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PDP is useless without the River State money

DMerciful:
Ribadu na scam!

He knows Tilumbu's criminality but was bought with 30 pieces of silver

Corruption is at all levels in Nigeria.

DMerciful:
Definitely a winning ticket.

A new Nigeria is POssible

Under what party?

SmartPolician:
Obi shouldn't stoop low to Soludo's level. They are not in the same category; Obi is not contesting for a guber election.

Soludo is a constant reminder that a man could be a professor without common sense.

PO that has no evidence of success. He has jumped from APGA to PDP and now LP, leaving all political parties in a bad shape. How can we change the APC when the opposition is in disarray?

njokuuche77:
A one-party system might work for China, but Nigeria is a different terrain entirely because we thrive on diversity and the balance of opposing views. Democracy is about options, accountability, and healthy competition. If every dissenting voice joins the ruling party, who will question excesses or check abuse of power?
What’s missing isn't more defectors, it’s stronger institutions and performance based politics.
Nigeria doesn’t need fewer parties, what we need are parties that actually serve the people not just switch sides for survival of stomach infrastructure.
We dey watch una.

This is what happens when the opposition is as bad as the government. Instead of the opposition building political parties that are discipline with ideas and values. They jump from one party to another

kingsways:
If you compare the situation today with that of 2012, there was absolutely no need to protest

The so-called protesters, where are they now. Are they all dead? That’s the question Obi asked, a valid question

There was a great need to protest then and to protest now.

Tinubu organised a rally against GEJ removal of oil subsidies and poor governance. Why can't Peter Obi do the same in 2025? There is enough mileage in the failed government of Tunubu to garner support for a nationwide Obidient protest.

papyjaypaul:
This question is like how people want Soyinka to also protest since he protested in the past. The prof can decide not to protest again. His choice. Your destiny is in your hands, if you like wait for others to do it for you

What does Soyinka have to do with this statement? Tinubu used a protest to remove GEJ in 2012. PO is wasting our time writing a Twitter message.

Nigeria must thank the West. Without colonisation, there will still be nationwide slavery, ritual killing and poverty, which have returned since the West has left.


Nigeria should pay reparations to the West for providing governance, education and health care technology.


The second largest country with slaves in the world was the Sokoto Caliphate in the 1860s. That's why the Hausa people are the majority of beggars today. The South (Lagos, Calabar, Opobo) had to be bombed by the British Navy to stop slavery.

redcliff:
Everybody must not be violent to be effective. Tinubu used rascality to get his goal, most times it does not have to be, the reason Obi os popular today is that he is playing his own politics differently and this is the fresh air young Nigerians are seeing and like and want. Where has violence lead us in this country, what exactly has it done for us? You see that change you are lookimg for has to start a certain way not just in actions but in mindset. The mindset has to chamge so that a politican whp has billions will not keep using greed to acquore more thinking its not enough. Peter has a politocal philosophy he plays by and this is what leads his direction.

PO has too much to lose. He was the chairman of the Abacha task force on congestion, an active banker during the GEJ government, and now a major importer of goods into the country. He is weak

papyjaypaul:
Sowore the career protester is condemning Obi. I think he has forgotten that not every protest is Aluta style that you take to the streets. When Tinubu was in opposition, dem no de miss colloquim. Dem go organize lectures, concerts and everything they had to protest against the government. They used their media power, from print to radio and TV to online.

Sowore, if you continue to hate on Obi instead of talking about what you want to do, you will continue to look small. It's not lost on me that the attention of the youth and Nigerians Obi captured was what Sowore had been fighting for for a long time, hoping that the online army will choose him as their Sahara general. E shock am say them choose Obi but relax, no be only you e shock. All the politicians envy Obi and what he could achieve within that short time, whether you like him or not.

It's a dumb strategy to keep attacking Obi, you will win him more sympathy even from those who never liked him. At 54 years of age, I thought that was something Sowore, just like his mate Omokri at 51 would know.

Tinubu organised a rally against GEJ removal of oil subsidies and poor governance. Why can Peter Obi do the same in 2025? There is enough mileage in the failed government of Tunubu to garner support for a nationwide Obidient protest.

Reacting, Adelabu reportedly “advised against the proposed establishment of four power plants with a capacity to generate 1,200MW each, by the commission.”

Bobloco:
It is official: Adelabu is the worst Minister of Power in Nigeria's history.

I agree.

A country that cannot afford to maintain solar generation plant should stay clear of nuclear energy

dalass:
I don't know why we lack the capacity to be able to process or produce steel by ourselves. We can't even mine some solid minerals ourselves

Nothing will change until the civil service is functional and we restructure the country into regions that are manageable In the 1980s, Nigeria had under construction two large steel plants (Delta Steel and Ajaokuta), three rolling mills (Katsina, Oshogbo, and Jos) where are these institution today.

The Chinese have built a small modular steel plant that cannot meet the needs of a small state.

Crosby24:
My brother i assure you WRPC is very viable and visible but the powers that be will not allow it work I'm telling you truth not hear say, the power generation is 60MW almost new machine because of recent overhaul and max consumption is around 20MW.So power generation alone is underutilized and WRPC has maximum 80MW generation capacity,do you know how much you make just 1MW Hrs? that's just power generation alone

I thought it was a refinery

adenigga:
25am
President Bola Tinubu has ordered a ban on importation of foreign goods, especially those that can be produced locally in Nigeria.
Source: https://dailypost.ng/2025/05/05/tinubu-bans-importation-of-foreign-gods-unveils-new-industrialisation-policy/

What can be produced in Nigeria? The only thing we make are babies

Rossikk:
Good one.

Vision is needed.

Nigeria is not like Ghana with 25 million people, whose power issue can be solved with 1 or 2 power plants.

By 2045 Nigeria, currently at 250 million people, will be over 400 million in population, so we need a comprehensive plan to power the entire nation.

They can't fix refineries with $2.9 billion, yet you think they can fix the power issues with $122 for a GDP of $188 billion

KillVDMnow:
Bold part,as far as law is concern, you are wrong.

He is right, because she can't prove it, doesn't mean a crime has not been committed

zero8zero:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/food-security-fg-firm-release-first-zinc-rice-varieties-to-tackle-deficiency/

GMO

Yorubaskullmine:
Are you not guilty of the same thing you accuse others of 😂

He is highlighting ethnic bigotry. Respect people space and provide reasonable contribution.


Emeka Anyaoku is a brilliant man, his fight for regional restructuring is based on the understanding that Nigeria's centralised government can never work.

ejieddy:
80 billion in one account. My God have mercy. That's 1 billion for 80 people, 100 million for 800 people. If you give 100 million to 800 people to set up factories in Nigeria and employ 50 people at least, you have created 40,000 jobs. If you even make it 10 million to 8000 SME's, to employ just 7 to 10 people, you have created almost 80,000 jobs, boosted production, increase our GDP, and reduced unemployment.

Why did God punish us with these kind of leaders? Our forefathers must have sacrificed a virgin that swore for Nigeria. Maybe on the independence day in 1960, there was an unholy sacrifice and the person swore that Nigeria will always have terrible leaders. Pls God help us and forgive our sins

Did any ethnic group create Nigeria? Nigeria can never work. Restructure Nigeria, and let's live apart and work together.

GOFRONT:
Hmmm

If 80b could be found in an account of an ordinary MD of Oil company, How MUCH can we predict to be possibly found in the Akant of a whole GCEO Mele kyari?

And to think these team of barawos have their own private Refineries built in MALTA!!!

Mele Kyari destroyed NNPC. Under his leadership, Nigeria's oil export fell below 1 million barrels a day, and Nigeria started spending over $23 billion on fuel imports annually.

NNPCL is not a viable project and should be shut down. The government should sell some assets to clear NNPC debt.

Zocalite:
You are just a tribal bigot

The present southerner that's ruling what's his achievements to a southerner

Emancipate yourself from tribal syndrome poured into your mouth by politicians

Northern greed has made Tinubu relevant.


Northern Nigerians contribute nothing to Nigeria, yet they want political power.

ALTERNATEID:
In terms of real output, our economic performance has not dropped since 2023. In fact, more businesses are making huge money and recording crazy profits.

In Naira terms, our GDP has grown astronomically. Funny enough, when it comes to discussing national debt, hypocritical folks like this guy would argue that we should discuss in Naira terms since Naira is our reporting currency and not the USD but when it comes to discussing GDP, they switch quickly to the USD and ignore the Naira.

Every sensible person knows that the fall in our USD GDP is basically an exchange rate valuation issue and has nothing to do with a drop in the real economic performance. If Tinubu decides to peg the exchange rate at $1/N450 today like Jonathan and Buhari did, our USD GDP will rise immediately to over $600billion. But then, will that add anything to the real performance?


Only a person with a brain full of cow dungs would see the figures of our net foreign reserve and national indebtedness as at 2023 and still argue that we should have continue to borrow to subsidize both PMS and our currency. The era of that pure foolishness is over.


Despite Argentina’s GDP, why are they still borrowing to subsidize their currency? At a time Nigeria’s net foreign reserve has jumped up to over $23 billion, Argentina with big paper value USD GDP is still running to IMF to get bailout loan of $20billion to subsidize their currency. As at today, Argentina is the most indebted country to IMF. Is that the ruinous path you all want our dear country to continue on? You want us to be using N99 out of every N100 revenue that we earn for debt servicing? Don’t you guys pity the country at all?

Argentina has a diverse economy and exports a total of $150 billion in goods and services. Nigeria's exports have been reduced to $10 billion due to the moratorium on our main export, crude oil.

Even the PDP's Nigeria GDP is fake, as it was based on oil exports and the control of the Naira. The country has failed to improve the electricity capacity beyond 6000MW

Argentina's total installed electricity generation capacity is 40,619 MW. This includes fossil fuels (24,549 MW), hydro (10,812 MW), renewables (wind and solar: 2,903 MW), and nuclear (1,755 MW). Renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar, are growing, with a total renewable energy capacity of nearly 16 gigawatts in 2024

Indians are just racist people. I don't know why we tolerate these people in Nigeria. They are responsible for destroying Nigeria's steel industry.

saintopus:
Is it the North that is behind Tinubu or another North?

Make I hear word

62% of Northerners voted for Tinubu; Northern governors supported Tinubu in 2023. 90% of Northerners supported Buhari. The North is useless at selecting leaders. That's why 80% of poverty is in the North.


The North's most significant problem is that they are unaware of its role in the issues in Nigeria. They don't have the numbers, the NC is not part of the for North (The 10 Northern states), If owning large track of land is an indication of wealth the Russia would be the richest country in the world.

“It is clear that Northern Nigeria is today bedevilled by numerous existential problems, some of which I have tried to highlight above. What is not in doubt is the fact that the North has in abundance what it takes to compete and prevail in any fair competition within the federation of Nigeria and even within the larger African continent.

“The North has 19 out of the 36 states. We also have the FCT as a varitable component. We have a majority in the Senate, the House of Representatives, the National Economic Council as well as the Council of States.

“The North occupies close to 75% of Nigeria’s land area and about 60% of the population. An area that is this big and this strong can never be subdued by any opponent provided we remain united and place our region above all other considerations. No questions about it, united we stand, divided we fall.

“The view has been expressed and it bears repeating here, that current preoccupation with the 2027 national elections is premature and a disservice to the principle of the 4-year-term-limit given to elected officials.

LeeSmart:
It's time we come together to defeat these monsters

All these so-called terrorists are sponsored by politicians

allen113:
Maybe the pay is not attractive.

The working conditions are also deplorable, with a lack of equipment, electricity issues, and a high cost of living.

Chucks13:
No need to be under fire just tell efcc to go for Mele Kyari that is all.

He will join APC and all will be forgiven

happney65:
Did we not tell you it cant work? Sell off this damm thing una no dey hear.

Shuke

Who will buy that piece of junk? Mele Kyari has been retired with the billion that he stole for himself and his patron. $4 billion was borrowed to rebuild those four refineries (Warri, PH, and Kaduna).

$4 billion would have built a 300k Refinery that works. OBJ said that the refineries should be scrapped and new built instead Nigerians were listening to that fool buhari who wasted 8 years of Nigeria time employing Mele Kyari and Nigeria resources.

What will change? Tinubu is not up to then Job

Lamasta:
If the Wale is doing his job the problem will not be worse today

The NOI under OBJ differs from the NOI under GEJ.

NOI under OBJ was brilliant and the best finance minister Nigeria ever had. With the very weak GEJ government, she was unable to implement any of her policies and reforms due to the corrupt and incompetent leadership of GEJ.

Nigeria was living on high-priced crude oil exports and loans. Wale doesn't have that luxury because of the low crude oil exports and forward sales by the Bughari government.

Wale's decision to remove fuel subsidies at a time when Nigeria's export earnings are at their lowest will have a significant impact on the Nigerian people. The decision to float the Naira, in my opinion, is questionable because there should always be some control. However, considering that the government had no funds to protect the Naira or even pay for imported products, I believe he made the right call.

Tinubu government has failed to cut corruption or reduce government expenditure.

Watianoengineer:
Instead of the mumu pastor to be on the next available flight to Lagos, he get mind to organize another crusade after been aquitted. Until the case is revisited and he's finally found guilty, he won't have sense

Impunity,

Nigeria's politicians and criminals often believe they are above the law.

uniquetechng:
you're obviously a kid born in 2000 and was prolly 14 years in 2014, NOI headed OBJ's economic team that had over $12bn debt written off and made sure dollar was stable. Poor were also able to afford basic things of life without much stress compared to what we have today.
Even under GEJ she left our economy as the biggest in Africa with high GDP, Wale destroyed all that in just two years and you have the temerity to rate such level of incompetence.

NOI under OBJ is different from the NOI under GEJ.

NOI under OBJ was brilliant and the best finance minister Nigeria ever had. With the very weak GEJ government, she couldn't accomplished any of her policies and reforms because of the corrupt leadership of GEJ.

Nigeria was living on high-priced crude oil exports and loans. Wale doesn't have that luxury because of the low crude oil exports and forward sales by the Bughari government.

Lamasta:
When President Goodluck was there the complains of Nigerians centered on corruption and insecurity and not hunger that is prevalent now, I don't know where you are getting your own info though

Had GEJ/NOI done their job in 2012, there would be no need for Wale in 2023