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naptu2:
O'tega "The Tiger" Ogra is the Senior Special Assistant on Digital/New Media to the President

O'tega Ogra @otegaogra

“When you point one finger, four others point back at you.” ~ African Proverb

Supporters of the individual seen in this video talking about him giving grants of ₦7,000 to ₦10,000 for micro businesses, and explaining why it is a good thing to the beneficiaries, suddenly have…

— O'tega Ogra (@otegaogra) June 27, 2026

Grants by a private citizen is what u are comparing to a 1stv lady telling people to fry akara and roast corn? After impoverishing the people and destroying the economy?

Do u guys know we are back into a super hyper inflation?

jaxxy:
Grants by a private citizen is what u are comparing to a 1stv lady telling people to fry akara and roast corn? After impoverishing the people and destroying the economy?

Do u guys know we are back into a super hyper inflation?

Here's another person that does not know anything at all.

The First Lady is a private citizen and what is being spent is not government money.

Besides, that's not the point. The point is that those people claimed that 10k tradermoni was too small and couldn't do anything at that time, but the same 10k became perfect when it was Peter Obi.

But I don't expect you to be able to comprehend such simple things.

This thread is dead. I've moved to the next thread.

I will post a link to the new thread later this morning.

BATified2023:
I can bet if I tell u to drop your aza for 2k now u fo rush drop am

Online billionaire but broke dudes offline

You never even comot the akara from fire, you done dey brag.

stuffs2002:
You wey dey collect 2K per month sef dey talk.

N50K go pay your 2years salary

Chai!!!!
Una own done better. N50k na any person mate? Bros enjoy.

Abeg you get kwuli-kwuli N30?

Even in the US, not everyone has the same opportunity. Stop deceiving yourself.

SixSeven:
I just want you to know that not everyone will have the type of opportunities the children of APC will get.

Do you know the import of this sentence?
The APC Constitution Preamble explicitly defines the party as an organization of "true progressives and patriots". It states a foundational commitment to:

1. Building a nation that will "guarantee equal opportunity for all".

2. "Eliminating all forms of discrimination and social injustice among Nigerians".

When the children of top party officials enjoy exclusive access to foreign education, premium medical care, and secure government appointments while over 20 million ordinary children are out of school, the party is operating in direct contradiction to its own founding philosophy of equal opportunity. Humour me before we buy the ticket to the US.

Where does one start from to deconstruct this hubris?

Who's interested in reading your crazy dissertation! In 2026 a leader talking about frying Akata should be a felony
I'm

naptu2:
Mrs Tinubu was referring to the people that she gave grants of ₦50,000 each, not to you






Shehu Sani, Desmond Elliot, Muhammadu Buhari, Yemi Osinbajo and Oluremi Tinubu, Peter Obi.

I do not seek fame because being famous would mean that you have to deal with the opinions of many stupid people.

I know somebody who belongs to a charitable organisation. Many years ago I came across her while she was writing a letter to one of their partners. There were several interesting things in her letter and she took the time to explain them to me.

In the letter she referred to the people that she was helping as, "My master". She explained that this was what they did in her organisation so that they would put the beneficiaries first. It would prevent them from looking down on the beneficiaries and it would force them to respect the beneficiaries.

There was another thing she said that I was already familiar with. That thing is the subject of this post.

She said that they don't act like they have all the answers and they don't act like they know all. Instead they ask the beneficiaries what they need and that determines the assistance that they give them.


Surprisingly this is something that many Nigerians cannot understand.

Forgotten example

This was on my mind when something happened years ago. Unfortunately I can no longer remember who it was and exactly what he donated, but this story might trigger someone's memory and the person might remind me of the details.

There was a serious uproar on Nigerian internet. What happened? A man had donated somethings to a community and the whole of Nigeria was condemning him.

I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something like wheelbarrows (let's assume that it was wheelbarrows).

Nigerians were livid. "How can you donate wheelbarrows to people? What do you want them to use it for? Would you give wheelbarrows to your children? You want to turn them to labourers? We are in the ICT age and he could have donated things that would take people out of poverty, yet he is donating wheelbarrows to keep them in poverty".

There were all kinds of very loud, angry and st up id reactions. The photos went viral and the reactions were so loud that they got to the donor and so he made an explanation.

I can't remember for certain, but I think I created the thread about the donor's explanation.

The donor explained that he had been donating things to communities for decades and that he has learnt a lot from the practice. One of the things that he learnt was that he shouldn't just go and give the community whatever he wanted to give. He does not live with them and his experience is not their experience. They know what they need better than he does.

So he goes and asks them what they need, they tell him and he provides it. This obviously does not stop him from providing what he initially had in mind.

So in the case of this community he donated what he had in mind (I think he donated computers and other things) and he donated what members of the community asked for. Basically, it was members of the community that asked for wheelbarrows. The man posted photos of all the things that he donated and je accused the media of being mischievous because they only posted what would support their agenda.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates said something similar. He said that je was excited when he began doing charity work in Africa and what he had in mind was that he was going to donate computers and software, etc. But then he hit reality.

Of what use are the computers to a child that has not eaten? What use is the software to a child that is dying of malaria? How would the child use the computers if he has not seen the inside of a classroom?

That's why his foundation began focusing on healthcare, education, food security and similar issues.

Bayo Onanuga

Bayo Onanuga did not say that there was no hunger in Nigeria. What he said was that he had not seen that level of hunger in Nigeria.

I told you that he is not a good judge. Bayo Onanuga has owned his own media house (The News, PM News, etc) since the 1990s and he currently works in the Aso Rock Villa. He is a member of the elite. Therefore it's no surprise that he has not seen that level of hunger, but the fact that he has not seen it does not mean that it does not exist.

Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo

The Buhari Administration began the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) in order to boost small businesses in Nigeria.

There were many programmes under the GEEP and these included the TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMoni.

These programmes were not designed by magic. The Bank of Industry conducted a lot of research into the impact of these programmes while designing them. This reseaarch obviously included discussions with potential beneficiaries.

The tradermoni provided the least amount of money. It was designed for petty traders, for example, those that sold things on the roadsides, in corner shops or kiosks.

Beneficiaries were given ₦10,000 interest-free and collateral-free loans. They were required to invest the money into their business. This was level 1. When they repaid the loan (and provided proof that they invested it in their business) they would move to the next level which qualifies them to get a higher loan. The levels were:


Level 1: ₦10,000
Level 2: ₦15,000
Level 3: ₦20,000
Level 4: ₦50,000
Level 5: ₦100,000

Some Nigerians went crazy!

They asked what could ₦10,000 do? Some said that they spent more than that in a night's outing. They asked if government officials would give their children ₦10,000. Some talked about cost of renting a house or a shop, others talked about school fees and cost of a car, etc. You can see that all these people were mad.

The ₦10,000 was not given to finance the life of the beneficiaries. It was given so that the beneficiaries would invest it into their businesses.

Just like Bayo Onanuga, the critics were elites for whom ₦10,000 was nothing. The beneficiaries were not going to spend that money at a club or restaurant. They were going to invest it into their petty businesses. It was meant to enable them increase their stock and make more profit.

Journalists, social media users and others discussed with beneficiaries and all the beneficiaries praised the programme.

Some funny characters claimed that it was vote buying. That's pure nonsense. Otherwise we can also say that everything that government does is vote buying. Almost all programmes of government are designed to make the lives of citizens better so that the citizens will vote for them in the next election. Therefore, going by the claims of the funny characters, everything that government does is vote buying.


Mr Peter Obi

I constantly tell you that all politicians are the same. Obidients often act like Peter Obi is a messiah that will come and turn Nigeria into heaven on earth. They act as if Peter Obi is doing us a favour by contesting presidential elections (have you ever heard such nonsense in your life).

I have often shown (with evidence) that all the major contenders for the presidency will do the same things. They all said the same things about petrol subsidy, dollar subsidy, etc before the elections.

So here is another example.

Obidients condemned the TraderMoni, MarketMoni and FarmerMoni programmes. They asked what will ₦10,000 do in the life of someone. They claimed that it was vote buying.

Mr Peter Obi shamed Obidients by providing the answers to these questions. In the video below he talked about what happened when he gave some traders at the village market ₦10,000.

Was this vote buying?

The transforming power of micro-credit.

Excellent validation for what #TraderMoni and #MarketMoni have been working to achieve (at scale!) since inception. @growthplat_me pic.twitter.com/kL9X6TKZeM

— Tolu Ogunlesi (@toluogunlesi) January 19, 2022

Desmond Elliot

A lie travels very far and fast, while the truth is too slow.

Desmond Elliot has been a victim of this on many occasions. I bet that even today, many years later, many people have never even heard the truth.

There were two times that it was claimed that Desmond Elliot donated things to his constituents and the whole of Nigeria descended on him.

Firstly photos of a toilet went viral and it was said that Desmond Elliot had donated this public toilet.

Critics asked whether a public toilet was the problem of his constituents, some complained that the toilet was too small, etc. Everybody condemned Desmond Elliot and nobody was interested in hearing the truth.

The truth is that it wasn't Desmond Elliot that donated the toilet.

The toilet was part of a pilot project by the Austrian government and facilitated by Ladi Lawanson, the former Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation. It was a biofuel toilet that was designed to convert human waste to fuel.

All Desmond Elliot did was to advocate that some of the toilets should be sited in his constituency. The toilets were always going to be built somewhere in Lagos, so he convinced the owners of the project to site 3 of the toilets in his constituency and they invited him to inaugurate them.

The toilets were built by the Austrian Government.

Similarly, the next year, there was an uproar about a bridge. Some people claimed that Desmond Elliot donated a bridge to his constituency and that it was a substandard bridge.

Desmond Elliot did some projects in his constituency, but his constituents told him that they also need a bridge. They told him to give them the money and they would build the bridge, so he gave them ₦800,000.

Later he saw posts and pictures on social media that he had built a substandard bridge for the community (the youths that built the bridge put up a sign that said that he donated the bridge).


Oluremi Tinubu

The role of first lady was previously not a major role in Nigeria. Mrs Flora Azikiwe acted as hostess to visiting dignitaries.

Mrs Victoria Gowon was a style leader and often appeared in public with her husband and on her own. Women often copied her fashion styles.

Mrs Ajoke Muhammed was more reserved and she only began her activities (gardens) after she left the office of first lady.

The first lady role was not really performed during the Obasanjo, Shagari and Buhari eras.

It was Mrs Maryam Babangida that made the role a major charity role.

Mrs Babangida had her Better Life For Rural Women (later called Better Life For Rural Dwellers) through which she tried to improve the lives of people living in rural areas.

She had her annual First Lady's Children's Concert, where the child xylophonist Udo Maryam was discovered.

I have told you about the donation circuit. Mrs Babangida had similar programmes where wealthy people donated a lot of money that she used to fund her programmes.

In fact, I've still got a video of one of those events, but I'm too lazy to go and look for it.


All first ladies since Mrs Babangida have had similar charity programmes.

Mrs Oluremi Tinubu has had her New Era Foundation since she was first lady of Lagos State. She also runs a spelling bee competition and other such activities.


Recently a fake story, that Mrs Tinubu was telling Nigerians that they should go into akara frying and corn roasting, has gone viral. What really happened?


Mrs Tinubu had a meeting with wives of state governors and they reviewed their charity programmes. She addressed the media outside her office after the meeting. She was telling the media what they discussed and that's where the clip came from.

What she actually said

She said that they had given money (grants of ₦50,000 and above each) to women and that these were grants not loans. She said that the money was enough to help the women start businesses, they could fry akara or roast corn, at least these are very easy to start.

She said that they had also given

₦2 billion for tuberculosis,
₦1 billion for breast cancer,
and ₦500 million to tackle food malnutrition.
They had provided scholarships
And they had provided ICT training

"We're trying to give hope. To start akara business doesn't take much; to start roasting corn doesn't take much. We didn't give them a loan; we gave it to them as a grant. We have encouraged Nigerians as best as we could. What is within our hands, I have given, and I keep… pic.twitter.com/hdgTeAss8M

— TheCable (@thecableng) June 25, 2026

That's what really happened.


Shehu Sani

During Ramadan and Eid Senator Shehu Sani distributed 12 camels, several cows, and foodstuffs worth ₦15 million to his constituents. These went viral and led to criticisms with some people calling him the "Camel Senator".

He received even more criticism when he distributed 100,000 world band radios to his constituents. A former Nairaland moderator (who is now popular on Twitter) asked whether anyone still listens to radios. He is obviously unaware that radios are a major source of political awareness in northern Nigeria.

naptu2:
Here's another person that does not know anything at all.

The First Lady is a private citizen and what is being spent is not government money.

Besides, that's not the point. The point is that those people claimed that 10k tradermoni was too small and couldn't do anything at that time, but the same 10k became perfect when it was Peter Obi.

But I don't expect you to be able to comprehend such simple things.

The 1st lady is NOT a private citizen. She gets money from government directly or indirectly or let remi tell u what private business shes into abd where she gets billions from to donate privately.

2ndly is govrrnment supposed to be giving 10k tradermoni like Peter Obi who is a private citizen? Did Peter Obi tell u 10k is all the people need?

Professor822714:
Who's interested in reading your crazy dissertation! In 2026 a leader talking about frying Akata should be a felony
I'm

You have never made sense and you are not important, so nobody cares if you read or not.

Stop trying to force yourself on people that don't care about you

jaxxy:
The 1st lady is NOT a private citizen. She gets money from government directly or indirectly or let remi tell u what private business shes into abd where she gets billions from to donate privately.

2ndly is govrrnment supposed to be giving 10k tradermoni like Peter Obi who is a private citizen? Did Peter Obi tell u 10k is all the people need?

Like I said, you have never made sense.

The first lady is a private citizen and that money is from private sources, but I'm not going to waste my time engaging with someone that does not know anything.

The whole thing will be in my next thread. You and your wrong opinion don't matter

Goodbye, don't bother replying because I won't read it.

naptu2:
Like I said, you have never made sense.

The first lady is a private citizen and that money is from private sources, but I'm not going to waste my time engaging with someone that does not know anything.

The whole thing will be in my next thread. You and your wrong opinion don't matter

Goodbye, don't bother replying because I won't read it.

U know the truth about what really happens but lets pretend shes a private citizen and the money isnt government money but from private sources. Mama patience jonathan money was also from private sources but buhari was probing her and seizing her properties. Lol

🤣 You mean that Jaxxy is still wasting his time and trying to get my attention?

I only engage with serious people.

naptu2:
🤣 You mean that Jaxxy is still wasting his time and trying to get my attention?

I only engage with serious people.

I dont care or need ur attention. Im here to state facts only and dont care who likes it or not aslong as its the truth.

U made a post on a public forum and i can respond to it as i deem fit. Its not for ur attention alone but for others too who u are trying to decieve.

Sensible people already know where money for charity comes from and it will be spelt out in my next thread.

But on the other hand, people like Jaxxy will keep wallowing in ignorance. Arrogant ignorance.

so you think ₦50000 can start akara business and turn you to a millionaire...funny how these leaders have seen its citizens so low. Just ₦1000 for transportation will finished that ₦50000 Only God can deliver Nigerians from Nigeria itself. God help us

BATified2023:
so obi said 10k is enough and u hailed him but the first lady said 50k upward n u are condemning her

That's y people don't take u lots serious, u are freaking hypocrites

Let him first become president then see wetin them go tell am

I've changed my mind, I will create the follow up thread on Monday. I've got a lot to post, so I need to take my time.

BATified2023:
God bless u

Funny enough the same people who always call others lazy for not doing anything are the ones criticizing the first lady

you know say Nigerian girls sabi form,she shouldn't have told them that,it sound demeaning to them

mascot87:
The day you decide to ignore the noise of this online bandits, the faster you make them irrelevant.

Peter Obi: 10k will help market women in there business
Online bandits: Yes, that's my president

Mrs Remi Tinubu: 50k - 150k grant will help market women in there business
Online bandits: What an insensitive woman, what will that money do. Can any of her family use that amount to run a business...... and the ranting goes on and one.

The moral is that no matter what whom they hate does, they will criticise it and praise the person they like who did far less.

Is Peter Obi a govt official? Does he have the legislative power to lift people out of poverty? Make it make sense.

BATified2023:
so obi said 10k is enough and u hailed him but the first lady said 50k upward n u are condemning her

That's y people don't take u lots serious, u are freaking hypocrites

Please do not misconstrue what he said, please show the full video. Also note that he has no legislative powers he is making the donations in his personal capacity. The first lady in our Nigeria of today has office and allocation so these are different scenarios.

PDPdestroyer:
They’re a living proof of the Olodo uprising that we have been talking about. Since their emergence towards the 2023 elections, there’s been a dearth of intelligent contributions to political discourse on social media. I had to exorcise my nephew of the Obidient spirit before he started thinking like a normal human should

On the contrary you guys are living proof of olodo uprising. That is why you are clearly and boldly because of propaganda 30k salary would support nonsense.

emkz:
People are shouting about small and medium enterprises.

Does akara, kulikuli and corn not fall in this category?

One thing is that no matter how bad the condition, people must eat. Go to several countries, and you will be amazed at how well people live from small business. See this picture, his name is Brad Ribar. He is referred to as corn king and runs a successful corn stand at state fairs in Minnesota.

In Nigeria, we are too quick to attack.

Look at this his business in Minessota, can't you see that there is massive capital that was poured into that business? Remi Tinubu said that you don't need much to start corn business. Ask those roadside corn sellers in Nigeria today if what they make a month is enough to pay rent in a face me I face you talk more to raise a family.

BATified2023:
hypocrite

Keep quiet there, so obi is not the president does that mean he can't give those women 5 million naira each?

Y did he decided to give them 10k?

He is a private citizen it is not his perogative to empower people to lift them out of poverty. It is the responsibility of govt to do that.

FarahAideed:
This one supported Buhari for 8 years and now is supporting someone worse than Buhari for another 8 years

His case is already pathetic, he is doing the job of Onanuga on Nairaland

New lies have come up.

"The money is from government" and other stories.

These stories will be dealt with on Monday.

Elusive001:
Chai!!!!
Una own done better. N50k na any person mate? Bros enjoy.

Abeg you get kwuli-kwuli N30?

Kulikuli seller get money pass you after all they received N50K
You will get kulikuli N30 but just spend your N2k/month because your money will soon run out

Pity the weird people.

They cannot counter anything that I wrote, but they are paid spin doctors, so they have to do something.

The only thing that they can do is to accuse me of being them.

Ladies and gentlemen, these people have been paid by politicians to post on Nairaland, but they have no sense, so they can't make sensible contributions, so all they can do is insult and throw around false allegations.

Pity them, their job is too hard.

There are some people here that I should block, but I won't block them because I want them to be able to entertain me on the next thread.

I will block them after the next thread.