₦airaland Forum

diggz:
https://www.nairaland.com/8476406/asari-dokubo-takes-peter-obi

Freedom fighter don chop bellefull. E no dey vex for Tinubu again.

diggz:
https://www.nairaland.com/8476406/asari-dokubo-takes-peter-obi

Freedom fighter don chop bellefull. E no dey vex for Tinubu again.

BlueRayDick:
Normal level.🤦‍♂️

I recently watched a documentary on Prime Video which was based on the militants' agitation in the Niger Delta during the Yar Adua/Jonathan regime which led to the amnesty program.


In the video the oyinbo who went into the creeks to film the plight of the Niger Deltans featured Ateke Tom's camp primarily and showed how the people suffered while the oil drilled beneath their soil fetches the nation sweet dollars.


Ateke Tom was looking like the real deal freedom fighter who is hell-bent on making sure his people get the better life they deserve till his last breath. He looked like he will give his life so FG could make Niger Delta a paradise on earth before they can continue exploration unhindered in the Niger Delta.

I carry my phone enter Google, showed my wife the golden palace Ateke Tom now lives in after FG "fortune" smiled on him while most average Niger Deltans continue to deal with environmental degradation and poisoning of rivers and farmlands due to hydrocarbons. She was shocked and wondered if it was the same guy we watched in the documentary that is now living large and has abandoned the "fight for his people".

Most activists/freedom fighters for Naija na just hustlers wey dey chase their own slice of the national cake.

diggz:
https://www.nairaland.com/8476406/asari-dokubo-takes-peter-obi

Freedom fighter don chop bellefull. E no dey vex for Tinubu again.

BlueRayDick:
Normal level.🤦‍♂️

I recently watched a documentary on Prime Video which was based on the militants' agitation in the Niger Delta during the Yar Adua/Jonathan administration which led to the amnesty program.


In the video the oyinbo who went into the creeks to film the plight of the Niger Deltans featured Ateke Tom's camp primarily and showed how the people suffered while the oil drilled beneath their soil fetches the nation sweet dollars.


Ateke Tom was looking like the real deal freedom fighter who is hell-bent on making sure his people get the better life they deserve till his last breath. He looked like he will give his life so FG could make Niger Delta a paradise on earth before they can continue exploration unhindered in the Niger Delta.

I carry my phone enter Google, showed my wife the golden palace Ateke Tom now lives in after FG "fortune" smiled on him while most average Niger Deltans continue to deal with environmental degradation and poisoning of rivers and farmlands due to hydrocarbons. She was shocked and wondered if it was the same guy we watched in the documentary that is now living large and has abandoned the "fight for his people".

Most activists/freedom fighters for Naija na just hustlers wey dey chase their own slice of the national cake.

Ibime:
https://www.nairaland.com/8476528/cbn-injects-4.1bn-defend-naira

They cannot defend at these levels for too long. Buy your dollars now

Ibime:
https://www.nairaland.com/8476528/cbn-injects-4.1bn-defend-naira

They cannot defend at these levels for too long. Buy your dollars now

Ibime:
https://www.nairaland.com/8476528/cbn-injects-4.1bn-defend-naira

They cannot defend at these levels for too long. Buy your dollars now

TemporaryHansel:
Everybody don leave pdp give wike.

Theflint1:
He might not squeeze Dino, but I don't expect he'd be chummy with him either, meaning he does know to keep a grudge and draw lines, unlike what his fanboys might think of him.

Maybe your guy Tinubu given his deal making persona is less inclined to shut the doors permanently on a "deal/person". That's his style and it has served him over the years, he's not doing it out of the kindness and warmth of his heart (like Gloriousgbola might think), it's his weapon of choice in what has been a brutal rise to the top.

That said, there's a max bandwidth you can expend on dealing with opps, especially those you simply can't cut their heads off like you'd have done in say ancient Babylon. Abacha sef had opps in Nigeria while he was alive, many of whom he unlooked their opposition...maybe we should call him a mellow hearted man too.

MonsieurCoder:
Una done come. $1m in abroad is worth $3M in Nigeria.

How many Nigerians abroad have $3m? How many have $1m?

raumdeuter:
If you are working on a total budget of $1m after all the expenses how much can you possibly pocket

MonsieurCoder:
Let's say you pocket half, $500k. It's still worth it. This is money that'll be untaxed in your home country. You'll need to earn 2x or 3x that in the USA to get an equivalent value. You and I know how hard it is to pocket $500k in cash after taxes in the USA (let's not even talk of broker countries like UK and Canada self). And like I said you'll need 2x or 3x (depending on the city you live) to have the same value in the USA. So how many Nigerians abroad have $1M or $1.5M in cash or liquid assets (not including value of the home they live in)? How many self get $500k in cash?

raumdeuter:
Running a clinic with $1m, Hw much do you think will be personnel cost per year. That is before buying supplies. Before you get the contract how much would you have spent on logistics and watering the ground. Bribes alone can take up to 40% of total cost of project

Ibime:
Arts student shows his true colours once again

Mainland bridge is 230 feet high

The terminal velocity on impact with water from such a height is almost like landing on a solid object and 90% + probability to kill even if you are a fish

LordAdam16:
I disagree.

-Lord

Theflint1:
A post-mortem on Buhari

https://www.1914reader.com/p/sai-buhari

He made other adjustments too. He traded his austere simplicities for tailored suits, courting the urban professionals who had previously dismissed him. Young, sophisticated operatives helped repackage his inflexibility as principled leadership, his economic ignorance as incorruptibility. But these were merely cosmetic touches on a fundamentally political transformation. What sealed his victory was not his rebranding but his willingness, at last, to play the very game he had long professed to abhor.

And so, in 2015, on his fourth attempt, Buhari won. The man who had shown such remarkable energy only when his own interests were threatened had finally secured the ultimate prize.

The arithmetic of misery that defined Buhari's tenure tells its own story. Here was a man who, having failed catastrophically with command economics in the 1980s, returned to power and promptly repeated every mistake with the zeal of someone who had learnt absolutely nothing. His rigidity wasn't merely an intellectual limitation but an active choice to inflict needless suffering on millions whilst maintaining the serene confidence of a man convinced of his own rectitude.

Under his watch, Nigeria's economy grew at an anaemic 1.4% annually whilst the population surged ahead at 2.6% - a mathematical guarantee that Nigerians would grow poorer with each passing year. And poorer they became: GDP per capita plummeted from $2,600 in 2015 to $1,600 by 2023 (World Bank), even as peer nations surged ahea. Two recessions punctuated his tenure, in 2016 and 2020 - though his finance minister memorably reassured suffering Nigerians that recession was merely "a word." Meanwhile, inflation, that most cruel tax on the poor, spiralled from single digits to 22% by his exit, whilst unemployment tripled to 33%, creating a lost generation of young Nigerians with credentials but no prospects.

But it was in his second term that Buhari's economic illiteracy reached its apotheosis. In August 2019, he ordered Nigeria's land borders sealed - a policy he had first attempted as military dictator in 1984. For sixteen months, Africa's largest economy shut itself off from its neighbours, ostensibly to combat rice and drug smuggling. The results were predictably catastrophic: food prices soared, inflation spiked, legitimate traders were ruined, and Nigeria's neighbours seethed at this violation of regional protocols. Yet Buhari persisted, convinced that what had failed in 1984 would somehow succeed in 2019. It was governance by nostalgia. As the misery deepened, the Nigerian vocabulary expanded to accommodate new gradations of suffering. Words like Japa (to emigrate), Sapa (crushing poverty), and Palliative (a bitter shorthand for state failure) entered everyday usage - a vocabulary of struggle proliferating in direct proportion to the economic wounds inflicted upon them.

The human cost of this rigidity defies easy quantification. By 2022, 133 million Nigerians - 63% of the population - lived in multidimensional poverty, suffering overlapping deprivations in nutrition, health, and basic living standards. Child stunting, that most damning indicator of a nation's failure to nurture its future, remained frozen at 32%, with rates reaching 60% in parts of the north. These weren't statistics but stolen futures of millions of children whose cognitive potential was permanently damaged by malnutrition whilst their president pursued his quixotic war against market forces.

Perhaps nothing captured Buhari's indifference to human development more starkly than his appointment of Adamu Adamu as education minister. Adamu, who had desperately wanted to be his chief of staff but lost out in a power struggle, accepted the education portfolio with all the enthusiasm of a vegetarian asked to judge a barbecue competition. For eight years - the entirety of Buhari's tenure - this disinterested placeholder presided over Nigeria's schools. No reforms emerged, no vision was articulated, no urgency animated the ministry tasked with preparing 10-13 million out-of-school children for the future. A school feeding programme, hastily conceived and bedevilled by corruption, stood as the sole monument to eight years of educational neglect. That Buhari left Adamu in post for his entire presidency revealed his fundamental contempt for education, the one ladder by which ordinary Nigerians might escape the poverty his policies had deepened

The person behind this video voice over no fit see heaven 😂😭 pic.twitter.com/WCczJPFG4d

— 𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 (@AsakyGRN) July 17, 2025

Bimmarlykay:
Impact using -feet/hands/back?

raumdeuter:
while resisting Polygamy, Married Astronomer CEO Andy Byron aka GloriousGbola caught with the Head of HR (who is also married) at a concert

Note from treblechamp, when you are out there with your sidepiece always avoid any appearance of a camera

Roland17:
Make Andy just sope O TI LAW!