Hehehe! Future impossible tense. Imagine what they overhyper Buhari to achieve which remained the lies and propaganda that they are. Now, the same is being projected for the failed economic wonder dog of Lagos that have ended up destroying Nigeria's economy.
Insecurity celebrating security. It was an indictment on the government. This is not worth celebrating because the number one role or function of government is the provision of security of lives and property. If you failed in it, then you failed all.
Tenses: You can keep echoing your supreme court nonsense. A time will come when that judgement will be revisited and all the judges that collected corn will answer for their crime and tinubu will be ripped of his GCFR title. .
That guy is sickening trying to defend this obvious judicial flaw like the way Festus Keyamo defended Tinubu in this narcotic case. Can he forfeit $460, 000 dollar without clearing his name if he didn't commit a fraud?
But the govt... chooses the loudest mouth. A man whose public identity is built on slander. And that is the real indictment here; because an ambassador is not just a position.
An ambassador is a country's image abroad. An if Reno Omokri represents Nigeria, then the country is presenting itself as a state that elevates controversy over credibility.
100% correct! The nomination, screening and appointment of a double-faced figure like Reno Omokri into a sensitive post like ambassador is a clearly an indictment on this rudderless govt. The haste to take Sowore to court, has ended up in putting the Tinubu govt in court.This is very shameful indictment on the government itself.
When it is said that the presidential election should be as much about character as well as as manifesto. This is what is meant. The presidency is too serious an office to be invested in someone with serious integrity deficit.
Those ignoring character and integrity should remember the Turkish proverb: “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.”
Beyond politics, there are decisions that badly affect national dignity. When public statements made freely later surface as legal evidence and the same system elevates the speaker into diplomacy, it raises serious questions about the screening, credibility and national/state image.
When people say words have consequences, that assumes a just system. A system where actions are weighed fairly and accountability is consistent, when spoken words comes back to hunt and hurts badly.
But in a country where injustice is selective, some words often escape consequences entirely or so. It seems when institutions fail, something else steps in. Call it records, but I call it the universe doing its own audit. And that is exactly the moment you are witnessing today. In the case involving Omoyele Sowore, the Directorate of the State Security Service(DSS) and the unexpected prescience of ambassadorial designate - Reno Omokri in the middle of it.
In a system where power often outran justice, words do not disappear. They wait! They wait for the moment when those who once made them are forced to explain them. This is not justice by design. It is consequences by inevitability. And that is why this moment matters. Reno Omokri appointment was never a reward. It was a spite move. A message aimed at the opposition figures and the movement challenging the current government saying; "look at who we elevated" as a provocation.
However, that decision was made through a very narrow lens. A lens focused on short time optics and not long time consequences. They thought about silencing critics and not about protecting the state. What they failed to consider was the collective damage, because when you elevates a man whose words publicly accused the government's head of criminality, you do not weaken the opposition. Instead, you ended up strengthening their evidence and resolve.
You do not bury the past, instead you only archive it at the highest level. A move intended to spite opponents has backfired, not against the opponents; rather against the the very gov't it was meant to defend. And that is how power injuries itself. Not through enemies, but through decisions made without foresight.
Sowore has taken Reno Omokri to a place he never imagined - he will now stand as a witness against his own gov't. And that irony is brutal. Reno Omokri is not being dragged for policy, he is being dragged by spoken words. What he once said boldly, repeatedly and confidently about and against the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What he said he has proof, words he said he had evidence and convictions about.
He accepted he said the president was a known d... baron. For the sake of social media policy, I will use that word. Suddenly something interesting happened. Reno Omokri changed his mind. Now, let this sink in. A man who said he has evidence, but was never asked to present it. But suddenly found .......without examination.
If that does not sound ridiculous to you, then you have completely lost your sense of logic. Conviction does not dissolves because power has shifted. Yet the APC government looked at all this and said; "Yes! This is our man" despite the controversy, public records and national embarrassment. They screened, cleared and appointed him. In doing that, they spat on themselves.
This is because here is the uncomfortable truth; any country that sends Reno Omokri out as an ambassador is reopening a wound it claims has healed. Anywhere he is posted to, the first thing that would follow is internet search and the Internet would remind that world that the man Reno Omokri accused his own president of being a criminal with alleged proof.
You can not rebrand that. You can not diplomatically smile that away. And so people will say politicians do not care about their reputations. This is not true. Politicians care deeply about reputation as much as they care about power. If not, there would be no spin doctors. What made this decision even baffling is because Nigeria has hundreds, if not thousands of people who are serving this gov't quietly, professionally and without moral baggage
But the government does not choose them. It chooses the loudest mouth. A man whose public identity is built on slander. And that is the real indictment here; because an ambassador is not just a position. An ambassador is a country's image abroad. An if Reno Omokri represents Nigeria, then the country is presenting itself as a state that elevates controversy over credibility.
This is not just about Reno Omokri. It is about a system that sabotages itself. A system that claims it wants stability and credibility, but openly rewards recklessness. Despite where you stand against this government, let this be said clearly; there is no Nigerian that has embarrassed this gov't like Reno Omokri.
This remains a national embarrassment because a government that can not protect its own dignity and integrity exposes its weakness. Reno Omokri should not have passed screening, not because of opposition politics but because of national record. Screening for ambassadorial appointment is not a formality. It is supposed to protect the state from exactly this kind of self inflicted damage. Instead the system failed and now it is bleeding from its own decisions.
Reno Omokri did not create the problem, he simply picked it up and held it to the light. It is a truth at a time. Take care and have a nice day.
seunmsg: The case was litigated up to the Supreme Court and you all lost. Both Atiku and Obi lost at the Supreme Court. Bring up something new and stop regurgitating an allegation you can’t prove even if the entire database of FBI, CIA and DOJ is released to you. Hundeyin tried and fail.
You are not wise @all. This drug issue was not even touched @all as the SC simply used technically ruled that the time lag to entertain that issue has passed.
Behold the Judgement Justice HARUANA TSAMANI delivered which affirmed the sham election victory of Tinubu.
1. "Since Tinubu can enter the US, he has committed no offence or crime in the US" - Justice Haruna S Tsamani
2. "If you commit a crime, it will no longer count against you after 10yrs" - Justice Haruna S Tsamani
3. "The $460,000 forfeiture being a proceed of Narcotics is to Tinubu's account and not to his person" - Justice Haruna S Tsamani
4. "The BVAS was only meant for verification and accreditation of voters and not meant to be used to transmit the result to the INEC iREV" - Justice Haruna S Tsamani
5. "Proving an election irregularities in a tribunal is not as easy just like an English man taking his Coffee" - Justice Haruna S Tsamani
6. "Because Kashim Shettima did not intentionally allowed himself to be nominated twice, his double nomination cannot be used against him as a reason for disqualification" - Justice Haruna S Tsamani
"Nigerians deserve clarity about the physical and mental readiness of their president. They deserve leadership that inspires confidence rather than discomfort. Tinubu’s Türkiye visit, intended to project strength and partnership, has exposed vulnerabilities that can no longer be ignored...."
This is a solemn reality that him and his handlers kept on denying. The governance of a nation is not a joke.
"From his infirm gait to his awkward steps, from his visible discombobulation and apparent disorientation to his discomfort throughout the visit, Tinubu looked either unwell or finally overtaken by age.
Watching him struggle physically and appear mentally disoriented in a foreign land, dependent on his host to guide his steps. Tinubu appeared physically tentative, mentally strained and uneasy in a setting that demanded composure and confidence.
Nigeria was represented on a global stage by a president who looked like a fish out of water, out of his depth, socially awkward, visibly unpolished, and unprepared for the symbolic weight of his office....."
Meanwhile; "The presidency moved quickly to downplay the incident, attributing it to an uneven surface or a misstep..."
Today's Saturday Tribune column explores the optics of President Tinubu's fashion disaster, pity-inciting comportment and missteps in Turkiye and the implications of these for governance in Nigeria:
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s state visit to Türkiye this week dramatized two uncomfortable realities: the visible toll of age or ill health on the president and the conspicuous absence of his wife in the intimate sphere of his personal care and public self-presentation.
This was not supposed to be a problematic visit. Tinubu was in Ankara at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a formal state visit aimed at deepening bilateral relations between Nigeria and Türkiye. The agenda included high-level talks on trade, defense cooperation, energy, education, media exchange and security collaboration.
Both governments announced the signing of several memoranda of understanding, and Erdoğan publicly expressed interest in expanding trade volume from about $ billion to $5 billion in the medium term. On paper, it was a routine and potentially productive diplomatic engagement.
But diplomacy is not conducted on paper alone. It is also staged, embodied and performed. What dominated public attention was not the content of the agreements but President Tinubu’s comportment. From his infirm gait to his awkward steps, from his visible discombobulation and apparent disorientation to his discomfort throughout the visit, Tinubu looked either unwell or finally overtaken by age.
Video footage of the visit showed him stumbling during a ceremonial walk alongside Erdoğan, requiring visible assistance to steady himself. The presidency moved quickly to downplay the incident, attributing it to an uneven surface or a misstep.
Yet even sympathetic viewers could not miss the disquieting fact that Tinubu appeared physically tentative, mentally strained and uneasy in a setting that demanded composure and confidence.
In the last few years, he has aged considerably. Although officially in his early 70s, he increasingly looks like a man in his mid-80s. This is not mockery. It is observation. Age shows differently in different people, and for Tinubu, it has become increasingly conspicuous in public appearances.
As I pointed out on Facebook on January 27, old age is a privilege. It is an honor. It is a favor. I will not mock it because I may or may not get there myself. A part of me genuinely felt sorry for the president. Watching him struggle physically and appear mentally disoriented in a foreign land, dependent on his host to guide his steps, evoked pity rather than scorn.
But sympathy is not the only appropriate response. The patriotic side of me felt deeply embarrassed and profoundly concerned. Nigeria was represented on a global stage by a president who looked like a fish out of water, out of his depth, socially awkward, visibly unpolished, and unprepared for the symbolic weight of his office. He looked intimidated by the role he occupies rather than comfortably inhabiting it.
Old age alone does not explain this. There are elderly leaders who exude grace, composure, and cultivated ease. Age does not automatically strip people of social polish or self-assurance. Some old presidents remain urbane, refined, and commanding because refinement is a product of lived social experience, not youth.
This makes Tinubu’s performance all the more puzzling. He campaigned in 2023 as a “city boy,” a label meant to signal cosmopolitanism, urban sophistication, and familiarity with elite global spaces. “City boyness” suggests elegance of manners, ease in formal settings, and an instinctive grasp of protocol and presentation. In Ankara, Tinubu did not exude any of this. He came across instead as a “village boy.”
In my January 27 Facebook post on the visit, I said he looked like a gauche, farouche village headmaster hopelessly out of his depth, clad in a pitifully oversized and ill-fitting coat. That observation, crude as it may sound, was not merely about clothing. It was about bearing, posture and self-awareness.
This is where his wife, Remi Tinubu, enters the picture.Wives are, or ought to be, the closest people to a male president. They are his first critics and his most invested supporters. They see him when cameras are off and advisers are silent.
While many people around a president are motivated by self-interest and would not care if he appears rustic, disheveled, or unserious, a spouse has a personal stake in how her husband is perceived.
My wife, for instance, is my severest fashion critic. On any day I unconsciously choose a garish, color-uncoordinated, self-impressed sartorial riot for work or important occasions, she never lets me leave the house. That is care. It is relational labor rooted in familiarity and concern.
So, where was Remi Tinubu when her husband stepped out in Ankara looking neglected and ill at ease? Was she in Nigeria? If so, why? No one should be more invested in Tinubu’s public self-presentation than his wife, especially at a moment when age has clearly begun to impair his physical confidence.
Tinubu’s Türkiye fashion disaster is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. It is part of a long pattern. Whenever he wears Western attire, he often looks like an unkempt bumpkin. His clothes are routinely oversized, poorly coordinated, or ill-fitting.
This is baffling for a man with immense power, access and resources. With all the money and influence at his disposal, is it impossible to secure custom-fitted suits that complement his frame and age?
I am calling attention to his wife because I see a parallel between Tinubu’s clumsiness and Joe Biden’s latter-day age-induced awkwardness. Biden, too, has struggled publicly with gait, balance and verbal slips as age has taken its toll. But there is a difference. Jill Biden has consistently hovered over her husband with what appears to be hawk-like vigilance.
There is no public evidence that Jill Biden directly curates her husband’s wardrobe or intercepts every sartorial misstep. However, extensive reporting on her role emphasizes her protectiveness and attentiveness as his physical and cognitive vulnerabilities became more pronounced. It is not unreasonable to infer that such vigilance extends to his public presentation, including how he appears before audiences.
If this argument sounds misogynistic or essentialist, then it has been misunderstood. I am not prescribing a universal gender role. I am describing a historically common form of spousal labor that often emerges in long marriages where roles evolve pragmatically rather than ideologically.
Expecting a spouse to help manage appearance is no more oppressive than expecting the other spouse to handle finances, logistics, or health reminders when aptitude or circumstance makes that sensible.
The expectation is relational, contextual and voluntary. It reflects lived realities without sanctifying them as moral imperatives.
But beyond Tinubu’s awkward dressing and public gaucherie, there is a far more troubling issue. The visible decline in his mobility and apparent sentience raises legitimate concerns about his capacity to govern effectively. Leadership requires stamina, alertness and sustained engagement, especially in a country facing severe economic hardship, insecurity and institutional strain.
Compounding these concerns are reports that Tinubu did not immediately return to Nigeria after his Türkiye visit. There has been speculation that he may have detoured to France, feeding a long-running public perception that he resides abroad and visits Nigeria episodically. Nigerians have sarcastically described him as a French resident or even a French ambassador to Nigeria.
While such claims may be exaggerated, they resonate because of a deeper issue. During extended absences, who governs on his behalf? Unlike former President Muhammadu Buhari, who transmitted power formally to his vice president during medical trips abroad during his first term, Tinubu is not known to have done so even once. This lack of transparency fuels anxiety and speculation.
This column is not an invitation to cruelty. It is a call for honesty. Nigerians deserve clarity about the physical and mental readiness of their president. They deserve leadership that inspires confidence rather than discomfort. Tinubu’s Türkiye visit, intended to project strength and partnership, has exposed vulnerabilities that can no longer be ignored.
Age may be inevitable, but how it is managed, supported and presented is a matter of responsibility. And responsibility, in public office, is not optional.
The elegant amazon and beautiful stallion from the South East. "One Love Keep Us Together" is my favourite track of all your discography. Je nke'oma ezigbo adanne.
jmoore: Chai. They have come with their propaganda. After rigging elections, they are now rigging statistics. Nigeria is nowhere close to top ten contributors to GDP.
Nigeria does not even rank well among the top 10 in African let alone globally. Wait first sir. You know where the propaganda is from. Reality is reality
Go tell it to the middle class that have dissappeared from our national life now. Suddenly the "nah statistics we go chop" are running after stats that are just paper details.
A struggling mono-oil dependent economy contributing to global GDP while its citizens are struggling with everyday economic realities. It is not easy being an agbado miscreants.
The fall guys is often the most talked about guy. You failed then face the consequences. Meanwhile why are the zombies missing in action in these threads nowadays? Morbid fear of coup by the northern faction? Let's see what they will tagged this one now.
Great feat there beauty and brain. Many hearty congratulations. 1st class in Economics is not a joke. I remember someone has that records too in UNN back then.
These are the kinds of achievement we should be proud to showcase so that younger girls can be motivated to attain stardom too by diligence, sheer determination and hard work. More heights to attain girl.
A young lady who recently graduated from the University of Lagos (UNILAG) was celebrated online for her achievements. Alexander Linda Nkemdilim, a graduate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), has gone viral on social media after she broke a new record.
She took to social media to announce her graduation, and several individuals immediately stormed the comment section to celebrate with her. The young lady broke a very rare record following her graduation from the popular university with a first-class degree
The individual, @alexanderlinda_, in another post, detailed the course she studied at the University of Lagos and the CGPA with which she graduated, earning her a first-class degree.
She wrote: "Reintroducing: "Alexander Linda Nkemdilim "BSc. (Hons) Economics "4.54/5.00 CGPA "First Class Honors" She shared another post on her X page to celebrate herself as she broke a new record after graduating with a first-class degree.
Speaking about the record, she @alexanderlinda_ said: "We’re not done. I’m the FIRST first-class graduate in my family🥹." Her post on X grabbed attention online, and several individuals stormed the comment section to react to it and congratulate her on her success.
@Hon_Olusola wrote: "Sha make sure you are the FIRST first class graduate in your family to get employment with the certificate. That’s what matters."
@royalty_Khisz stated: "Congratulations on that dear. That’s Great milestone achievement. But u don’t need to involve your family in this cox netizens would drag you out of context."
@EmmanuelIl37176 noted: "Congratulations. I'm glad you did it. I saw you at the colloquium last year."
@Timsedx shared: "Getting cleared and sharp. Congratulations gorgeous."
@Ujay012 stated: "You don't need to tell us you are the first in your family. You being a first class graduate is good don't involve your family."
@obafemi_001 shared: "Congratulations 🎉 Follow back ASAP."
@Abundance_123 said: "Congratulations to you ✅. May the favour market locate you."
@Eyovwerhuv37966 said: "Congratulations 🎉🎉 ❤️I'm studying economics also and I can tell for a fact that's it's not easy at all.... congratulations once again. I'd save this and retweet when it's time for my own convocation."
It was said the strike was in collaboration with intelligence provided by the Tinubu govt to that of the US.
Only for the Tinubu's rudderless govt to later start believing a New York times report of Trump depending on the words of a screwdriver seller in Onitsha.
Just imagine! This is pure lies, propaganda, deceits, unbridled psycophancy and asslicking taken to another sickening levels. Perhaps Tinubu still "dobale" for democracy as he joked about his epic fall @ the 2024 democracy Day parade
It is not a crime a human being can trip, loss balance and fall down. However repeated attempts to pool the wool on obvious reality of Tinubu's ill health on the sane thinking citizens of this nation by the officials of the govt is incredibly insane.
Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Reforms Will Make Nigeria Global Force By 2050 — Minister by Racoon(m): 3:01pm On Feb 01
