Modern marriages have turned Fathers to Second MOTHERS by asking them to clean and cook.
If she falls out of love, seeing you in the kitchen will start to disgust her.
POPULISM Vs REALISM...THE HERDS MENTALITY IN HUMANITY....
When Oshiomole indicated interest to contest for governor.... Edo state was agog..... many of us caught the Osho fever....
Okada men in Edo Were 100% with him and their colorful display made Oshio campaign glamorous...
his campaign slogan was " bye bye to poverty "...
In my centre I couldn't vote ... The PDP thugs hijacked all the materials.... it was same story across Edo state ...I saw women, men weeping...
Many claim ... tomorrow is bleak without Oshio... somehow Oshio became gov...
First term was excellent... he got 18/18 LGAs to return for 2nd term....
There was a problem.... Oshiomole has over borrowed to impress the expectant Edolites.... 2nd term was uninspiring.... it was below par.... today Edo wasn't turn to Dubai 10 years after Oshio left.... struggle continue....
Populist leaders are not always realist...
They create a picture of utopianism... Elites are ev*il... masses are all good people being enslaved...and he is the only saviour they need....
If Buhari didn't lead Nigeria....His cult followers in the North would tell you he would have turned the North to Singapore....
But he left the North and his cult followers poorer than he met them...
Populists have very simple solutions to complex problems.... but reality is different.... leading men is not a simple task even if they are just two men...not to talk of 245 million men...
Men are not controlled by Remote ....even electronics defy remote that forced the user to call technicians for help...
A populist will tell you he can make all the problems of Nigeria disappear in 8 years...
That is what the people want to hear...
Ask how they will get money to fix everything....
They tell you how they will magically block all revenue leakage and ensure that the over 3 million workers in Nigeria no longer steal Kobo from govt
These sweet talk have been use to impregn@te many innocent girls....
Just too sweet in the ear.... Mugabe was a populist... who never wanted his people to suffer by solving a complex problem with printing & sharing of money, but ended up making them buy a loaf of bread for 2 billion Zimbabwe dollars and died as a villain....
So was Mandela.... today nothing is inspiring in Southi... So was Pa Halfusa of Osun....
Melei of Argentina is now in soup after promising to bring heaven to Argentina in 2 years..... Sonko and Faye are about to crash Senegal economy....
Malians are no longer living in peace with the young man who promise to secure all of Mali....but he his now surrounded in the capital by terrorists...
Burkinabes would fight any wailers still praising their new dictator and oppressor
The serpent was a populist... that was why he was able to deceive Eve... Populists are serpents nothing distinguish them...
They promise you heaven and take you to Hell...
Campaign rallies are for sweet words ....I don't focus on them.... I read the manifestos .... I am still ticking the boxes of Tinubu manifestos...
That is what I would use to score him in 8 years....
That was why I was shocked when Obioma said he doesn't need manifesto... because like the serpent...he has the the sugar coated tongue to win his herds...
Populist are not realist..... leading men is a complex task.... any aspiring leader having simplistic ideas of fixing humanity...is not a leader but a fr@udster..
It's because of these populists that made the Urhobos to say...
It is better to born a thief than to born a mumu...
Proverbs are not for kids...
Tell me two popular candidate that follows Peter Obi to NDC that was given a chance to participate in free and fair primary election.
But their principal is ok since he has been given what he wants. This is one of the reasons those who work with him during governorship tenure in Anambra can't come out openly to support him.
Maponga Marara offers a thought-provoking perspective on Xenophobia in South Africa. Is the white man dividing black brothers and sisters when it's actually them that have the economy and the means of production?
"Is it not interesting that they are fighting for jobs? Jobs? Not ownership of industries. They are not fighting to own the businesses. They are fighting for the jobs. So maybe the real question to ask is: who is giving the jobs? "
Seeing how these black South Africans have mobilized to shutdown everything foreigner, made it clear that they were always able to take back their country.
They just don't want to.
They want to be ruled by the whites and Asians and at some point we just have to accept that fact.
Yet again , austerity does not create wealth.
Statements like this serves only one purpose and it’s to play to the gallery.
We have a wastage problem but it’s not our biggest problem.
I am more particular about a president more willing to interrogate long standing structural issues and help galvanize a well coordinated effort to “grow the pie” and improve human capital.
Thank you, Mr Gregory Peter Obi @PeterObi . If you notice, based on your tweet as a private citizen of Nigeria which you posted on 04/09/2022 regarding removing multiple exchange rates, President Tinubu heard you and others as a listening President and fixed it.
However, since you spoke your truth, that truth has been tested, but has now been twisted and flailed by you on various forums.
You once argued for discipline in markets, today you dance around the consequences of that very discipline. You once called for courage in policy, today you retreat into comfort in opposition and say it was wrong. What changed, sir? Was it the idea or the identity of the man who chose to act on it?
The current President, our President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, did exactly what you prescribed. Not in theory, not in tweets, not in tidy sentences, but in the hard, grinding reality of governance. He allowed the market breathe. He removed the distortion. He faced the storm. You asked for demand and supply, you got demand and supply, yet now you resist the very medicine you prescribed.
May I call it what it is? What you have been doing is not economics and not policy. It is performance.
Why? Because leadership is not about saying what sounds right, it is about doing what is right. And doing is different from saying, just as courage is different from commentary.
You say let the market decide, yet when the market decides, you decide to disagree. You say it is simple, yet you complicate it with selective memory. You preach consistency, yet you practice convenience.
So we must ask, and we will keep asking. What changed?
Was it conviction or calculation?
Was it principle or politics?
Was it belief or benefit seeing that you are now in bed with those you said are the problems of Nigeria?
Policy without consistency is noise, and consistency without courage is nothing.
Or was that tweet, like too many things we have seen, a careful copy without commitment, a borrowed thought without ownership, a manifesto stitched together from the ideas of others without the discipline to defend them when it matters?
You cannot demand reform and then reject reform. You cannot call for fire and then complain about heat. You cannot stand on principle and then step off it when it becomes inconvenient.
Say what you mean, Mr Gregory Peter Obi and mean what you say. Also stand where you stood because in the end, the test of leadership is not what you once tweeted, it is what you are willing to defend when those tweets come alive.
President Bola Tinubu will continue to Listen and act in the overall best interest of Nigerians.
Otega Ogra
Nigeria’s reliance on oil revenue has significantly declined, a recent study reveals
Nigeria’s reliance on oil revenue has significantly declined, a recent study reveals.According to a report by Quartus Economics titled “Nigeria Unshackled: Inside the Steady Rise of a Fiscal State,” the country’s revenue structure has shifted dramatically over the past decade. Tax income now constitutes 87 percent of federation revenues, signaling a major departure from decades of heavy dependence on crude oil.
The report notes that oil revenues currently account for only about 25 percent of total earnings, a steep decline from roughly three-quarters before 2014, highlighting Nigeria’s progress toward a more diversified and sustainable fiscal framework.
I dated a pastor one time.
He's AS and I'm AS.
We didn't know this until we were far gone into the relationship and it was a struggle to just bail out.
I was still very young and naive at the time. So, I prayed, fasted for weeks, rolled on his church's altar.
Sometimes, we have joint prayers, other times we just pray on our own.
In the midst of all this, we ran series of genotype tests to see if God has answered. When it comes out negative, we get back on our knees..
One time, his results came out different. It was AA. When he showed me, I leaped for joy. I was really excited. "Finally God had done it, heaven has finally smiled on us"... So I thought..
We decided to try a different hospital. This time, the result went back to normal, AS. I was confused. We tried another place, the same result. That was when it dawned on us that the previous (AA) was most likely an error..
We sort counsel from close friends. Most of them encouraged us to go ahead with our marriage plans, that God will do it.
That there's nothing impossible with God.
Pastor encouraged me to stay. He said God has used him before to change genotypes from SS to AA.
He told me that God was just testing our faith in Him.
Weeks later, I left. I chose me.
I chose peace. I thought of my unborn kids and how the wrong decision can leave them in pains for life or even cut short their lives, their dreams and ambitions.
I suddenly realized that I'll be a w*cked mum to go on with such risky decision.
He wasn't happy. He tried to convince me. But my mind was already made up.
Today, I'm in a better place. Married to one of the best men on earth with an AA genotype of course.
My kids are all doing well. Alive, energetic and healthy.
Pastor's genotype didn't change.
Imagine we got married?
A true life story.
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I think Peter Obi's move to ADC was a huge mistake for real. Lost major credibility overnight. Bro carried 2023 solo… pairing or coalition wasn't necessary at all. He just needed the loyal base and momentum from the last presidential run... plus a solid plan to safeguard votes after the polls this time.
Gaza vs Iran: Why America Can’t Win, Can’t Afford, and Can’t Walk Away.
Israel walked into Gaza with every excuse in the book after October seventh: hostages, rockets, tunnels, a crystal clear threat. Result? Two years later the jihadists are still armed, the streets are rubble, and the planet calls it Israel’s fault because Hamas stuck kids between bunkers and cameras. They turned their own slaughter into our war crime.
Now look at Iran. The IRGC shoots its own citizens, then points at Washington and yells, “See? That’s what your tweets did.” Same playbook, bigger stage, zero shame. They don’t care who dies; they only care who owns the narrative. No airstrike fixes that mindset.
Scale jumps a hundred fold. Gaza had a few thousand scrappers with fireworks. Iran has suicidal legions, factories buried under mountains, missiles that reload like printers, plus Beijing and Moscow whispering ammo routes. One prolonged scrape and the Gulf turns into Gaza, the price tag into trillions, and the dollar into wallpaper.
America’s cracks show already. Debt ceiling drama, gas lines, half the country screaming “bring the troops home.” Fire the first round and rallies hit every capital, China and Russia will fan the flames of domestic unrest.
Iran isn’t Gaza, isn’t Venezuela, isn’t Greenland. It’s a loaded gun aimed right at the world order itself.
One wrong move and the whole chessboard flips: energy chaos, dollar crashes, rivals take the throne. That’s the real target, not just some pipeline.
Bottom line: let the regime rot from inside. Sanctions bite, hacks steal, proxies bleed them dry. Anything louder invites a cancer we can’t cut out.