The 'didirin association' videos are contemptible.
I see someone scornfully taking advantage of people who are challenged and there's little to relish.
BREAKING: The Trump administration made a deal with the Houthis — reportedly promising not to strike Houthi-held territory or support Saudi-backed forces, in exchange for keeping the Bab el-Mandeb open to shipping, per Reuters.
It came just days after Donald Trump rejected the Saudi Crown Prince's request for U.S. strikes on the Houthis. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called Trump twice asking for American firepower. Trump refused both times.
The meeting was held at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat. The Houthi delegation included senior official Mohammad Abdulsalam, who is under U.S. sanctions. The Houthis told U.S. officials they had no intention of attacking American vessels and were committed to the 2025 ceasefire — except those belonging to Saudi Arabia.
The meeting also came just days after the Houthis captured Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline and Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb, routing Saudi-backed forces.
This is why the current structure of Lawma picking PSPs centrally does not work cos what will work for Ikoyi may not work for Bariga.
In my opinion, LGs should be the ones to pick PSPs in partnership with CDAs.
Let Lawma HQ only deal with industries and highways.
Dear @jidesanwoolu and @followlasg,
A child’s access to emergency healthcare should never depend on having cash in hand.
This disturbing account alleges that this woman had to leave her sick child and struggle to find cash because a Lagos General Hospital would not accept bank transfer or POS payment, forcing her to negotiate with a designated POS operator at an inflated charge (N600 to collect N13,000) before her child could receive attention.
She was fortunate to eventually get the cash elsewhere at a better price. What happens to the next parent who cannot?
In an emergency, every second matters. Lagos State’s Patient Bill of Rights guarantees patients urgent and immediate care during emergencies.
We call on the @followlasg, @LagHealthScheme, and relevant health authorities to investigate this allegation, review payment systems across public hospitals, and ensure that payment challenges never become a barrier to care.
Healthcare first. Payment should never cost a life.
@Fmohnigeria Prof. @muhammadpate
Video Credit - Kayafat.Oshodi - TikTok
All the tips on how housing can be better in Lagos will never come to fruition simply because the government of the day is a rentier one. They can never create prosperity and they only seek ways to take the little you have. The amount of LAS* agencies is a good place to start
Let’s talk about education in Northern Nigeria, shall we?
Kano and Kwara States’ JAMB results:
Kwara State
Population: 3.4 million
300+: 443
250–299: 3,034
200–249: 15,215
Kano State
Population: 17.5 million
300+: 36
250–299: 407
200–249: 3,484
Well, one state prioritises education, while the other organises mass weddings for its poverty-stricken populace.
Let’s talk about education.
The whole of SOKEZA—Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara—has just 18 candidates who scored above 300 in JAMB.
Kwara State alone has 443 candidates who scored 300 and above.
And I’m comparing Northern Nigerian states. If we get to the southern states, we’ll start crying.
Northern Nigerian states are not in any way serious about education.
What our politicians are good at is sponsoring mass weddings, building useless flyovers, and embezzling public funds.
We spent months tracking 5,467 bets from Nigeria's biggest sports betting influencers.
The bets were worth ~$4.8 million.
We wanted to answer a simple question:
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With: @thimmie_onas@temiladeoluwaaa
positiva : Bosi , Owowo , BSWA, ZabaZaba and Etan and whatever Total is running deepwater get to show us how adaptable the new tax policy is
- local content mandates to Fabrication and techinal services is a very strong indicator of the thinking
Dear Nigerians,
For many years, Nigeria has possessed some of the most promising deep offshore oil and gas resources in the world, yet several major developments have remained stalled. Oil lies beneath our waters. We have the engineers, businesses and young people capable of doing increasingly sophisticated work in the sector. What has often been missing is the certainty required for investors to commit billions of dollars, over many years, at the scale needed to turn that potential into production, jobs and opportunity for Nigerians.
We cannot afford to leave that opportunity beneath our waters for another decade.
I have therefore signed the Deep Offshore Oil and Gas Projects Incentives (Tax Remission) Order, 2026, to provide clear and predictable terms for a new generation of deep offshore investment in Nigeria.
The framework has the potential to unlock up to $50 billion in investment, beginning with the approximately $10 billion Bonga South West project. For existing deep offshore leases, there is a clear window to reach Final Investment Decision by 31 December 2029 and receive the full standard incentive available under the Order.
There is urgency to this work. Capital moves, and countries compete for it every day. The countries that attract long-term investment are not necessarily those with the greatest natural resources. They are the ones that provide the greatest certainty.
Nigeria must be one of those countries.
This Order marks the tenth major policy directive of my administration targeted specifically at the oil and gas sector. Each has dealt with a constraint holding back investment, production or value creation. Taken together, they represent a deliberate effort to make our oil and gas industry more competitive, attract capital back to Nigeria and ensure that more of the value created from our resources remains here at home.
But attracting investment is only half of my purpose.
I want the work that comes with these projects to come home to Nigeria. I want our engineers involved, our fabrication yards working, our marine and technical service companies securing contracts, and our young people acquiring skills that will remain valuable long after the first barrel is produced.
The Order reflects this priority. For projects accessing its supplementary incentives, activities are to be performed in Nigeria, subject to clearly defined exceptions and Nigerian Content requirements.
My ambition is that we use this new investment cycle to build Nigeria into Africa’s regional hub for deep offshore project execution. We should not only possess the resources. We should increasingly possess the skills, businesses and industrial capacity required to develop them.
When I engaged the Chief Executive Officer of Shell plc, Mr Wael Sawan, I directed my team to look beyond a solution for one company or one project. We needed a framework that could unlock a wider pipeline of investment while protecting Nigeria’s long-term interests.
That framework is now in place.
Ultimately, I will judge its success by what Nigerians see from it in terms of good jobs, stronger Nigerian businesses, greater production, increased revenues for the Federation and new capabilities built here at home.
Our natural resources must work harder for our people.
That is the purpose of this decision, and we will pursue it with urgency.
Nigeria First.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces
Federal Republic of Nigeria
I think what the Oyo State Government has done to combat insecurity is commendable.
Every registered bike rider must wear a vest with a scannable QR code. Once scanned, it displays the rider’s full information.
Other states should replicate this.
I remember when I made the mistake of treating my dad like a client.
He asked me to represent him during a legal settlement over one of his business matters.
Before the meeting started, I warned him:
“Dad, just keep quiet, don’t interrupt me. Let me handle this.”
Everything went smoothly.
The moment we stepped outside, he gave me a light knock on my head and said:
“So… who exactly were you talking to like that?”
Statement attributable to the FIFA President
The FIFA Forward Enterprise project was intended to provide a basis for further strengthening our FIFA Member Associations and our sport worldwide, especially in those countries where support is most needed. And more so, as we said from the outset, to do this only if a majority of the FIFA Member Associations were in support and always subject to a consultation process with them, the FIFA Council, the Confederations and wider stakeholders.
Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place.
Our purpose has always been - and will always be - to unite and improve.
As a result, this proposal will not proceed.
Moving forward, my intent is to bring all interested parties back together in the coming days and weeks in the spirit of shared interest in our game, and with the objective to continue growing football everywhere, particularly in those countries that mostly need our support.