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nairalanda1:


Never ever trust a Nigerian politican or personality, or secessionist.

Now that our son is in power....

(If Obi won, Ekpa and Kanu would be singing a different tune).

At the end, secessionist movements in Nigeria are there to extract kudi from the center. Nothing more, or less.

Modified...Nigerians are not serious at all. Dem go say 'We are leading a secessionist movement' today, then when it is election time...'It is time to vote or support our son'.

The way ObiDient follow follow people will come out for you ehn.

meum:
PMB’s team blamed GEJ

BAT’s team blames PMB

I hope when someone else blames BAT una go accept cos na wetin person sow E go reap.

How did Buhari make Jonathan president in the manner that Tinubu made Buhari president in 2015

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Buhari-not-Tinubu-responsible-for-rot-in-Nigeria-says-igboho

Yenyen balablu town hall wailing of mentally unstable people.

Why did Tinubu change Buhari from 2011 expired into messiah in 2015? Why did he campaign for his reelection in 2019 despite being responsible for the rot?

Why did Tinubu campaign to continue Buhari and APC’s achievements if rewarded with his own turn for making Buhari president in 2015?

Mentally stable people want to know.

VinnyBaba:
Mahmud Yakubu and INEC really messed up.

Subverting The Wishes of Nigerians who voted for PETER OBI and forcing this Ebola's gazelle Gagaraga on govt us.

Peter Obi cluelessly helped Tinubu achieve his Emilokan dream of continuing APC’s Ẹnikanlomọ shege in extra levels of extreme poverty, inflation, unemployment, insecurity etc.

If the election was held today with the same division of the capitalist PDP group, Tinubu will win again fair and square!

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

Creamypie:
Elections have consequences.when they thought they were dealing with south and east, na emselves dey do.thank god no protest in south and east. Painter of garri na 2k500 for warri. By 2027, any person still alive, and living, in this country will then be taught this time, by extreme suffering. how to make proper electoral decisions, which are not based on tribe, religion

Is Peter Obi not the champion of tribal and religious politics going by the pattern of his votes and visits to churches

decatalyst:
Dem say shout out, you still dey say you love the girl?

Why so wicked and mean to the dude that brought the geh.

Bro code in the mud

Bro code because he is friends with the girl’s FORMER boyfriend, or because of what



No be you I carry come but na you I go carry go…..

thesicilian:
in a democracy, the best man hardly wins. It's the most generous and popular man that usually wins.

Democracy of agberos and almajiris, because educated people are too POSH to get involved with the politics that determines every aspect of their life through public policies?

Is this what it means to be smart

oluwaseyi0:
You mean with all what's going on in Nigeria people will still vote APC

What do the results of recent bye elections suggest

Seefinish:
Edo people, this man should be your governor.

What ideological and personal differences make him better than the APC and PDP candidates

fergie001:
Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Olumide Osaigbovo Akpata has emerged Governorship Candidate of the Labour Party in Edo State.

Is he also a communist labourer who believes in subsidies for consumption and government ownership of businesses?

Or he is a desperate political hustler like Peter Obi who says things that he doesn’t do

“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

Ahmed0336:
I would be impressed by the outcome of these appointments. We have seen professor performing woefully in this country.

Is Tinubu not supposed to be a Chicago graduate with years of experience in Mobil plus experience as senator and governor of Lagos

Emyogalanya:
Just when i thought they have finished building lagos and are now focused on nigeria

They have made loot a synonym for build.

onuman:
How many foreign states or countries in Africa borrowed from Lagos State?
Must you borrow on behalf of Lagos State to keep unborn generations of Lagos State in debt?

Borrow trillions and the city state that Tinubu alone built remains a glorified ghetto without ordinary water supply in every building.
Are we all supposed to be clowns

Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

smokinloud:
N20 trillion doesn't have value again. Santiago Bernabeu was renovated with N2 trillion naira equivalent

In what part of our country is Santiago Bernabeu please

BreconHills:
Can you see any tribalism in my statement.

How can a Genco with its own private gas supply lack funds? The gas alone is worth more than the initial $5m raised.

Rather, itwas competing claims over the award process. The same franchise was resold to Interstate
Electric and in 2013 the BPE listed the assets as belonging to Enugu Distribution Company. That logjam like the one over Zunguru persisted until this
administration.

In order to honour a worthy achievement by a great man one does not denigrate the efforts of others. As I said listen to the speech that will be read by Barth and learn what actually happened.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/what-is-stalling-the-aba-power-plant/

From your Guardian link is the extract below.

Soon after the creation of the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) in 2011, then President Jonathan expressed strong commitment to a new dawn in the electricity sector when he said, “As President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I and my Vice President, Arc. Namadi Sambo, are conscious that what we do with the Nigerian electricity supply industry will go a long way in determining whether Nigeria remains in darkness or joins the rest of the world in the race for development.

Our commitment is to bring an end to our nation’s stunted growth and usher in the fresh air of prosperity by pursuing a new era of sector-wide reform which is driven by improved service delivery to every class of customers in the Nigerian electricity sector.”

There is no doubt that Jonathan’s government took steps to realise this goal. It was the president’s commitment that led to the unbundling of the omnibus PHCN since November 1, 2013 when private companies took over across the country. This is what many of us have been advocating but which has not turned out to meet the expectations.

It was under that same reform programme that Geometric Power Limited (GPL) was licensed to help bridge the electricity gap.

The company reportedly invested a whopping $500 million (about N81 billion), to build the state-of-the-art power plant designed to supply uninterrupted power to Aba and environs.

This huge investment is now laying waste, while the responsible government agencies dilly-dally.

There have been reports that high-wire politicking between the National Council on Privatization (NCP) and the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is stalling the power plant.

MasterTeeUSA:
Most Nigerians don't know shit...even GEJ tried to stop this project.

How did he try to stop it?
Links from credible sources

BreconHills:
And he got the licence from which administration?

Do you know how many years this project was tied up in red tape? Listen to Barth Nnajis speech on the opening and learn - there is no tribalism at the top of the tree.

He got the license from capitalist PDP Obasanjo and Atiku’s deregulation and private sector loving administration.

It will be recalled that on May 11, 2004, the Federal Government, the now-defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) and Geometric Power Limited (GPL) entered into and executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which GPL was granted the exclusive right to construct a 3 x 35 MW open cycle gas turbine power plant and designated sub-stations in Aba, Abia State, which would generate electric power for distribution by Aba Power Limited (APL) to residential and commercial customers and to industrial clusters in a ring-fenced island in Aba.

The government, NEPA and APL executed a lease agreement on April 28, 2005, for the distribution of power to the ring-fenced residential and commercial consumers in Aba. By the terms of the agreement, NEPA assigned its right to distribute electric power in the ring-fenced area of Owerri-nta, Osisisoma, Ogbor Hill, Factory road and Port Harcourt road in Aba and also leased its distribution facilities within the contract area to Aba Power Limited.

A supplementary agreement was made on August 31, 2006, between the Federal Government, represented by the minister of power and steel, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Enugu Distribution Company (EDC) and Geometric/Aba Power Limited. EDC and TCN were substituted for NEPA as parties to the lease agreement of 2005 and assumed their respective obligations.

https://businessday.ng/energy/article/bpe-to-handover-aba-ring-fenced-area-to-geometric-power-by-12pm/?amp=1

Biodun556:
“We should realise that the naira is tumbling because we have not been producing for years.”

Very true, which makes it surprising that Utomi helped Tinubu’s victory by dragging Peter Obi into communist LP labourers camp.

“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

mobileboy:
This are the mumu we have in government

Mumu Ndume

Crude oil earning has always been in dollar why make it look like it's starting today

The crazy rise in dollar rate started with cluelessly incompetent Tinubu.

Do you know who the mumu is now

Firstorderwizard:
Let me assume Sen. Ndume was misquoted because I don't believe this is coming from a Nigerian Senator

Even a Primary school drop out knows better for a country whose import is far more than the export

This is not about balance of trade.
It is about government revenues that are earned mostly in dollars.

BigBlackPreek:
It's really messy here and I don't want to create a scene..someone advised me I should involve the Civil defence authority.
I really dunno what to do
Please advise me

Why are you the one to ask for Civil Defence and not your husband

By the way, your moniker says you are a male.

emkz:
These are just temporary measures and are bound to fail. The forex market in Nigeria is like a hydra-headed snake. Cut one head; as you face another head, the first head will grow back. Cut the damn neck! In other words, let the CBN address the root of the problem instead of pretending they don't know.

Since last week, dollars injected into the forex market are mopped up.

Who exactly are those mopping up the forex?

What economic activity is tied to the raid of the forex?

Ribadu claims the activities of speculators are responsible for the hike in dollar rates.

My question to Ribadu is: why are the speculators not afraid of the government?

For many years, bank MDs have been accused of buying forex from CBN and the forex goes into the black market through back channels, for example, there are vulturistic abokis sitting in banking halls trying to buy off dollars from customers.

Who regulates those abokis?

If the $10billion the vice president said would come into the system enters, it would be evacuated by the same speculators which would not solve the problem.

My observation is that CBN has lost complete control of the forex market and are being regulated by the BDCs and population instead of CBN being in control. All over the world, forex trading is heavily regulated by governments through central banks.

What I also observed is that the dollars are mopped up by those who don't need them but are keeping them for a profit. Therefore, let CBN take complete control of the forex market through the following measures:

(1) Deregister all unlicensed BDCs. That market is heavily unregulated and until they are faced squarely by the authorities, the practice of the naira dying will not stop.

(2) Stop selling dollars to commercial banks as it is clear that they have failed in meeting their obligations to customers with the dollars. People who approach the banks for PTA/BTA and school fees are directed to the BDCs. Why do BDCs have dollars and banks don't? Even with banks, some people still approach the CBN to transfer their school fees. Infact, it was found that the banks had $5billion in their vaults. How come no one has been punished when these same banks created artificial scarcity to push people to BDCs?

(3) All banks should be compelled to show a statement of how they used the dollars they received from the CBN from the last two years. At least it would give us some ideas of what disappeared through the black market.

(4) CBN needs to carry out a tsunami on the banking industry. Use some bank MDs known for the forex fraud as examples by dismissing them for breaking the law.

(5) Once all these measures are taken, the CBN must protect all forex coming into the country to ensure the problems we currently have are not iterated.

In summary, CBN needs to take drastic measures to regulate the market.

There are other measures that can be taken to get the dollars from those who have stored them. Whether the CBN would have the will is something else. The Nigerian forex market is like those who pirate music.

Kill the black market for forex.

Why bring your hard earned dollars into a country where you can’t freely sell it?

How did our economy fare when military dictator Buhari clamped down on dollars and sent Fela to jail for possessing dollars

Sirmwill:
None of all the presidential candidate is competent IMO

Just bunch of power hungry useless people

So what works did you do to get a presidential candidate who is not power hungry and useless as a viable alternative? Maybe you yourself are power hungry and useless to do any work in this regard?

Moreover did you work for senatorial, representative, governorship, state legislator plus LGA councillors and chairmen who are not power hungry and useless like you

NairaOcean:
The young men who insisted that she must go back home and change her revealing outfit, poured water on her and taunted her around the park. The lady however pushed back and asked why they were “embarrassing” her.

As people flocked to the scene, the lady conceded and boarded a bike to leave.

Location

nairalanda1:
Many of those west african countries pay more for electricity than we do, because they pay cost reflective tarrifs for power, something our government denies our discos from charging.

Healthcare and education is realitvely free in many government schools here (which is why they are a mess, but that is another discussion). Same as many other african countries. (If one is on NHIS/PHIS, you even get cheap care relatively).

In considering the cost of electricity among the countries, should you not include the total cost of getting the same amount of electricity available across the countries, which means including the cost of fuel and depreciation on the generators in Nigerian households, factories, farms and other businesses including religious organisations?

How widely available are the free government schools and primary health clinics among the countries

Ameboperoo:
I will also love to see the comparism for the countries minimum wage, prices of commodities like rice, cement etc

Should we include the availability of electricity, free healthcare and education as well as pipe borne water

AngelGabbyShara:
Oyebanji seeks US partnership on economic growth, cocoa development

….As American, Ekiti top officials meet in Ado-Ekiti

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/qq6jeBAMfKBUrPhe/?mibextid=oFDknk

How will the taxes of cocoa farmers pay for the free education of all children in Pa Ajasin’s state, after the failure of Fayemi, Fayose and other governors since 1999 to achieve this objective

dre11:
https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-fg-threatens-to-open-of-border-for-cement-importation/

Where did Tinubu get all these olodo and olofo ministers?

How will such imports affect the dollar rate that is already almost N2,000?

Are Tinubu’s ministers just korofo like the boss

Larryndelaw:
So you want them to be paid for not working gor 8 months. You people are so terrible

Is Tinubu paid according to the work he does and the impact of the work? Is that the case for all the former presidents, as well as governors, LGA chairmen and the lawmakers at local, state and federal levels?

Nbote:
Lolzzz.. If the government says good morning, there's absolutely nothing good about that evening

Propaganda lies promax is what APC thrives on.

OLAADEGBU:
Unilad

Why is this 2009 news story on nairaland front page

Doc Won't Get Kidney Back From Estranged Wife

Court rejects donor’s claim for return of organ
By Jennifer Millman • Published February 25, 2009 • Updated on July 20, 2009

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/doc-wont-get-kidney-back-from-estranged-wife/1883547/?amp=1