₦airaland Forum

plantist:
But you just wrote up there that we don't spend in dollars, in order not to see anything in this FAAC shared, you had to control in order to increase your wailing. Please continue wailing.

Vision101:
Keep wailing. The state governors are happier than before. They couldn't execute projects before but they are doing them now. Some of them owed close to two years salary areas to workers but they are paying as and when due now.

So please go ahead and answer your yourself. In my life time this is the period that I have seen the worst type of politics and opposition in Nigeria. I hope that Nigerians will be wiser else we will make a terrible political mistake.

Barely 24 hours after resigning from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a former governorship aspirant, Otunba Emmanuel Fayose, has met with Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the National Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

An Ekiti-born politician, who preferred anonymity, confirmed that Fayose is already in talks to pitch his tent with the ADC.

During the consultation visit, Aregbesola was said to have encouraged him to “join” ADC without further delay, assuring that the party remains open to strong grassroots leaders.

Fayose had on Thursday released a widely publicised video where he described the PDP as a “compromised party,” accusing its leadership of being “stooges for the ruling party, APC.”

His sudden meeting with Aregbesola has further fuelled speculations that his political base may now shift to the ADC as the party continues to position itself as an alternative force ahead of the next general elections.

zero8zero:
This epistle is nonsense, doesn't make sense. If you're so bothered on dollars, go to the market and convert the price of garri to dollars and pay for it in dollar equivalent, since you wailers have absolutely no idea about macroeconomics.
Today, we now have the true value of naira, rather than the artificial and subsidized value where there were four to five exchange rate windows. A situation whereby a few privileged could get dollars at 450 and sell it in the black market for 700.. trash!. Take several seat back abeg.

zero8zero:
Do you guys even try to guage your IQ before coming online to talk?. Why must you convert a naira dominated economy into dollars in spending terms?. Are we buying or selling in dollars in Nigeria?, Is FAAC shared in dollars?. Why is it that wailers are not smart upstairs?.
As we speak, states have reduced their external debts, executing projects except for the lazy ones who doesn't want to do nothing.
Like I earlier asked, when inflation was single digit & less than 15%, why were states and FG borrowing to pay salaries and increasing debt profiles?. Why were they not executing a single project?, since inflation is your lazy excuse.

zero8zero:
Nawa for you wailers o, the Governors are not complaining, na you dey complain. Tell us one Governor that has come out to wail as una dey do, rather they appreciate the fact that they're getting more.
When this country had recession back to back, did it not affect the entire economy?, were all the states not cash strapped?, did we even have increase in FAAC to ease off?.
During GEJ, more than 20 states couldn't pay salaries, some were paying half salaries, almost all the state couldn't pay pensions and this was the period inflation rate was still ok. Yet the FG couldn't rescue the states, even Okonjo confessed the FG was also borrowing to pay workers salaries..

Now, that more funds is getting to the grassroots, you're complaining even when those collecting it did not ask you to complain for them. Inflation has been on steady decline, the Governors can now do more, Akwa-Ibom, Ebonyi, Edo etc have raised minimum wage up to 80k -100k, yet na wailers dey complain. Governors have invited the President to commission projects yet na wailers dey wail.
Since your excuse is inflation, would you blame your state Governor after collecting the big cash to sit on it and do nothing since the money doesn't have value, make them kuku keep looting it or spend it on their mistresses, you will like that, right?. I pray make God dash una common sense.

seanfer:
Can you please share with us all the last time the FAAC shared up to $1 billion as allocation...
This report says the highest in the history of the country and you're here ranting as usual. $1.48 billion as allocation is not that bad except you have decided that you will never see anything good in the current government..

natureisgood:
I expect you would at the very least be an Undergraduate.

Something was done to align with world's best practise and standard, but you are looking for 96 special centres up and down.

Damn, school aint scam afterall

vincenteger:
He should present the list wike gave him you mean.

Wat about the administrator, is he not supposed to give account of the 6 months he spent there.

smtx:
Police should make him Ambassador

Minister of the Federal Capital, Nyesom Wike, has suggested that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Umar Damagun, betrayed him.

Wike claimed that he has turned out to become Damagum’s enemy, adding that the PDP Chairman won’t hesitate to kill him if he had the opportunity.

He said that he was the reason Damagun is still in that position as the PDP Chairman, adding that he did everything within his powers to put him there.

“I did everything, I had his lawyers, and that’s what sustained Damagum to be there,” Wike said on Thursday while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

“But who is Damagum’s enemy now? It is me. If there is one person Damagum wants to be killed, it is me,” he added.

Meanwhile, DAILY POST reported recently that a former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, had called on the Damagun-led National Working Committee, NWC, to expel Wike, former Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, former Abia State governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, and others from the PDP.

He urged the NWC to wield the big stick and sanction members who openly undermine the party to the advantage of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

Kylekent59:
Churches are now run in a similar manner to politics.

The church's purpose is to win souls.

I can't remember the last time Nigerian churches won souls for God.

All they know is money, tithes, contributions, building structures, and so on. They forgot the church's main purpose.


Let them return to the Bible.

The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala has defended Seyi Tinubu’s political ambitions, saying the president’s son is qualified to contest for the office of the governorship of Lagos State.

Speaking on The Clarity Zone podcast posted on YouTube on Wednesday, Bwala dismissed claims that Seyi’s political relevance is tied solely to his father’s influence, arguing that the younger Tinubu has carved out his own identity as a unifier among Nigerian youths.

“If Seyi Tinubu’s father is the president, what stops him from running for Lagos State governor? Seyi Tinubu can even challenge his father in the next election,” Bwala said.


He described Seyi as “humble and unassuming” despite his privileged upbringing as the son of a former Lagos governor and now Nigeria’s president.

According to Bwala, Seyi has consistently built friendships and supported young people in finding opportunities in government, even those from opposition parties.

“At a point, he was even criticised for the people he brought into government, who were mostly Obidients. That tells you he doesn’t have biases,” he explained.

Bwala also shared that his own history of criticising the Tinubu administration has not strained his relationship with Seyi, describing the president’s son as mature enough to separate politics from personal ties.

He further highlighted that, unlike many children of past Nigerian leaders, Seyi Tinubu has not been linked to scandals or controversies.

“You will never see him attacking people on social media, even though his father is one of the most vilified in recent memory. He has built relationships even with critics of this government,” Bwala said.

He urged Nigerians to judge Seyi based on direct encounters rather than public opinion.


“Until you experience somebody, don’t have an opinion of them. Too many people inherit other people’s problems without any personal encounter,” he added

SenatorCharles1:
The six-month tenure as Rivers Sole Administrator was during an emergency rule where the National Assembly had assumed the powers of the Rivers State House of Assembly, therefore:

The National Assembly approved the budgets.

It is the National Assembly who exercised oversight during the period, not the state assembly.

Therefore, the Rivers State House of Assembly lacks constitutional authority to probe that period because its legislative and oversight powers were suspended.

Proper oversight of Ibok-Ete Ibas’s finances during the state of emergency lies with the National Assembly, the Auditor-General of the Federation, and the EFCC/ICPC.

DMerciful:
Putting Tinubu and rule of law in the same sentence is an aberration

Ttalk:
Look in the mirror and see Ojukwu with ragtag army, see Uwazuruike, see MNK and Ekpa those are the frontrunners of those who doesn't believe in Nigeria

Ttalk:
It shall never be well with enemy of Nigeria who calls Nigeria a zoo yet still want to rule it

sreamsense:
When you complain first before you ask questions of what you don't understand, how will you get understand the glow? When you are too busy criticizing, how will you know when government has done anything good before. Everything has been computerized before now while you were busy criticizing Tinubu, so don't think you will have to trek to Awka or Obollo Afor before you can get new passport. It is not all the 96 locations that get 250 requests daily.

Making everything to be done in one place is far better than you proposal, it will also reduce or eliminate related corruption to it. At least with this perhaps you will change your mind to vote for Tinubu in 2027 and stop following who no no road that can still say whether he is in the PDP, LP or ADC