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lamentor78:
An idle hand is devil's workshop. Tinubu is the president and he is busy with the affairs of the nation , Obi no get work so he has free time. Tinubu time is program with schedules.


Obi no get any schedule

Indeed. That's how jobless Trump and Macron are. Una propaganda no get part 2

SixSeven:
Otitoju, live up to your name. Your principal should be speaking to the Press. He should be answering questions about his administration. He should be giving us updates. Tell your boss the truth. I have no business with Bwala and I have already written about it here. Even Otitoju cannot stand Arise for instance because on the TVC show, he dominates the conversation and the anchors don't want to offend their boss. They had to create a special show for him and he is always interrupting others. See I give Mehdi Hasan a gold medal. If he has also not been on the hot seat, I would have said this one na all these shouting journalists but Hasan has been on Piers Morgan, he has been on Jubilee show against 20 Conservatives for 1hr 40mins, he has been on various shows where his opponents don't like him and he can defend himself. Can you guys do that? You all want soft landing and always use age to cry victim. This is why I insist that the likes of Rufai have their nuisance value. You guys, if you can stand your own ground even in your enemies camp, na man you be. Anything else means you want soft landing and you are only paper tigers. This is a distraction, I didn't vote for Bwala.

Let us stop deflecting from the elephant in the room. Bwala is not to blame. Tinubu is the one who has questions to answers, not his ministers, not his aides, not his SAs, not his hired journalists. You guys were so ready to bash PDP then, and I think this was what made Jonathan to stop doing the presidential media chat because you were always ready to pick holes but look at you now. Guys, I want to ask you a question, if you are in a relationship with a girl for 8 years and she only speaks to you once or twice in that 8 years, do you know the direction of that relationship? That's how your relationship with APC is, they did this for 8 years. I can count the number of times Buhari talked about national issues and the direction the country and his administration was going. When Arise got to speak to him, they called the interview EXCLUSIVE o For your own President

This was how they sold Buhari's silence to you for 8 years (they were trying to mystify him but you all saw the incompetence and the old man was dealing with his health) and if this continues, they will deify the Presidency for you Nigerians when the number 1 should be answering questions and be kept on his toes. Nigerians deserve to hear updates from their own President, not spokesperson. He should go to the enemies camp. Even Trump is bold enough to answer questions from the press as much as he doesn't like the Democrats or left leaning press. I have more words from Mark Carney, the Canadian leader from interviews, or speeches than I have heard from my own president. If I remember well, the Canadian guy came in after Tinubu so what are we talking about. Putin sef de do interview. Wetin be this. Is Mr Tinubu weak? Are you trying to sell cowardice and making it look like he is a god? What a shame APC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtjpjOPjuUk

APC wants to sell us a dummy.

While Tinubu's single media chat in late 2024 was a comprehensive session involving multiple major Nigerian and international outlets (Arise News, Channels TV, Bloomberg), it remains an infrequent occurrence compared to the daily or weekly media availability common in many other G20 and emerging economy nations. The colloquium organizer has suddenly gone mute. He's too big to talk to you now 🤡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtjpjOPjuUk

Tinubu is not to blame. I don't blame him o. It's the 200 million mumu who know how to hold who's not in office more accountable than those in office. The juju strong

The N90 was like a cameraman holding a phone and camcorder

klismann12:
Why no pictures op. Next time add pictures please

The only thing helping Apple today is the deliberate dumbing of Americans to think they get the best things in the world. Apple will wait for Samsung and Europe to do all the work, then they will learn from their mistakes and launch their own.

[quote author=Gideon16 post=140644651]You for add Pic to this na chief [/quote

I remember that phone that year. Just before the BlackBerry craze. Nokia was very innovative.


https://www.tiktok.com/video/7633856069206428936


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRKJmmooI1k

I think we are still going back to buttons. I loved those buttons.

There was no need to hide my comment by the human bot

Since this topic is about First ladies, let me remind you of something and it should be an election issue. One of the candidates, Mr Atiku has more than one wife. Ask all of them what they will do about the office of the first lady and what they did when they were once in power, if any of them were governors.

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During her husband's presidency (2010–2015), critics frequently accused Dame Patience Jonathan of overstepping her constitutional boundaries by trying to dictate political appointments and warring with state governors, notably Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State.

Maybe our people choose to have selective memory. While addressing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters at a rally in Calabar, she explicitly told the crowd to assault political opponents who campaigned under the slogan of "change". She openly stated, "Anybody that tells you change, stone that person."

In 2012, the Governor of Bayelsa State abruptly appointed her as a Permanent Secretary in the state's civil service. This sparked widespread public outrage, with critics calling it a "national embarrassment" and a textbook example of nepotism, given that she had been away from active civil service for over 13 years.


Buhari's own is recent except people still want to have selective amnesia.

Turai and Stella were silent in their own style but no one can forget the role of Turai when her husband was AWOL. When President Yar'Adua was hospitalized for months in Saudi Arabia between 2009 and 2010, Turai strictly controlled all physical and information access to him. She blocked senior government officials, including the Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan from seeing or speaking to the President.

Why We Seized Turai Yar’adua’s Land - Abuja Minister
https://www.nairaland.com/1278999/why-seized-turais-land-minister#15550811

In 2008, Turai used her position to host a massive high- society fundraiser for her NGO to build an International Cancer Centre in Abuja. Billions of Naira were donated by state governors, wealthy businessmen, and government contractors. Decades later, the project remains a ghost town. The multi-billion-naira facility was abandoned, and hundreds of vehicles and specialized medical equipment bought with public and donated funds were left to rust away. Investigative journalists and government health ministries launched probes into the project, questioning how billions vanished while ordinary Nigerians continued to fly abroad for cancer treatments. In the final days of her husband's administration in 2010, the land was allocated to Turai's NGO, the Women and Youth Empowerment Foundation (WAYEF). Later, the government revoked it, claiming it was public land meant for the African First Ladies Peace Mission. It was subsequently handed over to her successor, Patience Jonathan. Turai sued the sitting government and Patience Jonathan, refusing alternative land offers. In 2013, the court ruled in Turai's favor. The FCT Minister publicly blasted her, accusing her of using her twilight days as First Lady to illegally convert public institutional land for personal NGO use.


The biggest political scandal tied directly to Stella Obasanjo broke in early 2005, regarding the privatization of federal government property in Lagos. An anonymous whistleblower revealed that 207 prime government-owned properties in luxury estates like Ikoyi were being sold quietly at highly reduced, non-market prices to top officials. To the deep embarrassment of President Obasanjo-who had campaigned heavily on an anti-corruption platform-almost the entire Abebe family (Stella's maiden family) was discovered on the list of secret buyers. President Obasanjo was forced to publicly cancel the entire housing deal and summarily fired his Minister of Housing, Mobolaji Osomo, for mishandling the allocations. Newspaper editors who labeled her "Greedy Stella" over the affair were arrested by state security, causing a massive free-speech outcry.

Unlike previous administrations where the wives of the Vice President and state governors enjoyed prominent public platforms, Stella was heavily criticized for attempting to centralize all female political power in Nigeria under herself. In 2003, she summoned the wives of all 36 state governors to Abuja and explicitly declared, "There is only one First Lady in Nigeria." She banned them from using the title "First Lady" within their respective states, ordering them to restrict themselves to "Wife of the Governor." Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and other civil rights activists fiercely criticized her behavior. Soyinka denounced her as "arrogant" and publicly urged President Obasanjo to restrain his wife's unconstitutional excesses, calling the office of the First Lady an ostentatious, vulgar carry-over from military dictatorship.

Tragically, on October 23, 2005, Stella died at the age of 59 due to severe surgical malpractice. Her death itself became a flashpoint for intense public criticism regarding the elite's behavior. The irony of her death was not lost in sight when it was revealed that she had secretly flown to Marbella, Spain, to undergo an elective cosmetic surgery (liposuction) right before her 60th birthday (Her Spanish surgeon was later convicted of negligent homicide after puncturing her internal organs and leaving her unattended for hours).

The Nigerian public reacted with a mixture of grief and anger. Critics noted the tragic irony that while ordinary Nigerians were suffering under a collapsing national healthcare system, the First Lady flew to an expensive European resort town for an elective aesthetic procedure.

Since Abacha died, we have had a first lady die, a president fall ill, another president fall ill, a president's wife (Aisha) complain about state hospital but the country never learns, it's just one person who takes over after the next and nothing changes.

Please continue to post facts that this olodo uprising will refuse to do a simple google search on their phone and be pushing ideas in their head without verification. You don't even need to be alive at that time but simple search will save you. I am not interested in the women because they are spouses to the person we elected. They have no business with us and while Buhari was criticized for saying his wife belonged to the kitchen and other room, maybe he knew what he meant. If that's the way he wanted his wife to be, who knows her better than he does? Because all the Aso Rock trouble we heard after that was enough to understand the statement. Anyway, there is no office of the first lady and we need to stop indulging them. It's corruption and no one will want to touch the President's wife but we must give commendation to Obasanjo for how he handled the Ikoyi houses allocation scandal. When the whistleblower leaked the list of secret buyers, revealing that almost the entire Abebe family (his wife Stella's relatives) had been allocated prime government property at heavily discounted prices, Obasanjo did not attempt a cover-up. Despite the immense pressure it put on his marriage, he immediately canceled the entire luxury housing deal. To prove his anti-corruption drive wasn't just rhetoric, Obasanjo immediately fired his Minister of Housing, Mobolaji Osomo, for allowing the non-transparent, nepotistic allocation process to happen in the first place. He made it clear that nobody-regardless of their connections to the First Lady was above the law.


Again, I want that office removed although it does not exist because we feed it oxygen. I can commend all the first ladies for their NGOs and empowerment schemes but I also consider those things as conduit pipe to siphon state money indirectly. They can be an interference to the Ministry of Women's affairs. IYKYK

Go and verify. This is accountability we need. May I remind us of what NOI did when she was minister.

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala pioneered the initiative to start publishing monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocations in January 2004. During her first tenure as Nigeria's Minister of Finance under the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, she introduced this practice to increase fiscal transparency, manage public expenditure, and combat corruption. By publishing the exact revenue shares distributed to the federal, state, and local governments in newspapers and online, she empowered citizens to hold their local leaders accountable for how public funds were spent.

Today the government is telling you the governors have more money. Okay
https://www.youtube.com/live/YhRsbxQIBg8?si=x3DzXPEZThB7AHzE

Do you remember when Yar'Adua declared his assets?

☝️ I believe we are a people who don't learn from history because the current first lady is claiming donation but you and I know what's going on. This woman once said her family is rich👀 they don't need your money. You should ask them all what business they do. Ask Obi, ask Tinubu, ask Atiku, ask Sowore. These people need to tell you what they do before they can manage your own money.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znygf_3wx3Q

The difference is that once you are an elected public officer, your life is no longer private. Did anyone bother you with Aisha in 2014 or in 2012? Do you still hear about Turai Yar'Adua like before anymore? Do you know why? Because people torchlight their matter when their spouses were in office.

nedekid:
Oga what his wife does with her personal money does not define him, the man is wealthy and so is is family but he chooses a frugal lifestyle and that is his choice. Eg I personally I drive a Honda I bought 14 years ago, old jalopy, my madam a Yoruba woman drives a landcruser. It is my choice of frugality, I will not insist she lives like me, neither will I insist she does not spend her hard earned money.

I will just advise Obi to be careful now that he is a political figure that is of interest. His family has to think properly about what they do because if they don't come for him, they will come for his family. It's not a surprise that Obi's wife is not visible in his campaigns.

Stephen0mozzy:
Isn't it sad that the President and his family that are actively using your commonwealth to buy things for their goonsz una nor dey cry?

But because of your sworn hatred for commonsense, you will ask a person who is offering himself to serve to make sure his own wife is living in poverty like you are under the same Tinubu that you worship in your hungry and penury?

I don't know who did the craze to them. It's good to press the neck of anyone who wants to be our leader in this country so I have no problem with that. It's necessary. What I don't understand is how people can be so fierce to someone who's not yet in charge of their public purse but become mumu to the person who is currently in charge. That's Insanity!

Jokers in Nigeria leave those who are using their taxpayers money alone and chase those who are not in charge of their public funds. These guys are jokers. I was listening to Abati giving us the stats of how many days our President spends abroad, the supposed chief marketer of the country. He doesn't even like to do holidays in his own land 🤡 He is true to himself sha, he promised to continue from where Buhari stopped and we all know how Buhari stopped in London. What a shame.


By the way, Obi once said he doesn't do first lady office. This is an opportunity to confirm from him so you can hold him to account whether he's making noise or it's real.

JuanDeDios:
Them use Obi swear for that Arabambi fellow. Once, while dismissing Obi and Abure, he said Abure was from the Igbo-speaking part of Uromi. Every minute he's awake, he only thinks of how to bring down Obi. I think he should go for deliverance in some church.

It's insane. I saw his interview with Rufai and they asked him what he does for a living? His answer was OBI OBI OBI.

That's obsession.

Is this a threat to Wike?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQlXkBFWL-M



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVY013WOZ04

timizeus:
Where are these pictorial extracts to from? Would love to know. If a link is also available, it would be highly appreciated.

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There are many places you can get to buy Dangote shares.

Osgilliat:
Bamboo were all over sending emails to everyone, reminding them of the IPO. And now that Nigerians has cooked for them they crashed. It shows you how mighty Nigerian population can be. They’ve got no infrastructures that can withstand this much.

They weren't prepared for the prayers sent to their mail.

oneMalik:
Even you Rufai , Someone Fixed you !

And the moment you go Desmond way ... Your GF will show you Desmond way .

There you will feel what Desmond is feeling right now .

You think say na clear eye FUBARA go take beg wike ?

you still be boy !

There is connection, there is favor, yes but there is merit too. You can be connected to a job but must qualify for it. If the person who referred you to the job takes out of your salary, it is no longer a referral, it's your second boss. I don't know where to start with you but I can understand. Someone just called me moralist because I wrote a simple comment that is true. I know where it's coming from. Principles are hard to buy.

I watched his analysis and he was very right. In fact, I heard him saying you people will talk again if I say what is on my mind. I think he was about to say gbewudani again. So he has been proven right after one week. Most of the people representing us are not representing us, they are representing their godfathers. You will never get good governance from them, it's not a curse. They are not their own men, they are weak. How appropriate of me to quote Wike in 2018.


In October 2018, during an interview at the Government House in Port Harcourt, Nyesom Wike explicitly condemned the practice. In his critique of outgoing and former governors attempting to control their states, he stated:
"Godfatherism is becoming a norm, thereby creating a major political crisis, and also hindering the development of Nigeria."

Fekumzi123:
I understand you. I've not seen the movie, but I can tell it's a rear coincidence.
You can be in the same environment with your siblings and not know or feel anything. Some babies are swapped at birth, some are sold out. Baby factory is real. Such cases can meet in life and not feel anything.

I know what you mean and I understand. Maybe I have read, watched, listened to such stories over the years home and away to know that nature knows how to nurture

Fekumzi123:
No be only connect.
Do you know how many children that are siblings but never get to know.
Babies swapped in hospital.
Children sold by mothers that are not ready.
This just a rear coincidence, nothing like thicker blood.

You think so? Look for the movie the three strangers. It's not fiction, it's based on true life.

Teeroyzimma:
Here comes the moral police, give it a rest bruh

Moral police, I had a good laugh.

manuelkel:
You're not far from the truth, I get pissed off when human intelligence is being belittled. Ai is taking away human intelligence and ability of reasoning.

I feel insulted when you use AI to write me a letter or email or a message. I can let it go if it is not personal but for man to man messages, once I see you're using AI, I stop reading because to me, I don't know whether you know what you wrote or you know what your machine wrote.