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I remember Tinubu laughing after the Endsars massacre. He is driven by personal ambition, not any ambition to set the country on a better course. His diminished capacity is blatant. He would consolidate every available power, and the state will be his machinery for oppression and intimidation.

If his ambition is only personal, how can we pray for his success?

It’s a tragic day for the nation.

Those that voted for another candidate in Kano would have more likely voted Tinubu as an alternative.

Those that voted Atiku are not people interested in his history or the plans he has for the nation. They look at his religion and tribe. They would have voted for the candidate that shared closer similarities. That’s not Peter Obi.

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Can you provide the link to the video please ?

How he didn’t win Uyo should be news.

Also, it’s the height of political ignorance to celebrate Obi’s win in Lagos and in a state like Cross-River. The victory margin is really low compared to other political parties.
Where APC or PDP has won, they took miles ahead.

Despite the victory in the states, I still believe the results were likely rigged to understate his votes. Tinubu’s vote in cross river should be less than 10,000.

I have been disappointed by Nairaland coverage of the election. Everything is pushed to FP. The candidate that won in Tinubu’s toilet will soon be on FP. Too much detracts it all.

This particular post is even better. It has enough data. Nonetheless, it will be better, if the polling units are compiled under their local government.

And then, there should be a dedicated forum for local government results. As at now, there is no picture.

Labour Party getting 6 votes in Atiku polling unit indicates massive progress.

There are several merchants online where you can make payment without pin or OTP. On apple stores for instance, all that is required is the number on your card and your cv\/. There are betting sites that their payment platform is also similar.

Block the card asap. The digits and your CV\/ is sufficient to empty your account. They don’t need your pin. Your account is compromised. The 6 digits before the last 4 digits is your unique card number.

As at the end of last month, Seun admitted on Twitter that he is the still the super mod. However the fella has not behaved any professionally nor with any iota of courtesy. He ignores those that care about him with utter disdain and with an alarming arrogance or ignorance that would cause the most talented to vanish into oblivion. Folks are fast forgetting him and the platform is moving on.

A simple statement for the members of the forum you have served close to a decade and have put some reputation into your service, is not out of place, how you choose not to build on that goodwill but rather put it to waste- is a tragedy.

You don’t have to even get into details. For those that may be interested in you, your silence is an admission of some wrong or an acknowledgment of your exit, which perhaps could be laid to rest if you have just a pint of professionalism in you. A similar happened to Seun. He could have been the face of social media in Africa if he did not lock himself up but instead engaged the actual media, opened himself up for conferences and be invested in the growth of the platform. Facebook was launched a little before Nairaland, if he had the mind of Zuckerberg or recruited the best minds from our universities. He will be face of the Africa internet. The under utilized potential should serve as a lesson.

To your question; you should consider the proximity of the land to your work place. Consider the facilities available in the neighborhood. Check whether during the raining season, the land will be an ocean, this is the topography of the land. There are several estates that will not only specify what you can build but also require further financial commitments from you, so have this in mind. Check the accessibility. Be sure about the legitimacy of the seller; Check if the land is secured from government incursion or other hoodlums or another party laying claim and so endeavor to have strong evidence of payments and that documents supporting the transfer are genuine.

Then what?? The governors should flex more muscles The Nigeria media-scape hunger for chaos.

Hehe. The same Stella oduah currently facing investigation for #5 billion fraud.

All of those gathered there, would get 5 liter of vegetable oil and 2 mudu of rice. People are so impoverished, they are not better than Esau.

It’s the point of the Buhari administration that pushing Nigerians into poverty will curb inflation.

Again, the implementation of the policy is political and not economically grounded.

Monetary policies can address inflation, but even monetary policies (analysts) grounded in economics knows that such monetary policy must be informed by the character that has caused the inflation.

We are going to be plunged into stagflation by this. The policy will not address the inflation, it will affect the country’s production and cause unemployment to further increase.

The CBN fiscal and monetary policies are naive. Economists in our higher education don’t give a damn, they are yet to settle their debt. Nigerians didn’t stand by ASUU, and that intellectual defense line, has no incentive to coherently give a comment. ICAN is spent as well. The current leadership of the institute wants ICAN to be like ANAN , and they are all about giving the certificate for money. They currently have a proposal to allow those GL 14 and above in the civil service accounting roles to pay #1.4 Million, to skip over 90% of the institutes exams and get the certificate. Rather, than maintain rigorous and integrity and hope for a competent administration, they’d prefer to impair the quality of the institute so they can be here and there in a public sector that currently don’t serve Nigerians. The public sector should defend us against the private sector and against international economic adversaries. It should require success in the most rigorous and intellectually exerting experience to hold such position, but it’s not so here. We cannot have CFAs or really grounded ACAs in the sectors and our currency will continue to deteriorate, but even now, the last standing indigenous institutions are willing to trade their credibility for a seat at the table of the powerful incompetent and clueless lots. There is perhaps none, not already infected, to provide coherent advise to the clueless administration.

To become an economic adviser to the CBN governor, it’s not even a question of competence. It’s all, a question of interest.

The CBN must be a government institution for the people. All through the Buhari administration, it wasn’t.

The CBN made billionaires out of bureau de change operators. It may have been the naive viewpoint that the Naira falling extremely hard against the dollar would incentivize folks to produce more for export and so improve the country’s GDP and increase the demand for Naira- thereby strengthening the Naira, but then again as Friedman said, we don’t judge such policies by their intentions but by their results. Nigeria and Nigerians has gained nothing and has lost now and also lost in the long run.

It’s the same with these monetary policies. And why it’s because such policies are naive. It looks like someone making national economic decision just by reading an introductory economic text with no idea, that other economic actors or adversaries are capable of responding and undermining your intentions. Except, the policies are grounded, rigid in implementation, flexible in responding to the adversaries reactions, framed with anticipation of such adversaries responses; except, even the best intended policies will fail.

The corrupt politicians have access to dollars. CBN don’t think dollars can be used to engineer electoral malpractice?? Tinubu or Atiku or Obi will emerge. The lots have an interest in the continuation of the old currency. Emefiele is assured there will be a reversal, but political intents drives him, to make an impact in the short term and at what cost?? Putting the rest of us, pawns in economic jeopardy.

Emefiele is the presidency.

All Emefiele’s talking points.

Now, when the people resist, there will be a breakdown and the elections won’t hold as scheduled.

This does not serve some of the candidates and so, they will ensure otherwise.

If Nigerians protest, they will not only be resisted by the country’s security apparatus, even Oluomo would help to quell such protests.

In April 2022, Pastor Adeboye did say that the 2023 election might not hold.

With love, you all can win her over.

AKA is one of Africa’s finest musicians (rap). I hope Tupac 🥷 Biggie don’t play out again. Nasty C has to beef up his security.

Learning is a continuous endeavor.

In the academics, even a professor can be a student. I know a professor of accounting in Calabar who became a chartered accountant last year. The certification had alluded him for years and years. In the course of his pursuits, and the frustration of making no headway as such; the demand of the exam required him to learn from several people without a PhD. The professor of accounting did ICAN for over a decade as a professor. Today, he has achieved his dream. Very soon, if he keeps up with his humility, he may get a chance to deliver induction lectures, contribute to the institute syllabus and all at the institute, becoming even more relevant to the institute than FCAs.

Even at the tertiary level, your undergraduate students can become a professor or get a PhD before you do. In a couple of years, if the teacher keeps up , she might become a commissioner of education. It’s all the circle. Continuous learning is what matters. And every moment, the world is moving. Yesterday, you are a graduate, today, a thousand more. Just keep learning and endeavoring to contribute.

I am proud of the teacher. I think at her level, nursery school teacher, she may not even have had NCE, but today, she is onwards towards becoming even more. I hope the lecturer as well, continues to develop himself.

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It’s funny. Because, you cannot forcefully compel economics. Market forces will often always triumph over directives such as issued by the SUG. The intent may be great, but the consequences in reality will be greater.


There is a limitation as to what the POS merchants can withdraw from the bank. The merchants have to spend hours at the ATM to even make withdrawals. Some of them have resorted to buying cash from filling stations or other cash based businesses.

So, the merchants that cannot comply with the SUG directive leaves the school. That means, you have less cash available for students from POS. For the merchants that remains in the school, with the CBN policy, it will be impossible for them to fulfil the demands that arise as a result of the gap created by the POS merchants that left the school.

Those left behind, will be crowded. Even, outsiders from around the school area will want to benefit. They won’t be able to meet students demands. The amount the POS merchants can withdraw remains a constraint.

Students again will have to seek alternatives then, and they will have to go outside school to more exorbitant POS merchants. Now, as at the moment, POS business is not attractive, so no new POS merchants except the SUG empowers students not just with POS but with cash to do the business.

The SUG does not know its power is limited. In the end, they have no power to assure the POS merchants that are willing to make losses today, that in the future, they will be given priority as to expansion of their business within the school. If they had such power, such an incentive might keep the POS merchants from exiting.

At least the EFCC was able to secure the convictions of some internet fraudsters.

Under the Buhari administration, the parastatal was a toothless bulldog wasting our resources on pretentious prosecutions that they do not intend to win.

Shame on the judiciary too, for not convicting the EFCC of its blatant incompetence.

Even when they were open, was it readily available

How NLC allows NGIGE to participate is not at all strange. NLC has failed Nigerians.

This is one of the pseudo public intellectuals that tricked us into Buhari. If they had any integrity, they only ought to lend their voice or talent to the business of nollywood and make no abysmal recommendations to Nigerians.

Serial opportunists, they are. Always jumping on whatever thrives their social media pages.

No substance whatsoever. Yet not one of those can probe, how exactly and what plans are in the run towards such.

How can you even have political rallies with the situation of things in the country??


That said, in states like Katsina, what matters is the recruitment of the political elites. If the Yaradua matriarch or the emir endorses you or some imams, they are more than sufficient. The grassroots listens.

In the south, there is a want of leadership. Obasanjo is so off. He sacrificed his political influence just to get rid of Jonathan.

Now, his endorsements means absolutely nothing. No one takes him seriously or court his support. No one is voting for Peter Obi because Obasanjo said they should. In Obasanjo voting unit, his anointed candidate would not even win.

The same with Jonathan, becoming an errand boy for Buhari. All of them, contributing their quota to the woes Nigerians experienced during the Buhari administration.

Killings in the north are no longer newsworthy. You know how many vigilantes died only in a day last week? Yet the news media can only give them less than a minutes, because such disasters have become the norm, economic woes is the norm, suffering is the norm.

Obasanjo should know better, that Buhari wasn’t a better alternative to Jonathan. Obasanjo could have helped out, by using his intelligence to identify that the northern elites in Jonathan’s administration were frustrating his campaign against insecurity, but never, he was key to throwing Jonathan under the train.

Obasanjo even now, does nothing else for Peter Obi. He has no structural resources to back up his endorsements of Obi. If Obasanjo was smart, he could have built a cult following, that would have sustained his influence on this country, but he traded all that to bring down Jonathan and did so in very uncharacteristic manner.

Those that matter in Katsina are not like Obasanjo. They would not even address our conventional media in their endorsement. All is done within, and yet more than anybody else, they court the most significant political positions in the country.

Katsina outing is good if you win the Yaradua matriarch over.

It may be the case, that they took a loan from China, to be able to come to such terms. There is, in the end , no free lunch anywhere. Tinubu has shown unwillingness to exacerbate the suffering of Nigeria, for any climate change agenda. Google and Meta are invested in the endeavor. They may as well be bias due to sentiments of the aspirants.

Yet, clueless people. Will they flag end to end encrypted broadcast messages on WhatsApp. Twitter is the pool . The Nigeria Facebook community does not engage in politics as such. Nigeria’s online political discussion thrives on Twitter. Yet it is Facebook they are concerned about.

With the Supreme Court judgment for Lawan, the NIC judgment on ASUU. The judiciary is one of the institutions keeping the nation backward. In this election, its judges are available for hire to the highest bidder.

That said, Atiku’s decision to forgo 5 states is a prediction of what his presidency can mean for Nigeria. The G-5 governors were probably on an ego trip. AYU could have stepped aside, but still be in charge. Atiku would use all he can, to win…and after victory, restore AYU as the chairman, but not Atiku, what matters to him is not the dissatisfaction of a region.

It’s all plus and minus to him, if Deborah has to be condemned to death in order for him to win, yes, he is willing to jettison all Christians to retain the support of his core north. He’s not healthy for a pluralized nation.

But Christ died for sinners. It appears no compassion whatsoever.
How is the fellow even a sinner??

“Throw the stone, Judge not”. How is this not clear?

A member of your church has died, a worker too. The revelation shouldn’t be one to require castigations or aspersions or condemning;

so in the next sermon , the priests say,

“this fellow brought shame to the church and God struck him down, rejoice everyone”

would Christ say so??

God sees the heart.

To show as though the opposite sex, with all its demands, has to only be to the fellow, a genuine source of relief. was a worker yet in the church. Even, if wasn’t, that does not take away the love God has for the kinds. And the death is what it is. Priests and popes die too, saints die young too, in accidents. Such priests are not paedophiles.

It should be about praying for the soul, and comforting the loved ones.

When they cannot access cash, to run their essential daily needs and have to stay days on queue in order to get just #10,000.

They would have died before the election then.

Buhari’s legacy has been unmistakable. In his prior administration and this one, his greatest success has been to inflict greater economic woe on the people.

There is the argument in some quarters that Peter Obi benefits from the policy that has caused significant hardship for the people, because the lack of cash will reduce powerful politicians ability to engage in electoral malpractice or electoral fraud such as vote-buying.

You say you want to hurt the ability of the buyer to buy votes. If their is no Naira, folks will collect dollars. Whether it’s a joke or not. Actually, No to the above and the one before it. The lack of cash will increase the value of cash, and create more incentive to hoard and value currency. When demand is not met, the people become more predisposed to selling their votes for cash. So, rather than get these people out of poverty, so that they have no incentive to sell their votes, you naively think increasing their economic woe will detract them from such an act. No, in the end, the ability of the buyer is not any diminished in a more economically weakened immune populace. It can’t be in a country where a dollar bill is available but equally remains desirable in the town. Or where, at the outskirts, religion and tribe is another currency.

You have to be naive to actually think Emefiele is working in Obi’s interest. Emefiele is working in Emefiele’s interest. And undecided voters are watching you, and wondering how much suffering you will make them endure in an Obi’s presidency.

The cabal is at play, and Obi is no knight, he is a pawn, he may think he is the queen but even Emefiele is a pawn. All of these Emefiele’s corrupt well thought policies in the end and to the long term serves the ego damaged cabal and perhaps Atiku.

You remain clueless if you can’t put the failure on the right person.

It’s not the POS merchant that has caused this.

There is nothing wrong in his lifestyle as such. He knows how to generate press and interest. The ability to make rewarding noise is the attribute of a bright fellow. Just like Korra, they know what needs to be done.