₦airaland Forum

TopBanter:
Ogun State needs a visionary, technocratically brilliant and innovative Governor.

A man of ideas who will be capable of thinking outside the box to maximise the huge potential the State has to make it a competitor to Lagos per best States of Nigeria


Yayi is incoming but I am not convinced he is that man. Let's hope he proves me wrong.

It’s been a very long time I’ve heard this statement of Ogun state maximizing its potentials.

Pls what are the potentials?

Remember, Trump no Dey mince words.

Borrow 5bn USD.

Share 4.9bn USD to yourself and other politicians.

0.1bn USD will be changed to naira and 50k each given to women to start frying Akara and selling kuli kuli.

Pay data boys 30k each to defend the stupid gesture by the government.

BATified2023:
Armchair critic

Ask them how they plan to empower a widow with 3 kids to cater for now n they will hang.

How can u empower this people below?

Majority of them are even collecting all these small good on credit

Slowpoke.

Only if you read what was written above will you find out that these people you pictured won’t do these kind of trade if manufacturing companies are supported by the government.

They will be better off with salaries than whatever they earn selling these items.

APC/ACN has always been a dull party. They see sharing sewing machines, grinding machines, refrigerators, motorcycles as empowerment.

Please do. Maybe then they’ll know what’s up.

Execute them.

When there’s a pattern, it’s never coincidence.

All parties can’t suddenly start having internal issues.

These local vigilantes must never be allowed into state police.

In fact, they need to be outlawed. They’re worse than the police in taking laws into their hands.

Dem ask you A, you Dey perambulate. Na why she say make she ask you average Nigerian question.

Saturday wey go good, na from Friday we go know.

I don’t see any reason to be fussy here. I’m not friends or family with the intending couple. I shouldn’t be bothered.

spiSeyi:
The question we should ask ourselves is "is Selling Akara a bad business" is it not better than begging or even sleeping with strange men b4 food can be on the table . I am not a fan of Remi Tinubu, but come to think of it if you package your Akara biz with other sides like Kunu , bread, kponmo or even Akamu you will end up solving hunger problems, and financial issues. It can even be more packaged imagine a modern akara kiosk were they sell hot akara with bread like bugger . But the messenger herself have become so unpopular because of her previous intensiveness so the same Nigerians who will sell all their properties just to go wash dead bodies, watch white man yanch are coming against the message because of politics. A serious mind will look at the message with a rational mind and neglect who soever is the messenger

No one said Akara business is bad.

What most people are condemning is Remi Tinubu saying she gave women 50k to start businesses.

50k cannot do all you listed above.

Man has finally stated his price.

Freedom fighter isonu.

yinkus6750:
They will come and start blaming the first lady now.
There are policies and procedures for doing things.
Imagine preparing akara in an unhygienic environment.
By the road side, and beside an open major drainage.
No show glass to put the akara.
Follow and obey the rules, and nobody will seize your items.

Where do you expect someone the First Lady empowered with 50,000 Naira to set up her Akara frying spot?

Rent a shop?

BATified2023:
are u Yoruba?

Guy go n sit down n stop putting mouth into what u know nothing about, Tinubu was an astute politician who go into the protest through activism against military rule so he struggled to get there

It's like sowore who is struggling n doing activism, if he eventually gets there we all know no politician made him

It's common sense but u people will always want to argue unnecessary once it's tinubu n d annoying part is that u know nothing about the topic

But since it is tinubu u must contest it

Just shhh.

You know nothing about the man you defend with all your might.

Tinubu benefited largely from the good will of the woman who adopted him and her husband. Abibatu Mogaji.

That woman alongside her family name and backing of the elders of Lagos Island gave Tinubu the supports he had when he first became Senator and when he was later voted governor in 1999.

Those men that helped him them, he betrayed almost all of them. He cornered the entire state to himself and family and throw crumbs at those that chose to remain with him.

Where’s Kofoworola Bucknor?
Where’s Funsho Williams? (He stepped down for Tinubu in AD 1999 primaries).

Tinubu was never an activist. He was in bed with military leadership as far back as Babangida’s time.


Go back and revisit history and know your left from right.

BATified2023:
in Yoruba culture, u don't bite the hand that feeds u.

I can bet u don't even know aregbesola before he was made minister in Tinubu cabinet, same man mentored him n he became governor then minister but today same ingrate is calling Tinubu names.

Same fate with osinbajo, where is that one now?

Forgotten never to b remembered again

Why did Tinubu betray those that made him governor of Lagos state in 1999?

Mccullum:
It's not Tinubu withholding Odun local government allocation, it's the court directive. Go and verify that.

So what was used to withhold Lagos LGA funds then?

LOL.

A moment of silence for those that genuinely and naively followed this man when he was screaming Yoruba nation.

This man will go back to Yoruba nation chants after Tinubu leaves office.

Mccullum:
You people thought everyone are illiterate of history, Tinubu administered Lagos State without Federal Government support, no monthly allocation from FG for years, Obasanjo frustrated him, yet he survived it via revenue he generated from Lagos. And you're here attributing his success as Lagos governor to PDP led FG under OBJ and AA.

Tinubu told you he didn’t get monthly allocations for years?

What he didn’t get was LG allocations because he illegally created 37 LCDAs.

Is the same Tinubu not withholding Osun LG funds now?

Na every time una see person for distress him Dey need Nigerians help?

TokoEkambi:
The central PDP government that withheld Lagos State LG funds? Do you guys post under some influence that first takes you to a parallel universe or something?

Isn’t Tinubu withholding OsunLG funds now?

LegendHero:
Obi was a former governor of Anambra, the same state that kept the women in poverty to the extent that they depend on Obi 10k grant for a lifeline for their business.

Now if you agree 50k can empower petty traders but your argument is that it can’t empower petty traders that are just starting afresh. So Remi argument is this, rather than beg and remain idle, take 50 - 70k and start something even if it’s selling Akara.

The same Remi gave scholarships, grants, even did a fundraiser running into billions for a library. Are you saying she should only focus on the educated and leave the less privileged to their fate?

Tinubu was also governor of Lagos state. There are thousands of women in poverty in this same Lagos you all claim he built. Tinubu is president now, he has thrown more Nigerians below poverty line than any government before him.


50k cannot “start” Akara trade as the First Lady advised. To start Akara trade for someone with nothing but 50k is impossible all thanks to Tinubu’s handling of the economy.

Peter Obi gives scholarships and donations as well. He even said at some point before he even went into politics he bought shops at trade fair in Lagos and gave them out to people and those people are still benefiting from that gesture.

LegendHero:
Nope he gave them to complement their business. He asked them how much is their total stock, they mentioned 7k. So he gave them 10k so as to double their capital and he mentioned that they were so happy and it helped their business.

Lastly, Obi is not an ordinary man. He was the former governor of that state and looted the state dry to stash in Pandora offshore.

Was Asiwaju an ordinary man pre 2023? Then why do you guys always attribute everything to him if he was indeed ordinary then?

What was Peter Obi in 2023 when he gifted some market women 10k naira each?

What is Remi Tinubu in 2026 when she said advised women to start roasting corn and frying Akara with 50k she said she empowered them with?

Note the key difference. The women Obi gave 10k each already have existing petty trades which they can inject the money. The women Remi Tinubu advised to start selling Akara and kulikuli were not doing such trade before.

He gave them money not as an office holder but as an ordinary citizen.

He didn’t say he gave them 10k to “start” a business. He gave them as gifts.

tunjijones:
Central PDP government that withheld Lagos state allocations for several years.

Why una no too dey use una head nau.

You guys are still parading this lie 2 decades after?

Lagos state got all its state allocations during Objs era.

What was not released were LGA funds and that is because Tinubu created 37 new LCDAs against the Nigerian constitutionally approved 20 LGAs for Lagos.

And because LGA funds were paid to state governors, OBJ wanted to avoid a situation where Tinubu would share funds meant for 20 LGAs amongst 20 LGAs and 37 LCDAs.

The successes of the FG then is what also drove the success of Lagos state. You can’t separate Lagos from Nigeria.

Mind you the same Tinubu that said Obj didn’t give him funds then is also doing the same to Osun state now by withholding the LGA funds.

Are you insinuating that the 20 pounds rumored to be given to some Igbos after the war is what they used to thrive and expand to what they are today?

In other words, you’re directly or indirectly agreeing with what the Igbos have called themselves, wealth creators.

What a time.

AMINDA:
The truth is that an Atiku presidency will assemble the best minds to administer this country. Under the Obasanjo presidency, he and Obasanjo had a young and formidable team comprising of Charles Chukwuma Soludo, Nasir El-Rufai, Oby Ezekwesili and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the engine room of their presidency. Even Nuhu Ribadu was later scouted and brought in to run the newly created EFCC. Many of us thought a Tinubu presidency will replicate that given the team he put together in Lagos but it ended up being an all-Lagos affair with politics and cronyism taking the place of competence and capacity.

The successes Tinubu had as Lagos state governor can be attributed to the brilliant economic leadership of the central PDP government then.

BioData45:
Abokis most especially don't rent house. They're the occupants of these places, apart from the market women.

I wonder the kind of brain processor those people have.

You think they’re using those places for free?

Tell the governor to go after those who collect rents on those places from the abokis.

Just as he ordered the demolition of shanties under apongbon bridge but the shanties never went away.

Oga tackle the root cause. Go after those people who call themselves alayes and omo oniles that let out those places to people while collecting money from them.

Until then, you’re only running around in circles.

I’ve never seen a set of people glorify poverty as much as APC, and its supporters.

Just see what someone wrote and is defending.

LOL

Remi Tinubu gave women 50k each to start Akara business.