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wickedclown:
Nigerians will rather believe Sahara reporters owned and controlled by an opposition to the ruling government than the MD of the refinery...
We go dey alright for 9ja last last

Same way MD of Nigeria Airways launched the company with aircraft.

It is you people who believe without asking critical questions and seeing unequivocal proof of truth that should have their heads examined.

Fortune109:
Some enemies of Nigeria keep saying price won't drop...Why are you lots so Evil??

There's no reason for people to be optimistic because fuel price even went up after Dangote refinery started operations.

You're the evil lot here.

Meanwhile Tinubu till 2039

Tajbol4splend:
Get yourself busy, don't let petrol pump price determine your fate, there's much money in getting busy, as a seller, there's a lot of money in today's Nigeria market, if you keep wailing and doing nothing, you will continue to suffer more than before

The people's purchasing power has been massively eroded so you're just not making any sense.

You obviously haven't done any serious business in your life before to say this rubbish.

If you don't know who Dr Chife is, at least Google him.

An ex director at Apple, he's one of the IT pioneers in Nigeria with his company Socket Works laying the foundation for so many IT projects in the public and private sectors.

Many happy returns to a great Igbo son and prolific Nigerian!

LastGiantAlive:
I don't know what you are talking about. I'm a practicing yoruba muslim from Ibadan and will be made an imam by next year inshallah but that doesn't mean I won't say the truth. How do you expect me to believe this usèless propaganda. Is this rubbish data not from the same NBS that just yesterday claimed that our audio gdp grew by over 3% in the third quarter of this year and that unemployment rate reduced significantly even though most companies are leaving the country and relieving employees of their duty?
In Ibadan here alone, due to insane cost of production more than 93% of poultry farms have shut down and sacked workers . The economy is biting hard and won't allow people to remain in business so how exactly is gdp growing and unemployment rate reducing?
The same NBS claims that inflation is around 38% but Turkiye a European country whose economy is currently a thousand times healthier than ours recorded an inflation of over 60% not too long ago but in this country where groceries, electronics and most commodities have gone up by at least 450% in less than 18 months, we're still here deceiving ourselves with 30 percent inflation rate.
I'm unable to trust any manipulated data from NBS for now until the retarded lunatic in aso rock is booted out in 2027. I was part of the yoruba people who were brainwashed to believe that Tinubu would be a better president than Peter Obi and I voted Tinubu based on sentiments and ethnicism but I now regret my actions.
I will vote Mr Peter Obi in 2027 so he would rescue us from this suffering and poverty that this wicked man called Tinubu imposed on us.

Unfortunately it is too late.

I hope you and your family survive 8 years of Tinubu and if you don't, well, not much to be said, you brought it upon yourself.

My suggestion would be that as a form of restitution, you try as much as possible to change the minds of as many Yoruba peeps around you as you can, so that they can eschew ethnic bigotry and tribalism, not just in future elections, but as a way of life in general.

Now this is not to say that other tribes are completely innocent, but we know how ethnic and religious bigotry has taken centre stage in Nigeria since 2015, unfortunately supported and bolstered by people like you who remain unenlightened.

Welcome to the light, if truly you have been liberated.

I wish you the best too.

Purifychy:
Unable to conceive is eating me up.

Hope you have now been able to conceive?

God bless.

In 2023 they paid over 3 trillion Naira, even more that the amount paid in 2022.

In 2024, they're owing 5 trillion Naira already.

Wale Edun came on national TV to say subsidy removal saved Nigeria $20bn.

All smoke and mirrors.

Tinubu believes he can lead with propaganda and lies.

1984 happening before our eyes, Nigeria has now transformed into an Orwellian nightmare where the govt, against all available evidence tells us to believe their propaganda and lies and ignore what we can clearly see happening.

Meanwhile the usually loquacious and vociferous Wole Soyinka has gone mute for months because his good friend and tribesman is in power.

What a country!

The great Abamieda, baba 70, Anikulapo himself did x100 of what you tried to do David, and he also failed.

Nigerians called him a drug addict and never bothered to listen, despite Fela putting his life on the line in a bid to liberate Nigerians.

He later regretted most of his actions after realising that his attempts to liberate Nigerians were futile, the reason being that the average Nigerian is unenlightened, uncivilised, bigoted, selfish, greedy and with a parochial mindset.

Peter Obi will also soon come to the same realisation.

Any attempt to save Nigerians will always end in futility.

Until a critical mass of the populace becomes enlightened, there is really no hope.

Nigerians deserve every bit of the suffering and more.

I don't pity anyone anymore because come 2027 elections, they will still chose religious, ethnic and stomach infrastructure sentiments in voting.

Let everyone carry their cross. I hope the current suffering increases tenfold sef.

Nigerians deserve it 👏

IfyAwazie:
I don laf tire for here

Me too

Threads like this is why I haven't deactivated my account yet.

mariovito:
Issues of terrorism is mostly political and very nuanced.

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter even though I know some may not really know why and what they're fighting for.

While I accept that Islam is a cancer, the Israel Palestine issue is one that's very sensitive that I refuse to take Israels side.

Present day Israel and Israelis are purely Europeans who in the height of the holocaust, ran away from Europe and moved to Palestine under the guise of reclaiming a long forgotten homeland.

None of them have asian minor features but rather are more Europe and white than anything and the West in their usual fashion saw and used it as a willing tool to fight and destabilize the Mideast same way the West funded and used isis for their selfish aims and the various armed Islamic militias formenting trouble in Africa from east Africa to west Africa and our very own boko haram in which the west has been found complicit.

There's more to these issues than meets the eye.

With all these been said, screw Israel, screw the west!

Critical reasoning at its finest.

It's a very sensitive, complex situation that must be viewed from a historical lens.

Every sane, critical mind understands this and refrains from taking sides in the war.

May justice and truth prevail.

tubolancer:
If you are thinking along this line, then you will continue to fail and fall, You have forgotten the adage, no permanent enemy in politics. You people continue to use emotions for your view but politics is not about emotions as played by Southeasterners but it is about interest. You have forgotten that people can be bought for instance Wike, you have forgotten what Wike did during the last election, in 2027 when Tinubu will be going for second term courtesy of Wike with all the influencer and the bad men in APC, PDP, and LP, then you will understand what I am trying to say, you have also forgotten that the large percentage of Nigeria people can be bought, it has happened several times in Nigeria, why is it the APC despite the suffering in Nigeria are still winning. Mind you your emotions can't win election, I swear, politics in Nigeria is complicated and you need to study it, it is so deep.
On the issue of Jonathan, he will fail miserably in this present Nigeria, there are too many powers and interest, why did you think that Tinubu is talking about second term......

Nothing complicated about unscrupulous criminals using violence, thuggery, intimidation, bribery, nepotism and vote buying to win elections.

As a matter of fact, its the lowest level in terms of political sophistry.

You keep talking about no emotions in politics - so you prefer criminals in power than people of integrity who would rather walk away than soil their name with the blood of the innocent in the name of snatching and running away with power?

The most unfortunate part is that most Nigerians think the same way you do, which means the country still has a few centuries of suffering to do before una wake up and smell the coffee.

Hear it now - the average Igbo man is not interested in dirty Nigerin politics of occultism, godfatherism, violence, killing and bribery. If you like call it being emotional na you sabi but if you think the crude emilokan politics of snatching and grabbing power through criminal means is your ideal kind of "unemotional" politics, then you're still a savage.

You people deserve the kind of leaders you are getting so far and by the looks of it, the suffering is still warming up.

anonimi:
If your own tribal blodas are not also looting and stealing, why don't you share your senator and representative's voting record opposing the loan.
Yeye dey smell for hypocrites' nyansh.

Anonimi you're over 40 years old and still behaving like a teenager, doing ethnic dog whistling and casting tribal slurs at everyone who goes against your perceived political position.

What did they say about a fool at 40 again?

Chai

ThunderfireNLMO:
You guys are funny. Anyone attacking your thief, you people assume he is from other tribes, lol. Guy, I be from Ondo State, and again I'm not in Nigeria. You can kiss my a$$. I'm a detrabilised person so STFU. Everyone can not like your thief and your devilish APCheat party.

That's the popular thing in Nigeria actually.

Cast derogatory slurs at Igbos at every opportunity you get as a Nigerian to show loyalty to the demons in power and to get other Nigerians behind you.

It's a crazy tactic that works every time, which is evidence of how deeply divided Nigeria has always been.

Nothing good can come out of such a situation which is why young people like yourself are firmly on the japa train.

Until a larger number of Nigerians relegate ethnic rivalry, nepotism, tribalism and religious bigotry to the background, Nigeria can never move forward.

Omoawoke:
Kobojunkie, think about what this person said.
He has a strong point!

Someone calling her country a zoo, same person that benefited from it. And you aren’t shocked ??

Tell your story to the birds.

Nigeria is way worse than a zoo at the moment, at least a zoo has some level of order, unlike the absolute chaos Nigeria is at the moment.

Not happy about the situation but that's the truth!

Coldspice:
She called Yorubas Ndi ofemma.nu. That's the classic igbo slur for Yorubas.

Her children are Yorubas and her late husband who gave her all she has was Yoruba.

First off, the children are both Yoruba and Igbo, and judging from you Ronus behaviour, they probably detest their father's side of the family already.

Meanwhile Ndi ofemmmanu (which literally means those that cook their soups with oil) = Omo yiibo = Aboki.

Don't come here pretending the 3 major tribes in Nigeria don't call themselves the above, stop trying to be clever by half.

We know your type anyway.

Can you imagine?

This one is sycophancy and asslicking taken 10 notches up

toyosiolamide:
Voting right is relative.What you perceive right may be wrong to others.Learn to respect other people's view or opinions.Have a nice week

Once you say vote right in Nigeria, people automatically assume you mean do not vote a convicted drug bagman who had to forfeit $460,000.00 and flee the US to evade justice for his crimes.

Unfortunately you are correct, the curse of "democracy" in a country where most of the citizens are unenlightened and clannish is that they can decide to vote a clannish bigot into power and the rest of the country can't do much but say "we told you so" when everything starts to fall apart just like the case of Buhari.

While I don't even believe that we practice democracy (because its all about vote buying, rigging, buying judges and using violence to disenfranchise voters in Nigeria), most Nigerians as a matter of fact, usually vote someone for president for 1 of 3 reasons: they're of the same ethnic group, they're of the same religion or to further their perceived political advantages.

It is clear that most Nigerians are myopic, greedy and motivated by bigotry when making such an important decision that seriously affects our lives.

Ultimately, we respect their right to choose based on the above criteria which is why you haven't heard of people being killed or maimed because they voted a particular candidate (although this happened in Lagos and some parts of the North in 2023 and 2015 respectively, where people perceived to be the "others", read as Igbos, were brutally attacked for choosing to vote their preferred candidate).

You open your mouth to tell me about tolerance when APC and its supporters have been the most intolerant set of party members since 1960.

We will maintain decorum as always, however, while respecting the right of other Nigerians to vote who they want, we have a right to be vocal about why their choice is a disaster for everyone.

We pointed out that Buhari is here to destroy Nigeria and Tinubu will finish whatever is left of it - this is unfolding before our very eyes - Nigeria now has more people living in extreme poverty than India and China combined.

People like you think it's a game, and that you can always reverse the effect of who you choose to be president and what they do to the country.

It is far from a game, and some leadership decisions lead mass hopelessness and deaths, meaning they are irreversible.

Again, we cannot resort to being brutish because people made political choices thinking they want to harm us (whether knowingly or not). But, we reserve every right to blame and taunt them about their obviously woeful decision until the fat lady sings. And yes, we also don't care to try to reason with such humans because they are beyond redemption.

Nigeria is now in a race to the bottom, and just like a sinking ship, it is almost no longer salvageable. I hope people continue to vote their preferred candidate (especially known criminals and bigots) and people like you continue to make excuses for them, until the centre completely falls apart.

Might be best for everyone so we can rebuild from scratch.

A long epistle yea, I don't expect you to read it but I've made peace with the fact that Nigerians deserve all of their woes and more.

While I agree that Kemi's utterances have been denigrating, her words about Nigeria ring very true.

Kidnappers and bandits conduct their activities unchecked, while less than 10% of the country has potable pipe-borne water provided by govt.

I personally fall into the category that witnessed incessant armed robberies, had to walk miles to get water in my village back then, and saw lizards running around the dry govt taps.

So, while it's easy to dismiss Kemi as a clown dancing in her political circus, we must be introspective enough to acknowledge the truths in her submissions.

I rest my case.

toyosiolamide:
Madame how do you come online after a stranger you don't know and allege they do something...Where did you get this from,is it from factstypical gaslighting nature...
1.I don't live in Nigeria
2.I had personally asked and know relatives that voted for PO and not the individual mentioned.
So please stop this assertions....people like you may ev3n jeopardize any opportunities your preferred candidate may have in the future.
Have a lovely week.

Jeopardise any opportunities?

You talk as if you're doing anybody favours when you vote right.

Lol.

Mtmike:
Me?? Bigotry??.... well its funny the way people throw words around. if you dont have emotional intelligence you have no business being a leader in any ramification.

If Obi's words which ring true and are very much in order, in my view, makes you feel some type of way because you're a Yoruba person, then it is not out of place to say that you might still have primordial, unreasonable attachment to your ethnic group and identity as a Yoruba.

'Might' is the Operative word here since I don't know you well enough to say so definitively.

Ultimately, until a critical mass of Nigerians eschew ethnic bigotry and chauvinism - on all sides - Nigeria will never move forward.

So even though it might hurt, the truth is the only element that can hasten this enlightenment process cos as it stands, from my experience, less than 20% of Nigerians seem to be able to rise above primordial sentiments and stand on the side of objective truth.

Mtmike:
Even though I no like this Doyin Okupe, what he said here is right, many of us in the south west voted PO against our tribe man, in my whole family only my dad voted BAT. These type of state always make me feel bad especially when I hear it from easterners. The figures are there more than 40percent of SW voted PO but yet the shades comes to us. TRUTH BE TOLD THAT WAS A VERY CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT EXPECIALLY FOR THE FACT THAT IT IS COMING FROM PO HIMSELF. I cannot and will never vote BAT. But PO needs to do better

You're simply being emotional and irrationally sensitive to everything because at your core, maybe you have not overcome bigotry.

PO said the factual truth, so if you like keep looking for his words to manipulate or take out of context.

Black man, so easy to activate tribalism and ethnocentricity in you people. You need to become enlightened and rise above such nonsense.

As the wise know, the truth will always hurt, yes we know a huge number of Yorubas voted for PO, but it should not be anything they should be expecting gratitude for. Also, Tinubu won 4 out of 6 SW states, clear evidence that a huge number of Yorubas also bought into the awa l'okan slogan, now see where Nigeria is today.

The truth must be said no matter whose ox is gored.
If you like vex vote for Sowore or Kingsley Moghalu or Tpain, you're not doing anyone any favours.

Cheers.

Sleekfingers:
.such issues need to be addressed....
During Jonathan, he did it....They all kept quiet..... especially the Southeast

Buhari also did .......some people were mocking the Yorubas

Now it is the turn of Tinubu why are they all now crying?

We all need to sit down. And ask ourselves this question..... Do we really want to continue like this ? Or should everyone go their separate ways ?
Because I am seek and tired of Yoruba this , Igbo this , Hausa this ......

Jonathan did what?

Stop vomiting propaganda that Tinubu Media fed you since 2015 and start thinking for yourself.

You can start here: https://www.nairaland.com/7846374/unmasking-lies-igbos-dominated-ex-president

Donaldoni:
Tinubu can do better

But he's definitely up to something

Everybody must agree that GEJ and Buhari marginalized Yorubas in time past.

GEJ was worse

You have either been fed a lie that you never bothered to actually investigate, or you just don't want to believe the truth no matter what.

Here is GEJ's appointments: https://www.nairaland.com/7846374/unmasking-lies-igbos-dominated-ex-president

SmartyPants:
There is no parallel with the procurement fraud you allude to and what the minister has done here because, as I have pointed out, what the law requires is respect for federal character not political parties.

I understand what you think your point is but you're wrong.

It's called an analogy and I expected it to be beyond your comprehension.

If there is no transparency and integrity in a small "youth empowerment" programme of maybe a couple 100 millions in Naira, you expect integrity, accountability and transparency in bigger programmes running into hundreds of billions?

Or maybe those qualities are beyond the comprehension and imagination of the average Nigerian like yourself; which would be a tragedy in itself.

I also expect this point to be beyond your comprehension.

I will not bother to respond to you further.

You are right Mr SmartyPants

SmartyPants:
Nonsensical talk. What Wike did was a youth empowerment scheme by way of taxi driving.
Now to take a brief detour, note that the word used was "loyalist" which is a broad term you've disingenously switched out for "party member" in order to make your tedious point.

And in case you want to embarrass your education by claiming not to get the distinction, the difference is that loyalist is such a vague term that even someone who merely posts on twitter that they support a certain party could be called a loyalist. Is that a reasonable basis to deny someone an economic opportunity?

This is the bottom line: Are there 80 less unemployed youths today as a result? If yes, that's what matters no whether they are APC "loyalists"


Take it or leave it.

Of course that's all that matters.

Same way criminal governors inflate contracts to build flyovers, airports and roads to nowhere. But all that matters according to you, is that "they were built".

Like I have said many times on this forum, with people who think like you being in the majority, I frankly don't see a way out for Nigeria.

WizardOfNG:
Precisely. Many pretend not to note this because they are only concerned with demonizing Tinubu with anything they can use in that regard.

The bottom line is that children in other regions are experiencing bad times as well. Why did they not hit the street to loot, burn things and breach the peace as only Northern children did.

Is it not clear that these children are able to be exploited due to extreme poverty, hardship, illiteracy and street begging rampant especially in the North - a direct, visible, catastrophic failure of governance at state and federal levels?

And in your view, the best way to deal with minors is to lock them up in adult prisons?

You Nigerians are mostly heartless and truly deserve all of the current suffering plus the ones to come walahi.

SmartyPants:
They should share their data to conclusively prove that the 80 recipients are exclusively APC loyalists. However it must be said also that provided the loyalists-so called, cut across all regions and ethnicities of Nigeria, then there is no legal ground for complaints. Loyalists are Nigerian citizens after all.

You take money from our common patrimony, billions of naira, and you distribute to party members in the name of rewarding "loyalty".

The scary part is that majority of Nigerians think just like you. And we wonder why the country is the poverty capital of the world?

I'm neither disappointed nor surprised. You people's suffering is just warming up.

Of course a lot of Nigerians don't see any issues with such behaviour.

They'll say "if na you, your friends and loyalists no go benefit first?"

The inherent selfishness, myopism and cryonism plaguing the average African in particular.

Not knowing that the way criminal politicians like Wike handle smaller projects like this is the same way the bigger ones go - awarded to friends, cronies and fellow criminals in power.

A stunted country full of mostly fools.

And the ignorant buffoon called Iyin Aboyeji, without realising how privileged he is, went on national TV to say that Nigerians waste electricity, and are driving SUVs anyhow.

This is the thought system of most the agbado people in govt today.

Most Nigerians, especially the so-called leaders have lost hope in the country. Everyone is just waiting for doomsday at this point, while making sure their families are not in Nigeria.

Do with the above information what you will.

ShescreamEWOOO:
i tried having an office at ifite, i was at onitsha few weeks back, i do visit enugu frequently, imo too, i have visited all south east states and all recently.

In ss, sw and se, the only state i have not actually been to, just only passed through is rivers, ebonyi and osun and oyo.

Let me tell you again, ogun state has better roads than all the south east states, i mean, ogun state has better roads than anambra, imo, Enugu, abia, the only se state i can't say is ebonyi because i have mostly only been to their border towns. Ogun has better roads than all the south south states except akwa ibom and all the south west states except lagos.

Our problem in Nigeria ia heard mentality, once we hear anything we just fly off and start following trend without any form of confirmation.

If ogun that i know is judged as the center of bad roads then the whole ss, se, and sw are the world headquarters of death trap roads.

Lol.

Na you sabi o.

Nigeria remains the poverty capital of the world, but you think measuring dîcks and who has worse roads is fruitful use of my time?

I only pointed out the flaw in your logic. You can continue as you were, I don't give a damn about comparing roads.