₦airaland Forum

Video: The current state of Ikare–Ogbagi–Irun–Imesi Road a vital federal corridor connecting communities across Akoko land in Ondo State to Ekiti State and other parts of South West Nigeria. pic.twitter.com/MkR54FuYgC

— Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬 (@ogundamisi) August 31, 2026

givedemwotowoto:

“This is how the Benin–Asaba Expressway looks yesterday, Thursday, August 20, 2026. Look at how cars and trailers are stuck because of the bad road. Mr Peter Obi advised the APC to start fixing existing roads, but instead, they are att@cking him. Instead of Dave Umahi focusing on… pic.twitter.com/k3V0eCNOo8

— CHUKS 🍥 (@ChuksEricE) August 21, 2026

anonimi:
na wa for Utomi and the way he is playing Obi like ludo o

aswani:
Prof Utomi, yes that President Tinubu's Pat Utomi, is in NDC with him still making sure that he is doing enough to ensure that Peter Obí is not a threat to President Tinubu.

To use a footballing parlance, he has close marked Peter Obí out of making important decisions that might threaten President Tinubu in the elections.

Peter Obi should have stayed in ADC and accepted the VP slot. He is now in a much smaller party and his Obidients are being taken for granted in NDC. Prof Utomi did his job well in 2023 and has now exceeded that already.

SixSeven:
2011 is not a new playbook. It was first done in 2003 with Atiku.

Prior to the April 2011 election, the ACN was trying to broker a last-minute northern opposition alliance with Muhammadu Buhari's party, the CPC. When those talks collapsed, Tinubu and the ACN leadership realized that Nuhu Ribadu could not win the presidency on his own.

To protect his political empire, Tinubu met with Goodluck Jonathan. Tinubu's part of the deal was that the ACN would stop supporting Ribadu. Instead, they would secretly tell their followers in the South-West to vote for Jonathan for president. In return, Jonathan promised that the federal government would not rig or steal the state governor elections. He would let the ACN win and rule the South-West.

Ribadu, Acn And The Inside Story Of Tinubu’s Deal With Jonathan By Danlami Nmodu by manchy7531(op): 5:49pm On Feb 11, 2012
https://www.nairaland.com/868704/ribadu-acn-inside-story-tinubus#10174400

ogolemati:
if Agbero chairman remains there next year 1000000 will buy only 20bags of cement

1vandragon:
…Give August 11 deadline over outstanding wage awards, 40% allowance

Less than five days after the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, said savings from the fuel subsidy removal were used to pay public servants’ salaries and wages, among other obligations, the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, JNPSNC, has accused the Federal Government of failing to meet key welfare commitments to workers.

The council has consequently demanded an urgent meeting with the minister over the non-payment of two months’ wage award arrears and the delayed implementation of the 40 per cent peculiar allowance for federal public servants, warning that failure to resolve the issues could trigger a nationwide strike.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/08/pay-us-now-or-face-our-wrath-civil-servants-tell-finance-minister/amp/

fergie001:
We are going through a challenging period economically. I put out a video, yes, our FAAC has gone up but when I came in here the first salary bill I signed was ₦4.5b but today the salary bill is ₦18b. In all of these, the minimum wage then was ₦18000, and today it's ₦80000 but the ₦18000 then can even buy more than what the ₦80000 will get you today. That's the kind of voodoo economics they brought to us. So, we have to sit down, NLC, because our people are challenged economically. The resources are limited but the wage award which ended in September I will extend for another three months. Our subsidy on transport we will continue with it and so again, I want thank all of you especially the workers for your dedication , commitment and support.


Gov Makinde addressing civil servants at the Government House in Agodi

Political power is not served in a restaurant. They don’t serve it à la carte. At all cost, fight for it, grab it, snatch it and run with it.

-Tinubu pic.twitter.com/7zBTCor71X

— Uchen (@Elen_net) August 23, 2026

AMINDA:
They are rather splurging money in buying off candidates of other political parties who agree to step down. What are they afraid of? Is this democracy?

Every Member of the House of Assembly Who Agrees to Forfeit His Ticket for the APC Candidate is Currently Being Given N50 Million, and the House of Reps Will Be Given N200 Million With a Car - Galadima

President Tinubu and all his governors are afraid of contest; they want to… pic.twitter.com/OWZQjFeA3g

— ARISE NEWS (@ARISEtv) October 6, 2026

Kingsmeal:
The campaign spokesman said the candidate incidentally shared an address with notorious cocaine dealers in the 1990s.

Festus Keyamo, chief spokesman for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has said Bola Tinubu, the party’s flag bearer, only shared a “block of flats” with notorious cocaine dealers in Chicago, pushing back after the release of court documents that suggested Mr Tinubu’s ties to illicit drug business and money laundering in the United States.

“What happened was that Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people…(sic). I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he happened to be in that block of flats too.

“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account,” Mr Keyamo said on Wednesday on Channels Television programme to exonerate the former Lagos governor from the fresh controversies that had been trailing his involvement in drug peddling.

Peoples Gazette on Tuesday published certified copies of the 1993 case as recently released by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The documents confirmed that the U.S. government had in July 1993 sought forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics Mr Tinubu was accused of laundering. The matter was resolved in a compromise between the Tinubus and the U.S. authorities, with the Tinubus being asked to keep the money in the Heritage Bank account while the $460,000 in the Citibank account was forfeited.

A federal judge subsequently dismissed the matter with prejudice on September 21, 1993, which effectively foreclosed the matter from being litigated again by all parties. It, however, remained unclear whether or not Nigerian authorities could still bring charges against Mr Tinubu over the same case in Nigerian courts.

The former Lagos governor has come under intense public scrutiny over his opaque past, health status and allegations of corruption. He has not personally commented on the latest case, but his campaign surrogates have emphasised that the matter was insignificant and would not be a factor in the upcoming elections.

https://gazettengr.com/tinubu-mistakenly-shared-flats-with-drug-lords-in-chicago-festus-keyamo%ef%bf%bc-2/

You’re a very w!cked and a terrible person if you’re supporting this man for re-election. pic.twitter.com/jgXSKMoSVt

— Prince Ironsi 🇳🇬 🇦🇪(youngest father) (@prince_ironsi) October 16, 2026

Maxymilliano:
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has explained why he delegated some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him.
According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”.

Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled: ‘Nigeria’s 2023 elections: In conversation with Bola Ahmed Tinubu’, monitored by The Nation.

At the lecture, Tinubu after his opening remarks, assigned Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak on how his (Tinubu-led) government would address insecurity and asked the Director of Strategic Communication of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Aleke, to respond to the question on oil theft.

https://thenationonlineng.net/why-i-delegated-el-rufai-ayade-others-to-answer-questions-at-chatham-house-tinubu/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1670262252

ogododo:
YOU WILL PAY TAXES BEYOND YOUR CAPACITY IN 2027, BETTER BE READY!

Companies are going to transfer the burden of 25% tax to you. BE READY! The result of the 2027 election will decide your faith as a Nigerian.

YOU WILL PAY TAXES BEYOND YOUR CAPACITY IN 2027, BETTER BE READY!

Companies are going to transfer the burden of 25% tax to you. BE READY! The result of the 2027 election will decide your faith as a Nigerian. pic.twitter.com/BvQS2G2GWb

— NG/Lagos Reports (@TrafficChiefNG) October 19, 2026

Moment Bola Tinubu was asked to test the microphone and he licked it instead 😩 pic.twitter.com/qgAi3fcHmC

— GistReel.Com (@GistReel) January 3, 2023

Thescrutinyng:
The former president spoke during a keynote interview at the ongoing Fi­nancial Times Africa Summit 2026 in London, United Kingdom, where he criticised the administration’s handling of the economy, particu­larly the devaluation of the naira and the removal of petrol subsidy.

Reacting to the sharp depreciation of the naira, Obasanjo said the policy had significantly reduced the pur­chasing power of Nigerians and contributed to the coun­try’s position as the poverty capital of the world.

“We do not live in isola­tion as a country. We interact with the rest of the world. And overnight, you devalue the currency by 300 percent. The naira went from N500 to a dollar to N1,500 to a dollar. What that meant was that every Nigerian is made poor by 300 percent. That made Ni­geria to become the poverty capital of the world, which means Nigeria has the largest number of poor people in the world. You cannot say to me that that is good for Nigeria. You cannot say to me that that is good for us in any sense,” he said.

On the removal of petrol subsidy, Obasanjo argued that corruption accounted for a substantial part of the cost of maintaining the sub­sidy regime, insisting that tackling corruption could re­duce the amount of subsidy required.

“Petrol and petroleum products affect everybody and everything. Now, what we call subsidy for petroleum products in Nigeria, a lot of it is corruption. And I believe that if we pay attention to cor­ruption and deal with corrup­tion, then what will remain of subsidy will be very little. If we take care of corruption in the system, I believe that the subsidy that we will need will be much more less,” he said.

When asked whether Tinu­bu deserved a second term to see his policies through and consolidate on their gains, the former president chal­lenged the premise of the question.

“What policies are you seeing through? You impov­erish your people and you want to see impoverishment through? What are you seeing through?” Obasanjo asked.

Obasanjo also compared Nigeria’s economic perfor­mance with that of Ghana, citing the movement of the Ghanaian cedi against the United States dollar as an ex­ample of a different economic trajectory.

“Now compare the situa­tion in Nigeria with Ghana. I understand that the present president of Ghana… took over when cedi was 16 cedis to a dollar. Within six months, he took it to 10 cedis to the dol­lar. You can see the difference. What do you say to that?” he said.

https://independent.ng/economy-not-improving-under-tinubu-obasanjo/

ProfDumbledor:
Each April and October, the World Poverty Clock data are updated to take into account new household surveys (an additional 97 surveys were made available this April) and new projections on country economic growth from the International Monetary Funds’s World Economic Outlook. These form the basic building blocks for poverty trajectories computed for 188 countries and territories, developed and developing, across the world.

The data highlight two new storylines about what is happening to global extreme poverty.

First: Extreme poverty in today’s world is largely about Africa

According to our projections, Nigeria has already overtaken India as the country with the largest number of extreme poor in early 2018, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo could soon take over the number 2 spot (Figure 1 below). At the end of May 2018, our trajectories suggest that Nigeria had about 87 million people in extreme poverty, compared with India’s 73 million. What is more, extreme poverty in Nigeria is growing by six people every minute, while poverty in India continues to fall. In fact, by the end of 2018 in Africa as a whole, there will probably be about 3.2 million more people living in extreme poverty than there are today.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/06/19/the-start-of-a-new-poverty-narrative/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=global

Bobloco:
‘Nigerians tell me to slow down, freezers are freezing’ — Power Minister

The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, on Wednesday said some Nigerians had asked him to “slow down” the improvement in electricity supply because, according to him, their freezers were now working continuously.

Tegbe made the statement in Abuja while speaking at the commissioning of the 3-megawatt solar hybrid power project at Yakubu Gowon University, formerly the University of Abuja.

The minister said he had been receiving feedback from electricity consumers following improvements in power supply in some parts of the country.

“Places that didn’t have light at all for three months are now having 18 hours light. Some areas called me to say, look, I should slow down, that everything in their freezer is freezing.

“That is what freezer is meant to do. Let it freeze the food that needs to be frozen,” Tegbe said.

Tegbe said he had promised during his Senate screening that Nigerians would begin to see noticeable improvements in electricity supply within three to six months.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/electricity-nigerians-tell-me-to-slow-down-freezers-are-freezing-power-minister/amp/

TINUBU’s EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Festus Keyamo, a senior advocate of Nigeria, said Tinubu primary and secondary school was done at home and he passed it.

APC Tinubu must Go. pic.twitter.com/GPtw56NAGG

— Prince Ironsi 🇳🇬 🇦🇪(youngest father) (@prince_ironsi) October 12, 2026