₦airaland Forum

Irony1:
Now he is uncouth, you guys are one who do igbo bashing now you are trying to gaslight him.

Sonofgod1990:
Bringing fuel price down to 400 or 500 naira per litter is the only thing that NigerianS need. No need for the billions and the millions.

SmartPolician:
This is really commendable, but I am just wondering where the first lady got all this money she's throwing around from. How much is budgeted for office and how come they don't defend their budget in parliament?

Mbanda:
6 million you made through your sweat is more valuable than billions you made by stealing public funds.

Metrix147:
Source: https://abntv.com.ng/news/president-tinubus-wife-donates-n2bn-to-boost-akwete-fabric-production-receives-traditional-title-in-abia-video/

TopBanter:
What are you talking about bro? Do some of you understand Nigeria at all? Every money she gains must be "looted" ba?

Dude, up your productivity and network. You can earn too. For example, create an idea that can make money and you'd be shocked at the investment fund you can raise if the idea makes feasible and profitable sense. Even private equity funding will float you sufficiently.

A lot of wealthy people in Nigeria. Issue is that many are not charitable or philanthropic in outlook. Yet they will drop serious change for ROI I.e return on investment.

President's wife can raise crazy level of money from many seeking to please the Presidency and ingratiate themselves with Tinubu.

I can drop 10 million donation for the first lady if it will get me consent for an export agro-produce business I am involved in currently Nigerian regulatory authority are deliberately blackmailing me over.

That is how how Nigeria works. Stop kidding yourself. Remi Tinubu, to me, just happens to be more charitable, aggressive and well-intentioned than all other first ladies since 1999.

Way more deliberate and dogged than Stella Obasanjo, Turai Yar Adua, Patience Jonathan and Aisha Buhari.

Of course those who want her husband's favour will indulge her. You want to build a refinery with billion dollars profit capacity a year, currently 1.38 trillion Naira, and seeking FG licence? Will you not drop a billion naira donation for Remi if she lobbies?

You guys are incredibly naive about how Nigeria works. See how she raised 25 billion naira below for her national library project.

MatrixReloaded:
What is her source of income? Show us how this funds are been raised as a public officer. Which budget was signed off for the donations

tonididdy:
I'm not a long reader.
So excuse me if I didn't finish the read but from what I've read so far.
Are you saying Nigerians have no right to know or ask where the first lady without a budget gets 2b and 1b to dish out.
If it's from her personal purse, can she tell us her businesses or jobs in the past and present?
Or is the 2b from her vegetable market at aso rock
Or
her wages as a pastor?

tonididdy:
I'm not a long reader.
So excuse me if I didn't finish the read but from what I've read so far.
Are you saying Nigerians have no right to know or ask where the first lady without a budget gets 2b and 1b to dish out.
If it's from her personal purse, can she tell us her businesses or jobs in the past and present?
Or is the 2b from her vegetable market at aso rock
Or
her wages as a pastor?

Isobug:
Na waoo, this woman get money oo abi na our collective money?
This is commendable though, just spread it across to reach every region not just the place you expect block votes

ufotunang:
..her wages as a former senator

TopBanter:
What is wrong with you guys? Try to rise above your ethno-religious bias against others now and then. Remi Tinubu is the best Nigerian first lady since 1999 in terms of being an aggressive and dogged fundraiser who literally extorts Nigerian leaders, at all levels, for her charitable and empowerment initiative.

That is how it should be. She deserves commendation for all she is doing.

TopBanter:
God bless you. I don't know why people cannot understand it is important for souls to be good, positive and appreciative for a human being to get the best out of life.

You see something positive, praise it and praise the person responsible for it. Simple. The SE lot annoy me because they are always beefing Yorubas but that cannot make me fail, as a progressive person, to praise outstanding Igbo leaders like Soludo, Mbah, Umahi etc.

Wike, from the SS, I watch and love for his outstanding performance. Ditto Umahi. It should be about progress for humanity and support for those who can deliver that

We must all make the effort to have positive and vibrant souls. Carrying blanket hate and negativity up and down for other only drowns souls.

How many first ladies have done as much as Remi Tinubu has? How many have achieved what she has?

Never met her but my elder Sister knows her and is so in awe of our first lady because she says, beyond politics, Remi Tinubu has always supported so many poverty alleviation and women empowerment initiative.

This is my own egbon confirming Remi Tinubu is genuinely kind, caring and concerned about the plight of Nigerians.

My personal worries is that that Nigerians have grown too hateful of each other to ever build a developed nation. We are too different and just faking unity.

I feel we must all jettison 'one Nigeria' and go and develop lives we want through regional autonomy.

The healthy competition will make laggard region shape up because regional autonomy will mean every Nigerian must build from their region or accept being second class if they choose to go and live in the region of others rather than take their leaders to task

There should only be commendation for the first lady here but, as usual, we can see Nigerians are adversarial. What did she do wrong?

Walahi, we will never be ever be able to build a developed nation together. Likely greater regional autonomy first, per how Tinubu is moving, and then outright separation of South and North.

North coalesce into Niger Republic and join their Sahel affiliates because that is what lack of homogeneity of socio-economic and lifestyle ideas between the North and South will cause. We can't avoid it

The Yorubas, my people, will move to get their own nation they can shape in their own image. I am confident we will evolve the SW to the level of at least Turkey in 10 years if we are free of 'one Nigeria' retrogression.

Bfly:
How many developed nations First Lady raises money from politicians to the point of carelessness donating billions of naira to their party members?

This will further undermine our collective development.

Let all of them come out with their financial reports. Oga everywhere in the world people lobby for their gains

If the Nigerian Business environment is merit based you wouldn’t need to pay one First Lady anywhere to get consent because you want to do business.

Kalulu44:
Ah ah! A whole billionaire like you is complaining

oluwaseunamos33:
Using stolen money to deceive people as is they are working

Bfly:
How many developed nations First Lady raises money from politicians to the point of carelessly donating billions of naira to their party members?

This will further undermine our collective development.

Let all of them come out with their financial reports.

If the Nigerian Business environment is merit based you wouldn’t need to pay one First Lady 10m anywhere to get consent because you want to do business.

Christistruth00:
Na insult dem go still insult her.
They were born bitter

oluwaseunamos33:
Using stolen money to deceive people as is they are working

Sonofgod1990:
I'm already in united state with my family. I'm just saying that for you people benefit

TopBanter:
Deal with reality bro. That is how anyone makes progress in life. If Government institution are impeding my business progress, I can key into a donation initiative of the first lady to drop money and then get the audience of her fundraisers to petition about help I need with my issues.

That is the reality of Nigeria. Problem is that most of you keep thinking you can compare our nation to the UK, Canada, Singapore etal when we are at 60 years behind those Countries in terms of human development quotient.

Look at the list of human development index below where Nigeria is all the way down at 164 out of 195 nation.

Of course we must make efforts to be better but we have to accept the reality of how crudely thing are still being done in our nation. Remi Tinubu did not cause it.

Patronage system means you lobby those who can open doors for you. That is how every sector of Nigeria works. I know this as a businessman.

Many will support Remi Tinubu's fundraising initiatives to curry favour. She too understands she can lobby them to access their cash to use for her developmental project whereas they would not ordinarily be charitable unless they believe they have something to gain.

That is our reality for now. Up to you if you don't wish to accept that reality. You can be in hell and pretending it is heaven. This is the issue I have with Nigerians. You are always talking of "developed nations" etc. Do you know how far we are from being a developed nation and how much work we need to put in to get there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

garykoeman:
Same way obi is donating from stolen anambra funds.