Mr President @officialABAT, if a small number of cheaper trips proved that transport costs had fallen for ordinary Nigerians, you wouldn't need to write to Blessing, Ada, Abigail, and Kabir to advertise them.
A commuter saving ₦1,000 on one FCT route, students saving ₦2,400 on the Enugu to Nsukka route, a taxi driver completing extra trips on CNG, and some isolated ₦50 fares in Borno State are welcome for those who have them. They do not describe the system most households still use. Petrol remains the dominant fuel. Pump prices have risen sharply since the government removed the subsidy on 29 May 2023, and the same government that once said the subsidy was gone is now intervening in ways it claims will keep prices lower.
You list more than 400 conversion centres and over 120,000 converted vehicles, as well as buses delivered to Ekiti, Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Katsina, Kano, Edo, and Kaduna, with Kaduna’s 100 CNG buses having carried more than three million passengers. They remain small against a country of more than 200 million people whose daily movement still depends overwhelmingly on petrol. Lower operating costs for the vehicles that have switched do not automatically lower fares for everyone else, and the message itself records that many communities are still waiting.
The measures offered for the majority who have not switched undercut the claim of pure market pricing. You have waived over ₦3.3 trillion in fuel taxes and duties. NNPC Retail says it is "forgoing" its retail profit margin for 30 days as a measure presented as supporting public transport. You are working towards a proposed ₦1,350-per-litre ceiling discussed in relation to wholesale or landing costs. Forgone taxes are foregone public revenue. A state-owned retailer cutting its margin can also be read as a public concession. A ceiling under which suppliers carry shortfalls and recover them later is under-recovery by another name. These are not the absence of support. They are support rewritten so the old sentence can still be repeated.
You say every commitment must be sustainable and that anyone seeking to lead should explain what their promises will cost. The same standard applies here. The CNG programme is an investment whose benefits remain concentrated. The tax waiver, margin discount, and proposed ceiling are immediate fiscal or quasi-fiscal costs, but the government has not demonstrated full recovery. More than three years after the “subsidy is gone”, the government still intervenes in petrol pricing rather than leaving it fully to the market. Why? Because the decision and its implementation were poorly conceived.
Nigerians do not need selected testimonials to know whether transport has become broadly affordable. Most of them already know the answer from the fare they paid this morning.
I'm now 31. I can't work as a graduate trainee in most banks or Fintech in Nigeria due to age.
Their criteria is always;
> below 27
> NYSC certificate
>2.1
> atleasg 1yr experience
But if I manage to stay alive till 75yrs, when my brain cells will need more sleep then I'll be more than qualified to be the president of Nigeria that will determine the existence of any bank or industry in the country.
A single Policy made by President Tinubu on May 29th 2023 threw over 30million people below poverty line.
He doesn't have a first class.
He didn't go to any university.
He's not young.
But he's qualified to rule Nigeria because the criteria to rule Nigerians is to be dubious and incompetent.
Make it make sense
We designed a system to have the best in Private sectors and the worst in Politics running the Affairs of the entire nation.
Judicious in Micro economics but dastardly stupid in macroeconomic conditions.
JUSTICE FOR 15 YEARS OLD PRECIOUS
WHO WAS GANG-R&PED BY 4 BOYS,
THEY VIDEOED HER WHILE TAKING TURNS
& POSTED THE VIDEO ON INTERNET.
THIS HAPPENED IN UGHELLI NORTH
(ACE OF SPACE HOTEL) ON 13TH OF SEP.
#stayROFF
@Adikastakes Omg this is so Good❤️… Never say this man to be so down to earth and funny 😂😂… one interview and my whole ideology about Sir presido has changed
@terryflewers Terry, I never post but I love your content, I’m from Nigeria and I NEVER miss any match reaction, you have so much ball knowledge, except for when it comes to Man United, you make emotional reactions more often Give Carrick time and please let go of Bruno. He is the Virus.
I really think Arsenal have missed Lewis-Skelly in midfield today.
Bruno Guimarães deserves his flowers for that huge goal last week, but MLS has brought so much energy and dynamism to this Arsenal midfield.
Arsenal have looked unstoppable with him in there, and sometimes form should make the decision for you.
For me, dropping MLS was a mistake.
@TranDave5@_IanAFC He’s one of, why are you acting shocked? You just dey watch Arsenal ball? You think it’s easy to bench a player like Zubi? He’s underrated, he is a Champions league final player, not every player can ever say that even at this level.
🚨 THEY TOOK SKIN FROM HIS ARM TO SAVE HIS FOOT, DOCTORS TOLD HIM TO FORGET FOOTBALL AND BACTERIA BEGAN EATING AWAY AT HIS ACHILLES TENDON.
SANTI CAZORLA’S STORY IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE. 🇪🇸
In October 2016, Santi Cazorla was still one of Arsenal’s most important players.
He was 31.
He had already won trophies in Spain and England, played for the Spanish national team, and was one of the most technically gifted midfielders of his generation.
Then, during a Champions League game pagainst Ludogorets, everything changed.
Cazorla damaged his Achilles.
At first, it looked like another football injury.
Something he would recover from.
Something that would keep him out for a few months.
It became something far more serious.
Cazorla underwent surgery.
Then came the infection.
His wound repeatedly opened.
The skin around his ankle deteriorated.
And bacteria began eating away at his Achilles tendon.
Doctors eventually discovered that approximately 10 centimetres of his Achilles had been destroyed and the infection had reached his heel bone.
The situation became so serious that Cazorla was warned he could lose his leg.
Think about that.
A professional footballer wasn’t being asked when he would return to the pitch anymore.
The question had become whether he would even be able to walk normally again.
One doctor told him he should be satisfied if he could eventually walk around his garden.
And then came one of the strangest parts of the entire story.
The damage around his heel was so severe that doctors needed a skin graft.
They took skin from his forearm and used it to repair the damaged area around his ankle.
But it wasn’t just any piece of skin.
Cazorla had a tattoo of his daughter’s name on that arm.
When doctors took the skin, they effectively split the tattoo in two and used it as part of the graft on his heel.
And the nightmare still wasn’t over.
He underwent operation after operation.
The number kept climbing.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
Eventually, Cazorla went through 12 operations during the ordeal.
Every time they tried to close the wound, it could break open again.
The infection kept fighting back.
Cazorla later described how the skin would deteriorate and split, while the bacteria continued attacking underneath.
For almost two years, football disappeared from his life.
636 days without playing.
Arsenal eventually decided not to renew his contract.
The club where he had produced some of the best football of his career was now behind him.
Most players would have accepted that their career was over.
Cazorla didn’t.
He went to Salamanca to continue his rehabilitation away from his family in London.
He kept working.
Walking.
Running.
Rebuilding the muscles.
Trying to teach his body to do things it had once done without thinking.
And slowly, incredibly slowly, football started becoming possible again.
There was another problem.
Part of his Achilles was gone.
So doctors had to reconstruct it.
A new tendon was created using tissue from his hamstring.
The man who had once been told to settle for walking around his garden was now trying to become a professional footballer again.
Then came the phone call that changed everything.
Villarreal wanted him back.
This was the club where Cazorla had made his name in Spain.
The club where he had first become a professional footballer.
And somehow, after everything his body had been through, he returned.
In September 2018, almost two years after his last Arsenal appearance, Santi Cazorla stepped back onto a professional football pitch.
The comeback was real.
But it became even more remarkable than that.
Cazorla didn’t just return.
He became good again.
He played.
He created.
He scored.
He became one of Villarreal’s most important players again.
The footballer everyone thought had disappeared was back.
And eventually, his journey took him to Qatar with Al Sadd, where he played under Xavi.
Then came the final chapter.
The chapter that nobody could have written when Cazorla was lying in a hospital bed wondering whether he would ever walk properly again.
Real Oviedo.
His boyhood club.
The club he had dreamed of playing for as a child.
Oviedo had been through its own struggles. The club had fallen from the top flight and at one point faced the possibility of disappearing financially.
Cazorla had even helped save the club years earlier.
Now, decades after leaving his hometown, he came back.
Not for the money.
In 2024, at 39, Cazorla told the Guardian that he wanted to play for Oviedo on the minimum salary, with part of his income going toward the club’s academy.
He wasn’t returning because he needed another big contract.
He was returning because there was one thing left he wanted to experience.
Taking Oviedo back to La Liga.
And then, in 2025, at 40 years old, he helped make it happen.
Real Oviedo won the promotion playoff final.
After almost three decades away, Oviedo were back in Spain’s top division.
And Cazorla the same man who had once been told he might never walk properly again had helped take them there.
His injury had kept him out for 636 days.
He had undergone 12 operations.
Ten centimetres of his Achilles had been destroyed.
Skin from his tattooed arm had been used to repair his heel.
He had been warned about losing his leg.
He had been told to be satisfied with walking around his garden.
Instead, he returned to professional football.
Returned to Villarreal.
Played in Qatar.
Returned to his boyhood club.
And at 40 years old…
he helped take that club back to La Liga.
Sometimes a football comeback isn’t about returning to your best.
Sometimes it’s simply about refusing to accept that the story is over.
Santi Cazorla refused. 🇪🇸❤️