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RIP. Dude seemed like a nice and likeable person.

abc115:
God Bless President Bola Tinubu
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

The best President since 1999 by far for those who truly understand the fundamental problems of Nigeria and the holistic moves PBAT is making to address them.

Richtaiwo:
God bless president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria
God bless SW SS NC NE and NW

Lol. That image of "Mr.humility" cracks me up. Dey carry 2face Idibia bag. WTF.

abc115:
Just here to remind everyone that there is no provision for such a thing called ‘zoning’ amongst federating units. It was a manufactured policy introduced by the PDP’s first constitution.

Goodnight.


https://x.com/BashirElRufai/status/2054385635654344982

Good. Once it's clear there is no zoning then everyone face their papa house. After PBAT finishes his second term of course.

xjiggy:
He is not ignorant. He's following a template.
The first things Europe and America hit with sanctions, after Russia invaded Ukraine, were Russian banks, businesses and Elite. That's why Abramovic had to let go of Chelsea. What South Africans are doing to Nigerians and their businesses is pure wickedness and for the president to have kept quiet for so long, is wrong. The Moment Oshiomhole made that statement, Mapharosa Condemned his people's actions.

It would be easier, and far more effective, to cut off trade ties with SA till they accept our demands fully.

Yet Nigerian politicians, because of vested interests, will never do that.

Instead they will be sabre rattling and fooling Nigerians as usual talking of targeting MTN and DSTV.

harsysky:
How many companies or individuals can handle a tech giant like MTN without it losing its value, tell me.?

Don't mind them. Has Zimbabwe recovered today over Mugabe's dumb and myopic act of chasing out white farmers when native Zimbabweans lacked requisite skills and expertise to engage in commercial agriculture as successfully as white farmers did?

You dont cut your nose to spite your face. Only dumb people do that.

Felicity001:
You don't just break down a bridge completely, you do it gradually.

Look at the volume of trade and the amount involved, apart from the bad network and monthly subscription on dstv and gtv what is the Nigeria government benefitting directly from MTN and DSTV.

Lets first start from there.

Look we argue to learn.

Politicians should fight with what they control. I.e international trade etc. They should not encroach into areas that will affect and punish ordinary Nigerians .

I appreciate MTN and DSTV. So do many Nigerians. Put the vote to them and they will demand government leave those businesses alone and engage in bilateral trade war with SA instead.

Oshiomhole is just being a guy man. He should enjoy his big booty SA Olosho, he is flying around in private jets and giving foot massage, in peace.

This effort to position himself Nigeria's alagbara ain't cutting it with me and neither will it impress any exposed Nigerian.

Ofunaofu:
If Tinubu has already won before a vote is cast, then maybe advise INEC to save Nigerians the almost N1 trillion election budget and just announce him immediately. Why waste money conducting elections if the outcome is supposedly predetermined?

Also, criticism of Tinubu is not extremism, hatred, or tribalism. Nigerians across every tribe and religion are complaining because hardship has no ethnicity. Hunger is not Yoruba, insecurity is not Igbo, and inflation is not Hausa.

And please, nobody is demarketing Tinubu. Tinubu is the demarketer-in-chief of his own administration.

And the irony is that you accuse others of demarketing him while simultaneously admitting people are rejecting him in large numbers. That rejection is not manufactured; it is the natural consequence of governance Nigerians can feel in their pockets every single day.

Spare us the emotional blackmail about breakfast and extremism. Citizens questioning a government is democracy, not terrorism. If Tinubu’s performance is truly excellent, Nigerians will reward him with votes. If not, no amount of gaslighting, ethnic baiting, or fear mongering will rescue a bad government

Empty noise. Why did you not key into decency, that is meant to be a part of most well-calibrated Nigeria's, to first and foremost insist the cleric has no business inciting Muslims?

If someone makes a clearly racist and religiously incendiary comment, do you ignore that to praise their general talk?

When Nigeria finally descend into chaos it will be cause of religious extremism from the likes of the Muslim cleric you rush to applaud and the Igbo pastor who told his congregation anyone that votes Tinubu will die.

Yvngex:
Looks like you didn't hear were Oshiomhole said the president of SA is a major shareholder in MTN and it was only after he (Oshiomhole) called them out that the SA president condemned the killing in his country.

All that talk of SA President and shares in MTN na wash. If we mean business, then we enter trade war with SA if we are ready to go to any lenght to protect our people.

America etal do it all the damn time. Oshiomhole dey whine una. Don't we have examples of how other nations behave when in our situation that never involve targeting privately owned businesses? They initiate trade war and hostility instantly !!

Nigeria should instantly stop crude oil supply to SA. Oshiomhole should suggest that. Yet he won't because he may even be benefiting directly or by proxy with Nigeria's bilateral trade with SA.

Astrid4:
You’re dumb very dumb
Chelsea is a fvckin private business why did UK govt held an ordinary Russia private citizen responsible for the Ukrainian war
That is fvckin standard in every part of the world

Many of you have made this example and I guess it is because Nigerians are avid football fans. Yet most of you don't appreciate the full picture.

The UK Government did not target all Russian businesses in their nation. It was specific targeting and Abramovich was sanctioned because he is a Russian oligarch with wealth linked to state capture of Russia by Putin and his cronies.

The world wanted to cut off Russia's wealth to diminish their ability to fund war against Ukraine.

Asset seizure of cronies of Putin, like Abramovich, was legitimate tactics for a NATO-led world that felt Russia did wrong yet did not want military engagement with Russia knowing the nations nuclear capacity.

You may not accept that but Russia opened itself up to any retaliatory effort after declaring war on Ukraine. War is different business entirely. Almost no rules apply.

Bluntemperor:
The TRUTH is that President Nelson Mandela will be weeping today in his sleep,
For this cannot be a South Africa he worked and died for ,as many of South African leaders ,
-have abandoned the Rule of Law,
-Equality Before the Law,
-Democracy ,
-Education for Total Development and
-Ensuring Fairness to All Blacks in African Content!
Besides,why the rise of Xenophobia - IS NOT BEING CONDEMNED BY PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA IS STILL UNIMAGINABLE!😩

The bolded is true yet the world is becoming more protectionists today and anti-immigration sentiments is rising everywhere globally because resources are becoming scarce and many nations now see a need to prioritise the needs of their own people above that of immigrants.

As a critical and pragmatic thinker, I can understand it. Nigeria may have to do same some day if we suddenly become far more prosperous than others leading to high levels of immigration into our nation.

What I will never understand is the nature that predisposes a people to hunt down and kill others merely because they are foreigners in their land.

What is sad is that we cannot make more of what God has given us, which is a lot, to turn Nigeria into a nation no Nigerian would wish to leave to migrate to south Africa in search of a better life.

Ofunaofu:
Everyone is rejecting Bola Tinubu .... old and young, Muslims, Christians, traditionalists, atheists… literally everyone, irrespective of tribe, ethnicity, or religion.

Deep down, even Tinubu knows he has failed woefully and spectacularly and doesn’t deserve reelection. If Tinubu were in the opposition, even he would reject Tinubu.

Tinubu has won even before a vote has been cast. You know that and this is why you jump on threads like this to engage in efforts to demarket Tinubu when you should be castigating those using religion to incite Nigerians.

When the worst happens, God forbid, you will begin to cry. Responsible men never fail to keep what matters in sight.

Obvious you are not one with how you cannot see what is gravely wrong with the statement below considering Nigeria is currently a very divided and terrorised nation.

Keep fanning the flame of extremism irresponsibly because of bigoted hatred of Tinubu and his ethnic group.

Na everybody go chop the breakfast the senseless and irresponsible behaviour of you and your ilk will serve up.

“If You Are a True Muslim, You Will Not Vote For This Tinubu’s Government

Lol. Moslem cleric from the North “If You Are a True Muslim, You Will Not Vote For This Tinubu’s Government ".

Igbo Christian pastor "anyone who votes for Tinubu will die".

Is this still democracy? We are all watching this extremism and saying nothing. When the worst happens, let us all ensure we identify those responsible for getting us there again with their historically extremist and intolerant nature.

harsysky:
So of all the things a wise man like you can use to threaten south africa, it is MTN and Multichoice? You clearly have no thinking faculty. Has there been any led delegates to southafrica to broker any peace talk to start with? So if you had a headache, you would prefer to cut off your head to avoid the pains? Think, please

Thank you. This is the point I have been making non-stop.

If we are serious, and our leaders are ready to protect Nigerians at any cost, why not bilateral trade war against SA?

Kukuma go for the jugular as USA etal do all the time. Which one is MTN, DSTV etc?

obongtunji:
Do you know SA's president has major share in MTN ? After Osho's outburst at the floor of the Senate The SA president for the first time has com to condemn the attack. Werey lafinwo werey

All that talk of SA President and shares in MTN na wash. If we mean business, then we enter trade war with SA if we are ready to go to any lenght to protect our people.

America etal do it all the damn time. Oshiomhole dey whine una. Don't we have examples of how other nations behave when in our situation that never involve targeting privately owned businesses? They initiate trade war and hostility instantly !!

Nigeria should instantly stop crude oil supply to SA. Oshiomhole should suggest that. Yet he won't because he may even be benefiting directly or by proxy with Nigeria's bilateral trade with SA.

Felicity001:
I think you're the ignorant one here, united kingdom did it to Chelsea fmr owner Abramovic, they sold the company and didnt even give him a dine from the proceeds.

If Nigeria kills cameroonians simply because they're striving in Nigeria and our Government do not do anything to it the Cameroon government can decide to to shutdown Dangote's company on their soil as a way of retaliation because they can't come to.nigeria and give justice to the matter.

So im in full support of what Oshomole is saying.

The truth is, if xenophobia have not affected you you wont know the pain.

I have always strongly condemned xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in SA. It is unacceptable. This round of it that has led to the death of two of our citizens must not be tolerated.

Yet, our indolent leader must not use the development to burnish their own reputation.

Why does Oshiomhole suggests soft targets, i.e South African-owned businesses operating in Nigeria, when he should move for cessation of bilateral trade with South Africa beginning with Nigerian ending their supply of crude to them?

Is it because he knows that will affect the income of Nigeria which may affect him and his private interests?

They are taking you for a ride bro. Leaders know what they have to do to protect Nigeria globally. Yet they never do those things. Na today?

They leave us to our fate globally to be mistreated and then begin impotent sabre rattling when issues like this arise.

Why can't Nigeria cease bilateral trade with South Africa instantly till we get justice for the Nigerians killed in SA?

You think other nations won't view us guilty of distractive cowardice and failing our people if the best we can suggest is targeting businesses when we can go directly for the jugular of SA over trade relationship with them?

Samtob90:
Besides the live list, are economic of Nigerian not being destroyed?
All the measure attempts to do is force the government to act. The companies are owned by majority of their citizens including the president, if they forsee their interests would be affected, they will force the government to act

If Nigeria is serious, we should sanction SA officially. Bilateral trade with SA is in Nigeria's favour. We should not be targeting South African businesses operating in Nigeria.

We are behaving like a rogue and lawless nation doing that. If Nigerian leaders really view the killing of Nigerians as unacceptable then we should start by sanctioning SA over bilateral trading we host with them.

The likes of Oshiomhole love sabre rattling emptily to con us that care and are working. Why can't he insist we stop crude export to SA that may have an impact on his own lavish income?

They know what they have to do if they are ready to get justice for Nigerians murdered in South Africa.

Th USA can invade Nigeria, to grab perpetrators themselves, if two of their citizens are murdered.in our nation. They won't be targeting Bayo Ogunlesi and his business interest.

Counterigbolies:
these people know the truth but simply because they want their own to b president they are pretending tinubu isn't working

How can u compare obi a known failure as governor to tinubu a performer.

If they want their own to b president it's understandable, but saying obi is d best is bullshit

Absolutely. The bolded in you post is the truth 100%. A quick way to note principled people is their readiness to always admit factual reality.

Nigeria cannot be winning world central Bank of year award, while global economists are all praising Tinubus leadership to high heaven, and Obidients are lying that Tinubu has has 'tanked global image of Nigeria in 4 months".

As you said, this is simply about them wanting their own to be President and not because they are sincerely seeking the socio-economic progress of Nigeria.

potent5:
You know APC machines and dishonest propagandists when you hear them say "you guys". They like profiling other people as if it's "they versus us". That is how you people have divided Nigeria. Someone cannot have his personal opinion again without being termed "you guys". I pity you, honestly.

You have justified my point when I mention "you guys". You pretentiously cite decentralization of Seaports as very important to you and indicate it is an issue you hold against Tinubu.

Shown the factual reality of how Tinubu is actually working to deliver what you claim to want, you veer of course to be talking about "personal opinion".

Most of "you guys" are simply not honest or progressive. You lack integrity because what you claim you want is not what you really want.

You, for example, if sincere, should have commented about what was revealed showing the effort of the Tinubu government to deliver decentralization of seaports you indicated is important to you. Instead you are talking of "APC machines and dishonest propagandists".

PlasmaTV:
You overrate someone who has tanked the economy, security, and global image of Nigeria in 4 months.

If it's Obi v Tinubu, let the election be free and fair. Tinubu will get a one way ticket to iragbiji without further ado.

Kai. Una sabi lie. You think we are all illiterates? The bolded is a figment of your prejudiced imagination and never reality.

Nigeria is currently highly regarded globally because the world understands the reforms we must embrace to move forward and they see Tinubu , of all Presidents since 1999, is the leaders most committed to implementing these needed reforms bravely and diligently.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph5XCf8jgOE?si=UavABuv3DF7se-Bj

Macphenson:
No that's not true, recent calculation favours Atiku. Mind you am a Peter Obi supporter. Go and mark it, if care is not taken, Atiku might be the next President

Not possible.

potent5:
He is spinning a yarn. Twisting what we already know in order to hoodwink us. If Tinubu is restructuring, let him start with seaports. When he earnestly decentralizes sea ports, I will take him seriously. Otherwise, all na wash.

No he is not. He is an intelligent guy who understands what Nigeria has to do to become developed.

If he profiles correctly, he can easily become a political leader in future.

Per Seaports, let's focus on what is factual. We live in an information age and it is disingenuous pursuing an agenda of giving a dog a bad name to hang it.

You guys should let go of historical prejudice and vendetta to get behind Tinubu if progress for yourselves and your generations unborn is what you truly seek.

Fsctually, Tinubu is doing the business. You guys just don't wish to see it and are not ready to defer to facts.

Tenses:
tinubu is not restructuring nothing. The northerners are scared that if he is return as president for the second time he will do worst to the north than he's doing presently.

Just his first tenor he has jailed almost all the prominent leaders in the the north. How much more he will do when he returns with nothing to loose.

Lies. It is unprogressive Northerners, because they are used to the welfarist set-up of Nigeria where government stipend subsidize all aspect of their lives from currency arbitrage to hajj trip, who do not want Tinubu to continue next year.

They have failed. You lot better get ready for a reformed Nigeria from next year where the foundation will be laid quickly and aggressively for a nation where merit, innovation, free market economy and private-sector energy will define Nigeria.

No more quota system and padi padi bullcrap that destroyed Nigeria and some Northerners are addicted to.

LagosOrigin:
Who's Prince of Lagos and why do you hate the truth so much ?

Lol. You are. Funny also how you quote Aregbesola who is the worst and most incompetent Minister of interior in the Post-1999 history of Nigeria.

Like the Devil claiming Jesus is evil. Lol.

LagosOrigin:
Everybody should be worried because , if tinubu can destroy Nigeria in his first term, he will plunge the country into unrecoverable debt in his second term (god forbids)

PrinceOgLagos, I have known you for years now since #EndSARS. When are you going to let go of the senseless hatred you have for Tinubu? Did he burgle your house or stole your life savings?

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu doesn’t know what restructuring means.

Tinubu and restructuring are like two parallel lines.....they can never meet.

You and your co-travellers are just unprogressive nuisances. Look at what is shown below and you will note that it is the template Tinubu is following holistically.

No Government has fought to deliver full local Government autonomy as Tinubu has done.

We have regional development commissions for every geopolitical bloc of Nigeria today and something your SE has begged several Government for with Tinubu now being the President to oblige.

Regional development commissions, run well, can be arbiters of regional autonomy.

There is so much more that is real and factual towards restructuring of Nigeria Tinubu has done and I am always taken aback to note how unprincipled you lot are with your dishonesty and denial of korokoro truth because I will never deny facts and reality against even my worst enemy.

That is what being principled and upright is about and I personally feel I owe it to myself to be that always rather than be lying shamelessly against others I don't like.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/swest-govs-propose-six-regions-demand-lg-autonomy-resource-control/%3famp

MadPolitician:
What is he talented at? Stealing electoral boxes and raising an army of street úrç-hìñz?

Tell us where and where he has shown this much vaunted "talent" as the president!

In nepotism? In gross mismanagement of the economy? In wayward kleptomania??

Yeyee

You're prejudiced. I'd be wasting my own time trying to show you what you aren't willing to see.

Segxydube:
How is it dumb? So if kano pple dey kill pple frm south, other southerners should seal danngote companies because he is frm kano?

Indeed. The laws are even very clear. Nigeria must show MTN's direct link with the xenophobic attacks that led to the death of two Nigerians to justify any effort to "nationalise" MTN and hand it over to Nigerian investors as Oshiomhole demanded.

Sure, Nigerians are angry including myself. Yet we cannot do what Oshiomhole suggests. We are not in the days of Robert Mugabe or Idi Amin.

Nigeria in particular needs foreign investors/investment. The current Government is working to make Nigeria more investors friendly by improving our image as a nation where foreign businesses and investment enjoy full legal protection operating in Nigeria.

Oshiomhole is just sabre rattling egotistically and emptily because that is what Nigerian political leaders do instead of going about their duty diligently and effectively. State takeover of MTN cannot happen under Tinubu.

lionshare:
Every time I read your comment, I wonder if your education is incomplete, like Rufai’s. In diplomacy, there’s no distinction between Apple, Microsoft, and Uncle Sam—which is why the South African president made multiple trips to Nigeria during the MTN sanctions under Buhari’s government. Why else would their president concern himself with MTN?
Now, in this instance, lives have been lost, yet you’re focused on investments. The very foundation of any investment—law, order, and economic returns—has been undermined. Extrajudicial killings of our people provide more than enough grounds to sanction them decisively.
There’s a reason TikTok’s U.S. operations have separate ownership. Ultimately, a nation’s primary asset isn’t its land, but its people.

Ogbeni stop talking nonsense. Sanctioning businesses is same as "nationalising" them?
You must think countries can do as they want against businesses operating within their border without legal consequences.

The laws are clear. Under what valid reason will Nigeria justify nationalising MTN and handing it over to Nigerian investors as Oshiomhole demanded?

Especially over events that happened in SA that MTN cannot be directly linked with. Is it in national interest or for public purpose for MTN to be siezed by Nigeria?

I own three registered businesses in Nigeria. It is people who have never built anything, perhaps that may include you, that will believe the businesses of others can just be hijacked on a whim.

Nigeria will never scale the legal hurdle to take over MTN. You lot love arguing too much whe factual and definitive knowle8can be obtained in seconds. Nonsense.

UrVillageChief:
Really? Where was your voice when the UK forced Abrahamovich to sell off the team he built with his entire life just because a ‘wrongdoer’ happened to be his President? What was Abrahamovich offense? Being a wealthy Russian man?
Why are we even having this discussion? How many more Nigerians must be killed before we start sending strong messages to the world that Nigerian lives aren’t something to toy with?
Do you know why even the most hardened of terrorists always avoid killing Americans? No you don’t. At best, they kidnap them in order to have big bargaining chips. They avoid killing Americans because they know what the country is capable of doing to get their painful revenge. Dealing with the South African businesses in Nigeria would ultimately send a strong message to people around the world that Nigeria doesn’t joke with its citizens. Just because we aren’t doing nothing, this same trend almost happened in Ghana few months ago (though I’m not in support of what that one that called himself an Igbo king did) and this is to tell you that if we keep tolerating things like this, a time will come when no country will ever take us seriously again. Buhari’s docile demeanor and reaction to that first wave of xenophobia attacks on Nigerians (majorly Igbo business people) is one of the many tacit catalysts that led and emboldened these weereeys to think they can do whatever they like with Nigerians and get away with it because they know there are definitely not going to be consequences. The killings of Nigerians both home and abroad must start attracting heavy consequences going forward. Rufia Oseni must be very stpd for even having this argument. It’s not everything that should be debated. This is time we leave our differences aside and face these savages. This is simply unacceptable! Enough is enough.

Look, there is almost nothing off the table when War breaks out. That is the case with Russia and Ukraine conflict.

Xenophobic attacks is a crime for policing authority to deal with. How do you not understand this simple concept?

Russia and Ukraine are at War. Nigeria and South Africa are not. Murderous xenophobes killed two of our fellow Nigerians. They should be brought to justice. We must insist on that.

Mccullum:
When Russia attacked Ukraine, Russian businesses and their business men paid for it in Europe and US.

So therefore, if the South African government fails to make a law that will caution and stop xenophobic aggression against Nigerians and other citizens of other African countries. Nigerian government can diplomatically frustrate their investors and investment in Nigeria as reciprocity policies.

We are talking about War in the case of Russia and Ukraine. Xenophobic attack is criminal action for policing authority to deal with.

Nigeria cannot threat xenophobic attacks against Nigerians in South Africa as if we are at war with them.

We should focus on getting justice for our fellow Nigerians killed and then work continuously to ensure South Africa moves to curb xenophobic attacks against our people. It is that simple.

Misterone:
Businesses are governed by laws, so also, citizens are governed by laws. If you can look the other way when the law doesn't favour you, so also, we can look the other way when it doesn't favour us. If the South African government can't call it's citizens to order when they commit genocide, then it means the South African government is in support of the crimes committed by it citizens. They are the motivating factor. We also will remove all south Africans by nationalising their businesses

Lol. Which nation will want to trade with us or invest in Nigeria if we do the agbero suggestion bolded in your post? Can you listen to yourself?

It won't happen and Nigeria cannot dare try such under Tinubu who is focused on presenting our nation as one that operates with integrity which ensure investors have full protection operating in Nigeria.

You are simply being emotional like Oshiomhole. I am unhappy two Nigerians died.

Justice must be down and their killers brought to book the right way and never through Nigeria acting like a lawless lynch mob nation.

You will "nationalise" MTN and DSTV how? Do you think MTN and DSTV don't have legal rights protecting their ownership structure merely because they operate in Nigeria?