Okigbo

Leaning Justice as Fairness | Democratic Socialist | Lawyer | Husband & Father

[Okigbo @bslder]

Democratic socialism

[Okigbo @bslder]

FUEL SUBSIDY MUST RETURN BY EVERY MEANS NECESSARY.

THE POOR OF THIS COUNTRY HAVE SUFFERED UNTOLD CRUELTY AT THE HANDS OF KLEPTOCRATS IN THE LAST 3 YEARS.

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

On the question of subsidy, my position has not changed and will not change: I will restore it! A nation as blessed as ours has no business abandoning its citizens to hardship. Nigeria is rich enough to look after her own.

I believe the wealth of a nation is not measured by how much government collects, but by how much the money in the pockets of its people can buy.

I want wages to have value again. I want farmers to move produce without transport swallowing their profits. I want families to fill their baskets without emptying their pockets. I want businesses to produce, employ and prosper.

That is why I will restore targeted subsidy and put purchasing power back in the hands of Nigerians.

When fuel rises, transport rises. When transport rises, food rises. When food rises, families suffer.

I will break that wretched chain that has defined our national life in the nearly four years of Tinubu’s presidency.

I will support Nigerian production, reduce energy costs and restore purchasing power. I will not restore the import racket; I will restore relief.

I restated this commitment when I received the Osun State leadership of the ADC in Abuja on Tuesday.

I will make the naira in your pocket worth more, make daily living affordable again, and secure our people.

Economic security. Physical security. A better life for every Nigerian.

That is the Nigeria I intend to build. -AA

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

On the question of subsidy, my position has not changed and will not change: I will restore it! A nation as blessed as ours has no business abandoning its citizens to hardship. Nigeria is rich enough to look after her own.

I believe the wealth of a nation is not measured by how much government collects, but by how much the money in the pockets of its people can buy.

I want wages to have value again. I want farmers to move produce without transport swallowing their profits. I want families to fill their baskets without emptying their pockets. I want businesses to produce, employ and prosper.

That is why I will restore targeted subsidy and put purchasing power back in the hands of Nigerians.

When fuel rises, transport rises. When transport rises, food rises. When food rises, families suffer.

I will break that wretched chain that has defined our national life in the nearly four years of Tinubu’s presidency.

I will support Nigerian production, reduce energy costs and restore purchasing power. I will not restore the import racket; I will restore relief.

I restated this commitment when I received the Osun State leadership of the ADC in Abuja on Tuesday.

I will make the naira in your pocket worth more, make daily living affordable again, and secure our people.

Economic security. Physical security. A better life for every Nigerian.

That is the Nigeria I intend to build. -AA

[Okigbo @bslder]

Removal of subsidy has really rattled this kleptocracy

[Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT]

“CHEAPER FUEL MUST MEAN CHEAPER TRANSPORT FARES”: PRESIDENT TINUBU, GOVERNORS MOVE TO CUT TRANSPORT FARES NATIONWIDE

I am pleased with my discussion with the Governors’ Forum this afternoon. The Governors have, on their own initiative, resolved to take immediate measures to bring down the cost of transportation in their states, with a strong focus on leveraging the cost benefits of CNG and electric vehicles.

The Federal Government is already investing significantly in this energy transition. Through the Presidential CNG Initiative, over 120,000 vehicles have been converted nationwide, with more than 100,000 additional conversion kits in the works. At the same time, we continue to expand conversion centres and refuelling infrastructure nationwide.

The Federal Government, through the Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund, is currently financing more than 100 gas projects across the country, including 15 CNG mother stations and 86 daughter stations. In May, I commissioned four of these projects in Lagos, Abuja and Owerri, including a 15-station refuelling network in Lagos and an Abuja facility that can serve 1,000 cars and tricycles and 50 trucks and buses a day.

I have also directed the additional rollout of another 500 CNG refuelling stations nationwide in addition to the 500 stations ordered earlier in the year by the Fund, bringing the programme to 1,000 stations across the country.

Intra-state transport is where Nigerians feel the cost most directly, and it is where the states hold the levers. I am encouraged that our Governors are moving to bring these benefits closer to the people they serve.

We have agreed to set up a joint Federal and State committee to begin implementing these measures immediately. A vehicle running on CNG spends 60 to 80 per cent less on fuel than one running on petrol.

From October 1, our goal is that Nigerians begin to partake in those savings through lower transport fares.
We have agreed that cheaper fuel should result in cheaper fares!

Each tier of government must keep doing its part and work together for the benefit of every Nigerian.

Nigeria First.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
The Aso Villa
Abuja
27 August, 2026

@NigeriaGov @NGRPresident

[Okigbo @bslder]

What this woman is doing is illegal. You must pay your employees their base/basic salary whether or not they meet your so-called goals. If their performance is not up to scratch you can sack, you can't refuse to pay basic salary on any ground whatsoever

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Princess Oghene, fashion entrepreneur and founder of GMYT Academy on how she pays staff salaries.

She pays herself a monthly salary.

Before her staff gets their monthly salaries, they have to write down the problems they're solving every day. Which is tailored to their offer letters.

All these are measured weekly, bi-weekly and monthly.

If they don't meet their targets, they don't get paid.

[Okigbo @bslder]

Who is this one?

[Tech/Finance Esq. @NOTIMEisNOTIME]

Always angry at VDM but you haven't even dedicated a day to go to Ikoyi prison and help the people incarcerated.

Yes, una go dey call una self "servants in the temple of justice"

[Daoptimist⚓🌊🔥✨ @GallantDaletian]

High-ranking officers were seated when a man made a bold claim and statement that the military itself are the unknown gunmen! There was zero evidence or proof to back up his claims.

The Colonel was visibly upset, you could tell by the reaction on his face! This is not just an insult, but a disrespect to the men and women of this institution.

[Okigbo @bslder]

Atiku just upended the 2027 Presidential election with his promise to remove fuel subsidy

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Just met a man full of lamentations from spending two days to get to Lagos from the South East of Nigeria, not South East Asia.. The major economic artery roads are almost immotorable. The consequent gridlocks tell of the failure of consequence management in Nigeria and the limits of government by propaganda. Tongue-in-cheek I suggested they should have tried the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. Priorities used to be a key word in planning and budgeting literature. That too may have been flushed down the toilet when Tropical Gangsters rode into town.

[Okigbo @bslder]

This is commendable, can the average civil servant afford it like our parent's parents did in the 80s with their legitimate earnings?

[Bayo Bilisi (Back Up) @Bayo_Bilisi]

We no wan hear say Ogun state was a former capital oh 😂

See what the governor turned a forest into.

4,000 housing estates.
Low-cost for that matter.

We don't save money in bank in Yorùbá land, we save lives by using government funds religiously

[Okigbo @bslder]

No Onyeka its called "reference"

[Onyeka Nwelue @onyekanwelue]

In music, they see it is ‘cover.’ In literature, they call it ‘plagiarism.’

[Okigbo @bslder]

We have respect for our elders in Nigeria, call me Sir

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

“If Governor Sanwo-Olu can travel from Lagos to Osun to support APC with N1 billion, he should pay our pension.”
-Lagos Pensioners protesting unpaid pension arrears by Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat.

If it is not demonic wickedness, why should Lagos owe pensions? https://t.co/0e0OSAVn4S

[Okigbo @bslder]

One will think Tinubu did not succeed the APC Buhari government of 8 years.

[Senior Pst Okezie James Atañi. @Onsogbu]

“Reforms hurt, especially when starting from a near-bankrupt state. Unpaid pensions, abandoned projects, bad roads, and food waste were the real costs. The pain was necessary to build something sustainable for the long term.”

Otega Ogra @otegaogra , Senior Special Assistant to the President on Digital Media, responding to a question about fuel subsidy removal.

[Okigbo @bslder]

Ordinary people have bore the brunt of this cruelty on their backs for the last 3 years. It is time to release that yoke and fight your oppressors

[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

Just a reminder, Fuel was N197 per Litre while naira to dollar rate was #460 on the morning of May 29, 2023.

[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

Just a reminder, Fuel was N197 per Litre while naira to dollar rate was #460 on the morning of May 29, 2023.

[gbà wá lọ́wọ́ àgéńdà àti àwọn òpùrọ́ oní blue tick @femmejola]

I suggest that going forward, the @NigBarAssoc should publish a list of selected speakers at 2 months before the conference and give members 14 days to file an objection on solid basis before ratifying the final list. I say this because this has become tiresomely embarrassing.

[Okigbo @bslder]

Atiku running on removing subsidy is a masterstroke. The 2027 election just became competitive and I am here for it. Atiku might end up winning this election

[Okigbo @bslder]

Its a disgrace that after all the suffering ordinary people have suffered in the country on account of removal of subsidy and squandering of the monies by politicians that people here are suggesting that that suffering must continue infinitely. Have you people no decency?

[Oluwatigbemiga Asiwaju Mourinho Fidelix @Rouphages]

Let nobody paint black as white. VDM's invitation to speak on insecurity on the podium of NBA conference is all shades of black and it is not even grey. VDM is not a security expert, he is so brash and unrefined to have merited that kind of honour.

Maybe next year they will take it up a notch and invites Gehgeh as a relationship expert after all he has gehgeh university online. Professionals have really dropped the balls in Nigeria. Standard is all about how loud you can be on the Social media not necessarily how resourceful and professional you are.

This is a shame and all lawyers should just stop making sense out of this nonsense. Your body messed this one up no two ways about it.

[Okigbo @bslder]

Legal Olodo uprising.

I suggest Chief Priest to tutor us on how to make money at next year’s AGC.

Since you people have lost all sense of propriety

[Chinalu Okorie @Chinaluemmanuel]

"Now that the NBA invited VDM, they will invite Odumodublvk and Peller next".

Here is the thing:

If the NBA invites Odumodublvk to join other Panelists on share experiences on Music and opportunities for lawyers (Entertainment Law), would you not attend if you have interest in Entertainment Law?

If the NBA invites Peller to join other Panelists to share his experiences on Social Media and Streaming (Social Media/Entertainment Law), would you not like to attend if you have interest in Social/Entertainment Law?

[Okigbo @bslder]

My tone is maybe I am more disappointed in you: apologies