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Rufai Oseni should go and become a blogger. First lady asking our artists to get more involved in charity is not asking for too much. They attend GALA in the USA where funds are raised for the Arts and so many other things. Our artists even play in some of these charitable events abroad.

Most times when the President or First Lady is going to events, say commissioning of the Abuja entrance, lots of people will follow and their security entourage as well. Even for Burial at Maryland USA that I attended, it was close to or more than 50 vehicles that went there. So imagine first lady with 2 security vehicles, ambulance...that is already 4...then Senate President, FCT Minister, and other invited guests. All of them will not travel separately and you cannot tell the security protocol for the First Lady to also guide the Senate President or the one for Senate President to guide the FCT Minister.

In the USA, you may not see them like this, but they travel days in advance and station snippers along the routes ...they even move special vehicles and use helicopters and so on...probably more expensive than burning gasoline. One of the reasons I find it hard to ever consider running for office is because instead of people asking questions to understand, they prefer to remain ignorant and make assumptions or make insinuations. Until we change our mindset, we would never trust our leaders.

Glimpsetv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKSfOfKhWaU?si=3mAQBEVRtB8AIOzh

The president’s wife says musicians should buy less Ferrari and co and spend more for charity

Can govt officials also reduce their convoy pic.twitter.com/PEvYiLXFK0

— oseni rufai (@ruffydfire) July 12, 2026

LordLicifer:
Wow! See how this one is just trying so hard to make excuses for Teenubu and his looting corrupt govament, it is not the govament fault it is the people's fault that president wife is wasting millions on irrelevant convoys, it is the people's fault for not taking opportunities that are not even there.. . It is the people's fault, it is the people's fault that the an un elected wife of the president is wasting the people's moneym

I stand corrected

I hinted with my last paragraph that the problem with Nigeria is not lack of resources including human resources which is the bedrock of any enterprise but lack of orientation.

To you, it seems that I am defending the government. Well I will say that is your opinion. You are entitled to it and even goes further to not agree with my contributory comment.

But in the spirit of at least sharing more light to what I am trying to say, let's assume you have 0 naira in your bank balance. No connection, No access to government funds, but you have a burning desire that in your locality alone, there are about 60,000 people living there. And that's your local government. A mixture of rich, middle class, a little bit of scattered wealthy individuals and a majority of low class income households.

As an individual who thinks government is suppose to provide everything, you only see few people who are doing well and majority are in the same class of the 0 - 10k naira bracket. And you majorly complain about how bad everything is.

A common mistake people often make is, they assume wealth is a short cut process. It is not.
Mind you, I am not talking about having money, anybody can have money, but not everyone can be rich, and not everyone who is rich will be wealthy. You have to decide first hand your own capacity, not wishful thinking but actual capacity of your strength, your character, moral ethics and the value you posses before hand.

Operating from here, you will find that it is quite easy to step back a little bit, and fully digest what problem is it you can solve in your locality that will benefit them as well as you in the long run.

The first step is always commonality. What do you think you or all these people have in common? The simplest one that comes to mind is, like it or not you all must eat.

Feeding is a mandatory daily obligated objective, either rich or not.

Now comes another question, what food is commonly consumed. Besides the ones you can cook and all that which easily comes to mind, depending on how far your train of thought pierces though your mind, let's say you eventually settled on bread.

Now before you start imagining you want to be hawking bread, you are at liberty to take it a bit further what makes a profitable bakery run properly.

A lot of business and enterprises works, if it doesn't people won't be doing it. However the general concept is always either being to eager about it or overcomplicating the operations of it. It's not about will this work, one of the first issue is what won't make this work.

Now you may have the thought for physical location first..staffs and all sort logistical issues to resolve, the simplest way to start any venture is to start with the most simplest form of it. While people think bakery is all about a building, it doesn't necessarily have to be. With the help of oven(not necessarily gas oven.. it could be coal with proper insulation) with this you can easily produce 500-600 loaves every week.

While that number is minimal at first, but it does get your foot in the door. And that is where you want to be. Just get your foot in the door. See it as a different avenue to whatever you have going on. And learn every aspect of it. From flour ingredient procurement to baking standard.

Then comes the idea of how you are going to raise the start up capital. This is where you the person and the value you can create comes into place making use of every avenue possible.

There's a study that shows that an average human being personally have a relationship with at least 100-150 people at any given time. Think of your church, your mosque, your estate chairman, like-minded people who you know are like you who probably know one or two people that you may need. By the time you compound the list all together you should be able have a sizeable chunk of at least 50 people as your leads.

With that in mind, before even approaching anyone of them, take the initiative to know how much a bag of flour cost, what ingredients do bread need and the kind of bread you yourself likes to eat and the ones you know some housewives, single ladies, aboki indomie likes. This is all market survey. With a bit of leg work, this are free of charge information just laying there for to extract.
The same goes for oven that can handle 50-60 loaves of bread at once.

With this information, and having the sought the best knowledge of it's logistics and cost of operations, it shouldn't be a headache to outline at least the first potential 20 people that you will pitch the enterprise to.. with the best clarity of explanation, outline what you have sourced, agreements you have in place for people you will be supplying to and inherently make them understand you have already sourced the oven and everything lined up, you can even go as far as making them understand that you have already had a memorandum of understanding with all necessary aspect of the operation.

And now you are raising capital and willing to give not only a percentage of the profit when it starts coming on weekly or biweekly basis but also a stake in the business as it grows.

While you are not requesting for a huge amount like 500,000 or so, within 50k-100k is all you are bargaining for. With a total number of 50 prospective leads at least 4-5 will return your call..unless you are an Unorganized individual that they feel you will be a bad investment on their side.

While the initiative still goes on as to when and how you will be repaying, the idea is simple enough to carry out.. and this goes the same way for any other larger enterprise. Which by then requires more rigorous approach.

Belief it or not, a lot of people have money laying around that they will gladly give out to serious minded people whom they know can help themselves and even generate money for their patrons while at it.

Even in Nigeria a lot people do it for the sake of prestige. No strings attached. Just out of pure prestige.

Many people running large pure water company started from someone's compound and not even with a single vehicle to deliver with in the beginning.

Like I said, it depends on the lens you are seeing the society you live in with. We are not a developed country. We are even still trying to get close to the status of a developing country but yet everyone assumes we should be living like the developed world. Study history. There's a reason they say Rome wasn't built in a day.

I did my best to dial the tone down, not particularly for you, but at least someone who may or will likely see beyond what I am even trying to outline and make proper use of it.

It will be best if the government looks for ways to stop multiplying poverty so that even if these musicians want to help, they won't be overwhelmed.

If one is a first lady and doesn't have wise words to dish out whenever they open their mouths, it's better they don't talk at least people will assume their silence for wisdom m

The bullion van you people have, what happen to it. The Snake swallowing Nigeria Money.

Do what I say, don’t do what I do.

Why does anybody need a convoy of over 30 cars? God abeg who cursed these people?

This is why I said she should be the second to last to say what she said.... and Tinubu the last. The convoys are getting even bigger. I was hoping Asake... Burna Boy or Davido will clap back at her with this kind video .

floss:
Do you know that a government that's performing in transparency and honesty, that understand the pain of an average Nigerian by cutting cost of running government rather than running a traditional yoruba owanbe government... Nigerians in diaspora wouldn't mind to even donate as low as 50k naira each to cushion relief of fellow Nigerians living in Nigeria and improve welfare of Nigerians .... People key into transparent ventures and ready to be good citizens if tulumbu can confess his crimes and how he helped brought Nigeria to her knees through Apc .... I believe Nigerians are benevolent enough to forgive him and his family and he can build a new Nigeria where criminals irrespective of past relationships are put inside prison.... Sign a law that says

If you steal public funds from henceforth irrespective of who you're, whether elected or appointed, you will be executed on national tv

Then you will see Nigeria become the new sort out bride and pride of Africa...

Guess what, one region will not like this arrangement.... You see why a lot of Nigerians are against tulumbu Apc government and their supporters

In case you missed it. It's down here

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Some people will wake up in the morning, eat and then buy data to start defending the rubbish. In their minds, they are doing great bc they live in a compound that's not face-me-I-slap you and they have 2013 (13 years old) Benz to show.

When God wants to punish humans, he(?) creates them as Nigerians.

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loffyloffy:
It is only a fool like Useni that will believe that every vehicle in that entourage belongs to the first Lady. This are individual vehicles from various govt agencies atenditing the events as part of her entourage. This vehicle serves multiple other purposes.

There is nothing wrong in her encouraging the wealthy amongst us to be charitable.

In a bid to sound clever you ended up exposing yourself the more.

The first lady is not an elected official so what business could make government agencies put over 200 SUVs on the road with driver and fuel cost just to accompany the first lady?

What state function is so important that we have to burn so much fuel, disrupt traffic and inconvenience the public?

No politician should ever have this kind of convoy, not even the president of he knows what he is doing

PrivateSeal:
Truth be told this government has performed poorly, the advice to Bruna, Davido and Co is good, but it has to come from rational mind.

Why would anyone even ask them for anything if Tinubu has done what he was elected to do?

I love this.......Best comment so far

PrivateSeal:
Truth be told this government has performed poorly, the advice to Bruna, Davido and Co is good, but it has to come from rational mind.

loffyloffy:
It is only a fool like Useni that will believe that every vehicle in that entourage belongs to the first Lady. This are individual vehicles from various govt agencies atenditing the events as part of her entourage. This vehicle serves multiple other purposes.

There is nothing wrong in her encouraging the wealthy amongst us to be charitable.

Have you seen the entourage of the spouses of any former or present prime ministers of Belgium, Netherlands or even that of the Chancellor of Germany ?

Hightablevoice2:
I think it is fair to say the man has done what was expected of him by his major stakeholders. While those interest in general does not reflect or in anyway have a wild effects on majority of Nigerians, the simple and yet irrevocable aspect of his government is that he has opened a lot of doors to make enough money if you just know where to look.

In all ways, Nigerians and the government has never had a relationship. They do what they think it's best, and the citizens complain and the underlining understanding of their excuse is you can never please everyone.

Majority has always complained, while the complain may stem from different context, the reality is the percentage of people who benefit from government and those who don't will always be the same. It is just how the human race are presently. Sure there may be more of us today, but the percentage of winners and those on the otherside have always been the same.

For any serious government to solve Nigeria problem, it will not only take a radical move but also a bold one at that. Everyone one isn't going to be a billionaire, and in Nigeria where influence through wealth is the most potent language, almost everyone feels they are being left behind while they see some others eat from the fruit of the nation.

As much as a lot of things are not working in this country, and the complain is over the top, every progressive mind knows problems equals opportunity. This opportunities, a lot of Nigerians are not seeing it. Making use of it becomes a matter of not knowing what to do.

An average Nigerian who works in bank, doesn't even know how to structure a deal let alone have the essence of it to raise capital to finance the deal. Everything is about government like we are living in some socialist state.

While I do not say we are in anyway close to margin of what we should be getting, it will be more productive also to start from somewhere. What Nigeria generates can not sustain Nigeria and that's even when you haven't factor corruption into the picture.

It is left for citizens to see where the cracks in the systems are, take advantage of it. Pooling resources, moving to solve problems minimals ones, creating a new avenue for resources instead of just waiting for the government to handle everything.

I wish there's a possible ways Nigerians have an avenue of people who will come together to tackle one aspect of the problem. In reality when you propose such, the attitude towards it is always the same, what is the government job. And with that attitude, a government who knows his tenure can only run for a limited time of 8 years will do everything to make sure he and not the country will continue to benefit from the time he is able to occupy that space.

The problem with Nigeria is not lack of human resources, it is purely lack of orientation.

Oga what are U talking about?
What has all these got to do with Tinubu asking us to suffer now but him and his fellow politicians are never cutting cost but living large, buying irrelevant things, building houses. So, suffer no good for politicians ? Why should I suffer for something that I didn't do?
I am freelancing and I know how hard it is now due to AI, but Tinubu wants me to make the money and pay him 25 percent of my income as tax after paying heavy VAT. He said they need money to fund Nigeria but they still use crazy convoy, spend heavily on travels, medicals, houses, even spent billions on solar instead of fixing national electricity.
These men just live and waste our money. I hate them all

Only Peter Obi should give such an advice. Besides Burna boy has been doing a lot thought VDM for the community lately. Davido also is generous when it comes to lifting others.

franchasng:
I swear if Tinubu was governing Nigeria with all sincerity, love and unity at heart by carrying every region and tribe along sincerely in his government, making humane but effective policies with the sole aim of growing the entire Nigeria and improving thr lives of all Nigerians and their businesses irrespective of tribe, I would have been glad to even be the first to organize fellow Igbos in my little capacity to rally financial support to support the government through individual contributions.


We Igbos do this a lot. We do it a lot, its part of us, it is what helped Igbo land and communities to succeed and overcame marginalization and sidelining by the Nigerian federal government since the end of the Civil War.


It has helped Igbos a lot and we would have been glad to do same to support Tinubu's government if he was leading Nigeria with love, honesty, integrity, empathy.

Stop the crap talk! The person that you people hate before he was born a president. How would you show him the love and support to succeed all becos he defeated your candidate. Una hate him to the large extent of hating his folks and tribe just because they were not in same page with you people. We have seen the line you people drew and we will use it as our determinants in any future electoral poll decision.

haajhi:
This is a time for sober. Dont bring your sentiments and politics here. The person you quote is speaking from the depth of his heart right now the way he can. Dont mess it up. Everything is not about banter.

Then, you can join him in rolling on the floor and wailing.

His long drivel is driven by sentimental reasoning and political alliances. If you can't see that, you lack the capability to contribute to this topic.

U guys are just making noise here, just get your PVC ready and vote them out.

Lzkdy:
It takes a certificate forger and criminal like dis one to be defending evil. By their responses we shall know them

That means you didn't get his drift. It was a sarcastic praise he did on the president and his wife. Didn't you read where he ends it with "unfortunately they can not give what they don't have"

Noblex2011:
You are not making sense here.
He didn't ask or talk about history.
I think to some extent the person was right.
Governance isn't about buying people conscious and ruling against them by force.
Maybe the person was reluctant to let you know that the man is the worst president to rule this country.
If you are not blind, the reality is right in your face.
Go and ask average Nigerians what it means to survive or live in this present Nigeria.
Even the rich are murmured ☹️.
If you are currently enjoying this country presently, you must have been a politician or a well established business person or you are into fraud or you earn in dollars.
Naira is valueless.
Bandits, terrorists and kidnapping on increased
Thing are extremely expensive.
Dem just increased WAEC and NECO fees to 50k.
Government of corruption 👏.

Do you guys even calm down to read at all. That's a sarcastic praise he did on them.
After reeling out those achievement about the president and wife. Didn't you read where he said unfortunately they can't give what they don't have.
Meaning he's berating them for their poor handling of the Nations crisis

Hightablevoice2:
I stand corrected

I hinted with my last paragraph that the problem with Nigeria is not lack of resources including human resources which is the bedrock of any enterprise but lack of orientation.

To you, it seems that I am defending the government. Well I will say that is your opinion. You are entitled to it and even goes further to not agree with my contributory comment.

But in the spirit of at least sharing more light to what I am trying to say, let's assume you have 0 naira in your bank balance. No connection, No access to government funds, but you have a burning desire that in your locality alone, there are about 60,000 people living there. And that's your local government. A mixture of rich, middle class, a little bit of scattered wealthy individuals and a majority of low class income households.

As an individual who thinks government is suppose to provide everything, you only see few people who are doing well and majority are in the same class of the 0 - 10k naira bracket. And you majorly complain about how bad everything is.

A common mistake people often make is, they assume wealth is a short cut process. It is not.
Mind you, I am not talking about having money, anybody can have money, but not everyone can be rich, and not everyone who is rich will be wealthy. You have to decide first hand your own capacity, not wishful thinking but actual capacity of your strength, your character, moral ethics and the value you posses before hand.

Operating from here, you will find that it is quite easy to step back a little bit, and fully digest what problem is it you can solve in your locality that will benefit them as well as you in the long run.

The first step is always commonality. What do you think you or all these people have in common? The simplest one that comes to mind is, like it or not you all must eat.

Feeding is a mandatory daily obligated objective, either rich or not.

Now comes another question, what food is commonly consumed. Besides the ones you can cook and all that which easily comes to mind, depending on how far your train of thought pierces though your mind, let's say you eventually settled on bread.

Now before you start imagining you want to be hawking bread, you are at liberty to take it a bit further what makes a profitable bakery run properly.

A lot of business and enterprises works, if it doesn't people won't be doing it. However the general concept is always either being to eager about it or overcomplicating the operations of it. It's not about will this work, one of the first issue is what won't make this work.

Now you may have the thought for physical location first..staffs and all sort logistical issues to resolve, the simplest way to start any venture is to start with the most simplest form of it. While people think bakery is all about a building, it doesn't necessarily have to be. With the help of oven(not necessarily gas oven.. it could be coal with proper insulation) with this you can easily produce 500-600 loaves every week.

While that number is minimal at first, but it does get your foot in the door. And that is where you want to be. Just get your foot in the door. See it as a different avenue to whatever you have going on. And learn every aspect of it. From flour ingredient procurement to baking standard.

Then comes the idea of how you are going to raise the start up capital. This is where you the person and the value you can create comes into place making use of every avenue possible.

There's a study that shows that an average human being personally have a relationship with at least 100-150 people at any given time. Think of your church, your mosque, your estate chairman, like-minded people who you know are like you who probably know one or two people that you may need. By the time you compound the list all together you should be able have a sizeable chunk of at least 50 people as your leads.

With that in mind, before even approaching anyone of them, take the initiative to know how much a bag of flour cost, what ingredients do bread need and the kind of bread you yourself likes to eat and the ones you know some housewives, single ladies, aboki indomie likes. This is all market survey. With a bit of leg work, this are free of charge information just laying there for to extract.
The same goes for oven that can handle 50-60 loaves of bread at once.

With this information, and having the sought the best knowledge of it's logistics and cost of operations, it shouldn't be a headache to outline at least the first potential 20 people that you will pitch the enterprise to.. with the best clarity of explanation, outline what you have sourced, agreements you have in place for people you will be supplying to and inherently make them understand you have already sourced the oven and everything lined up, you can even go as far as making them understand that you have already had a memorandum of understanding with all necessary aspect of the operation.

And now you are raising capital and willing to give not only a percentage of the profit when it starts coming on weekly or biweekly basis but also a stake in the business as it grows.

While you are not requesting for a huge amount like 500,000 or so, within 50k-100k is all you are bargaining for. With a total number of 50 prospective leads at least 4-5 will return your call..unless you are an Unorganized individual that they feel you will be a bad investment on their side.

While the initiative still goes on as to when and how you will be repaying, the idea is simple enough to carry out.. and this goes the same way for any other larger enterprise. Which by then requires more rigorous approach.

Belief it or not, a lot of people have money laying around that they will gladly give out to serious minded people whom they know can help themselves and even generate money for their patrons while at it.

Even in Nigeria a lot people do it for the sake of prestige. No strings attached. Just out of pure prestige.

Many people running large pure water company started from someone's compound and not even with a single vehicle to deliver with in the beginning.

Like I said, it depends on the lens you are seeing the society you live in with. We are not a developed country. We are even still trying to get close to the status of a developing country but yet everyone assumes we should be living like the developed world. Study history. There's a reason they say Rome wasn't built in a day.

I did my best to dial the tone down, not particularly for you, but at least someone who may or will likely see beyond what I am even trying to outline and make proper use of it.

Wow! Looooong story! Chai! You wan me to read this novel? No way! Man!! I must suggest to you to try writting a book instead you might even make a few coins from it.

You still have not made any comment on or condemn the fact that an un elected wife of the president is wasting tax payers money on unercerssary convoys and large enotourage she doesn't need, that costs the tax payers huge amounts you carefully avoided the main story rather went on a loooong rant blame on the poor struggling citizens..


What is your opinion on Remi teenubu's wasting of tax payers money on convoys? That's all i want to know stop wtitting long stories i am not interested in.

henrybomb:
He said what is right
Where is the lie? Share your opinion too let us see

How many times has he responded to peter OBI many gibberish like that??

Kalulu44:
Do you guys even calm down to read at all. That's a sarcastic praise he did on them.
After reeling out those achievement about the president and wife. Didn't you read where he said unfortunately they can't give what they don't have.
Meaning he's berating them for their poor handling of the Nations crisis

Maybe you were the one that didn't read.
Open your eyes and see what he wrote the defendant 😆

And you think everyone is like you that will badmouth just to make a point. You'll still grow up. Free food and pocket money makes you think life is all about logging in, and bad mouth.

Wickedfacts:
Then, you can join him in rolling on the floor and wailing.

His long drivel is driven by sentimental reasoning and political alliances. If you can't see that, you lack the capability to contribute to this topic.

haajhi:
And you think everyone is like you that will badmouth just to make a point. You'll still grow up. Free food and pocket money makes you think life is all about logging in, and bad mouth.

I am not responsible for your misfortune. You may wish to push your abject self down the road.

Clap for you. You win.

Wickedfacts:
I am not responsible for your misfortune. You may wish to push your abject self down the road.

Clap for you gee. You win.

Wickedfacts:
I am not responsible for your misfortune. You may wish to push your abject self down the road.

tellwisdom:
Stupid woman. Tell your daughters in the USA to sell those properties they bought and help the poor. With the billions wey u and your husband Don steal, na kuli kuli and akara u fit open for yoruba people?

If u like don't secure ur pvc and vote those kleptomaniacs out of office. Una go see shit call am jollof

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣

Dokitto001:
This is sickening.
Wastage is embedded in African man's DNA.

Why do you need all these cars in the convoy?

SHUT UP.

What is a convoy of 50+ cars to PROTECT the President of Nigeria?

The president is undertaking COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC REFORMS that are transforming how this country operates.

He has a Lot of people in and outside Nigeria who hate what he's doing because they have been benefiting from the fraudulent system he is destroying.

The main reason Nigerian leaders use large convoys is because of the assassination of Gen Murtala Muhammed in 1976.

He insisted, against all advice, on travelling without a convoy, and got shot in traffic on his way to work, plunging the nation into shock and grief.

The nation is also seeing banditry and terrorist acts, further creating a security risk for the President who is actively fighting and bombing them as we speak.

So NO. Tinubu will not travel in a convoy of 5 cars or 20 cars just to make OSENI RUFAI happy.

WHEN IT REACHES YOUR TURN OR RUFAI'S TURN TO BE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA, YOU CAN ASK YOUR SECURITY TEAM TO REDUCE OR REMOVE YOUR CONVOY.