originated from the original Radio Biafra, of which Uche Chukwumerije and Okokon Ndem were its most powerful voices.
So intense was their propaganda that today, 53 years after the Nigerian Civil War ended, they continue to be propagated.

Recently, a young man came on my Twitter profile to declare that Nigeria fought the civil war to destroy the Igbo and that was why all Igbo were given just twenty Naira after the war.

This story is widely believed but is very untrue.
The whole issue about the twenty pounds (not Naira) arose as a result of the fact that after declaring the independent Republic of Biafra, the authorities of that Republic declared the Nigerian Pound as non-legal tender, and on January 29, 1968, they introduced the Biafran Pound as the legal tender of Biafra.

The Federal Military Government, led by General Gowon, immediately countered before the currency was declared by declaring that, that currency was illegal and would not be recognised or accepted by Nigeria. Nigerian citizens, including those who referred to themselves as Biafrans, were urged to reject the new so-called currency.

Upon this announcement by the Federal Military Government, many prudent ‘Biafrans’ withdrew all their Nigerian Naira and kept it at home. One such Biafran was Evelyn Okororie, who is still alive and told her story to CNN, which published it on January 16, 2020, in a piece titled ‘Biafra war: Survivors relive account 50 years after Nigerian civil war ends.’

It is necessary to note that though Haiti, Zambia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Gabon formally recognised the Republic of Biafra, none of them accepted the Biafran Pound as a currency freely convertible with their own local currencies. Meaning that if you somehow found your way out of Biafra to those nations, you could not exchange your Biafran Pound for their local currencies.

After the Republic of Biafra was militarily defeated and the East Central state rejoined the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the then Minister of Finance, faced a conundrum. What was Nigeria to do with the Biafran Pound?
The currency was illegal and had been printed without the backing of the Central Bank of Nigeria. There was no way even to verify who had genuine Biafran Pounds because Biafra had collapsed, and those responsible for printing the currency had either died, fled the country, or were denying involvement.

As a personal initiative of Chief Awolowo, who refused to take his plan to the Federal Executive Council for fear that it would be defeated by hawks in General Gowon’s cabinet, the Ministry of Finance issued a circular to pay £20 to those former Biafrans whose account records of monies domiciled in Nigerian Pounds were lost, and to those who held their bank balances in Biafran Pounds.

Every account holder got a blanket £20. That money was a gift from Nigeria and, more specifically, from the humanness of Chief Awolowo. Those former Biafrans who could prove their account balances in Nigerian Pounds received all their monies.

The late Senator Arthur Nzeribe is an example of an Igbo who could prove his account balances in the Nigerian Pound. All former Biafrans who had accounts in banks outside the Eastern Region got access to all their funds after the war. The late Chief Alex Ekwueme is an example of this.

I urge those who harbour a grudge against Nigeria for that policy to please put themselves in Chief Awolowo’s shoes. Many of the banks in the then Eastern Region had been destroyed. The accounts were in Biafran pounds. Records were lost. And even the banks themselves destroyed records for fear of being punished for holding Biafran currencies, which was an act of economic sabotage against Nigeria, which was then under a military government.

What would they have Chief Awolowo to have done? Accept the Biafran Pound and freely convert it to Naira? Does that even make sense when the Federal Military Government warned Colonel Emeka Ojukwu’s government against the act and told Biafrans not to accept that currency?

After the Union defeated the Confederate states during the American Civil War, the Confederate States’ dollars became worthless from May 26, 1865. The Union did not give any $20 to holders of the Confederate States’ dollars. As it should be. After the war, holders of the Confederate States’ dollars just lost their money. Period! That is the sad reality of war.

But in our case, Chief Awolowo, out of the goodness of his heart and not out of any obligation, gave as a gift £20 to all Biafran Pounds account holders.

If the Biafran Pounds had any value whatsoever, why did Colonel Emeka Ojukwu not take it along with him when he fled Biafra for Ivory Coast?

And to even the field and create a level-playing ground, he took the extraordinary step of abolishing the Nigerian Pound and introducing the Nigerian Naira. He introduced the policy in 1971, although it was not implemented until January 1, 1973.

Furthermore, after the war, Chief Awolowo paid the East Central state all their monies from the Federation Account from 1967-1970. He had invested the funds and returned it to them, for which he was acknowledged by SG Ikoku, the Commissioner for Economic Development in East Central State, in the Daily Times of May 22, 1971.

Some others have accused Chief Awolowo of using starvation as a means of war. Others have written on my Twitter timeline that Chief Awolowo sent poisonous food to Biafra to kill Igbo. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Why would Chief Awolowo poison the food he sent to Biafra to feed civilians? First and foremost, he had no duty to send food. It was a humanitarian gesture because Chief Awolowo had personal principles. The gesture brought him into conflict with General Gowon and Murtala Muhammed.

You have to understand that Chief Awolowo was a very committed ascetic Christian, as well as an esoteric mystic (I choose not to say more about this), and he could not live with himself as Biafran civilians were dying. The food itself was sent in conjunction with the Red Cross, the World Council of Churches, as well as The Catholic Church through Caritas. Are you telling me the Red Cross and these other bodies would allow Chief Awolowo poison food relief?

That particular propaganda was imitated and spread by a man called Okokon Ndem, a presenter on Radio Biafra. The purpose was to make the civilians, for whom Chief Awolowo intended the food, reject it so that it could be given to Biafran soldiers.

Do you see what the Igbo call okporoko (stockfish)? It was a prominent aspect of the relief materials. That is why and how okporoko became popular in Biafra and Igboland till today. They have Chief Awolowo and the nation of Norway to thank for Okporoko. Before the war, they did not know anything like Okporoko.

Even in Europe, when the Germans surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad for 900 days during the Siege of Leningrad, they did not send in any food. When the Allies surrounded Germany, they also did not send in any food.

During the American civil war, the Union forces blockaded the Confederate rebels and starved them.

But Chief Awolowo sent food relief to Biafran civilians (which Colonel Ojukwu diverted to Biafran soldiers), and today, rather than gratitude, the children of those he tried to save harbour so much venom against him while spending money with Murtala Muhammed’s image. If only they knew what Murtala did to them!

Every family in former Biafra owes a debt of gratitude to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. But sadly, many parents who should have taught their children this documented history have instead filled them with hatred by regaling them with wartime propaganda.

Reno’s Nuggets
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/06/20/the-biafran-anger-against-obafemi-awolowo

Vinnie2000:
Plz I heard that in the Super Eagles match against Sierra Leone,
SW players did NOT contribute Anything to the match.🤨

That the Igbos were Spectacular throughout.

IS IT True? 🤔😄

No. It was an Edo guy, who was born and grew up in a Lagos slum called Ajegunle, whose name is Oshimen, that gave a scintillating performance, scoring two goals. Later, a Delta born guy called Iheanacho scored a late goal.

Hope that answered your question

IamANigerianMan:
Nonsense , how can a man who never have intelligent background head EFCC, Non of these people from Ribadu till Bawa is corrupt, government would just bring one useless excuse to sack them, tell me from Ribadu, Farida, Lamode, Magu and Bawa has ever been guit of allegations.. Falana is very corrupt , he should near sit of power.

Falana is very corrupt. That's a new one, any evidence to corroborate this assumption by you?

Malami, his crime partner, should be closely monitored to prevent him sneaking away from the country.

Agbadocassava:
Southerners are more corrupt than northerners

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Northerners are hellishly corrupt more than southerners. They exhibit no conscience when it comes to looting the country, they believe it is normal and their rights to do so.

mikeapollo:
It is better you understand the consequence as regards the exchange rate.
This would make the dollar to be N1000 in a few weeks, and destroy things more.
We have a president that is operating market-dictated, capitalist ideas but the market on Nigeria is not a skewed type with no checks and balances.
By the time the dollar reaches N1000, the same govt. would some back againand tell you that fuel must sell for N1000 per litre because ''subsidy is a scam'' and that they cannot be father christmas to other neigbhouring countries forgeting that it is Nigerian masses that are suffering and dieing..

A fake economist and a die-hard pessimist sighted.

WhisperedNoise:
Lol
You are hell bent on proving I'm igbo that you've lost all semblance of common sense and decency. Sad.

O so Yoruba mo ni, opuro.

WhisperedNoise:
Ori yin o pe, sah. Mo fe so pe ee ni opolo, bhet...agbalagba agbaya niyin. Eranko jatijati

So ori wipe o nki se omoluwabi bayi, nitoripe omo Yoruba atata ko ki nbu baba ati iya re bi Iwo se nbu baba ati iya re ni ile yin. Oloribuku omo bi iwo lo nse be, ijiya ati ibanuje ni yio si gbeyin re bi o ba yi iwa pada. Aanu re lo nse mi, iwo omo Igbo alainironu yi, nba fi AGBA won e.

So says a Dr. Mimiko who has never treated a single patient all his life, but only has greed for public money.

WhisperedNoise:
Chief,
I'm sorry to say o, but you are a wicked and dark fellow. Actually, I'm not sorry. It's just the truth. Anybody who reads your constant attack against the easterners will agree.

Your constant tribalism and bigotry on this forum is disgusting. We all saw it during the elections, we are seeing it now. People like you won't hesitate to kill an igbo person if war breaks out.

Before you reply with nonsense, I am a bona-fide yoruba man. So don't even try to spin this off and spark a tribal debate.

Do you look in the mirror and feel pity for yourself? You should. You make it seem like igbos are the only problem of Nigeria. Newsflash - we ALL have a part to play.

See, I've been labeled "omo ale" by many Yorubas because I refuse to be tribalistic. If we are being honest, yorubas aren't perfect either. The Lagos everyone hoists as the home of excellence...that same Lagos is overrun with touts and area boys and omo oniles who won't think twice before stealing from you, defrauding you or even physical assault. That's your fellow Yoruba person o.

There are bad people in every tribe. There are good people too. Judging an entire tribe because of a few bad eggs is a very myopic thing to do.

You need to repent, bro. For posterity's sake.

An Igbo bigot masquerading as a Yoruba man. We have many of you on social media, so your own is not different.

Keep up your evil assignment, your dire reward is waiting gidigba upfront for you.

priceactionx:
i said it earlier he would be arrested. You cant escape in such a highly techincal environment.
Lets leave the tribal aspect of it, but my instint tells me before where the curprit may likely come from, all those brain boxes, side mirrors, interior assests land in ladipo. so no need to go further.

They should also arrest the people he selling the stolen goods to.

HeartlessMan:
Edo people nor kuku like school before before.

Na yahoo works be dere dreams.

onuman:
Tinubu is on popularity chase by going for Emefiele but ignores Buhari who without any scintila of doubt initiated and approved currency swap for Emefiele to implement.

This Mugu, FFK, is afraid to curse Buhari whose administration put Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world and one of the most terrorised countries on earth.

Was it Buhari that was funding the IPOB, ESN and UGM that were killing your kinsmen in Igboland, according to DSS indictment?

Was it not this Emefiele that was doing that because he hates you all, being not from your tribe, and therefore planning evil against Igboland by sponsoring murderers to exterminate your kinsmen.

And here you are supporting and hailing him. What a shame!

tonytony208:
Buroda Dìndìnrìn, Láàrín Tinubu ati Obi, èwo ló ja'lè jù?

Aburo omugo, ati ole kekere, ati ole nla, ole ni ole je. Ojelu ni gbogbo won. Ti ore re Obi ba ri ole nla ja, yio gbe gbogbo Eko mi. Igbo ni, won ni ojukokoro lopolopo, gegebi iwo naa semo.

Glory2DLamb:
Pishure or idonbelieveit.

I have the video of his arrest, but don't know how to upload it on Nairaland.

BrownSugq:
So this is an achievement?

Yes, in just 10 days. Or what are you expecting him to do in 10 days?