@renoomokri@_dinomelaye The distinction between ₦20,000 per month and ₦20,000 per year is important. If the monthly figure is ₦20,000, that amounts to ₦240,000 annually, excluding tuition payments made directly to institutions.
Dear Distinguished Senator @_dinomelaye,
Thank you for your feedback. However, please note that the lowest-paid student on the NELFUND Student Loan Scheme receives ₦20,000 a MONTH, not ₦20,000 a YEAR, as you alleged in this video. In a year, the minimum that students on the program get is ₦240,000. This amount is for student upkeep, which is separate from the tuition paid directly to the school. And most of the over 1 million recipients are from Northern Nigeria, where the average annual university tuition is ₦100,000.
Please find attached an actual screenshot of a monthly NELFUND alert paid to a student admitted to the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, where his total annual school fees are ₦84,000. Notice that it was paid in the current month of September 2026. I will send you his name and contact details privately so you can reach him to verify the information.
The NELFUND Student Loan Program is a lifesaver for Nigerian students. It has enabled over a million students to enrol at universities who otherwise would not have been able to afford it.
And not only students benefit. Under Tinubu, there has been no nationwide ASUU strike because the education sector is now well-funded and lecturers earn a living wage. This is the first time since ASUU was founded that we have not had a national strike under an administration, civil or military.
Perhaps, as patriotic citizens who love Nigeria and want the best for her, we can avoid undermining this lofty idea by not politicising it.
Thanks again, and may God bless you.
Bemigho Reno Omokri
Happening now… The North Central Town Hall is taking place at the Ta’al Conference Hotel, Lafia, Nasarawa State. We are gathering to set the agenda for a better and prosperous Nigeria in 2027.
If you are in Nasarawa, you can still make it there. #ResetNigeria
Thank you, our good people in Nasarawa, for hosting the APM North Central Town Hall Meeting today. We have taken note of all issues highlighted during the meeting and we will ensure that our manifesto reflects the feedback we receive from each zone.
The rate at which Hon. Balarabe Akinwumi @BalaAkinwumi of the ADC is moving across Akure Federal Constituency deserves serious attention. He has practically taken over everywhere, with his presence becoming increasingly visible across the constituency. At this point, it is beginning to look less like one party’s candidate and more like a political movement that cuts across party lines. It almost feels as though the other parties are campaigning for him.
1 liter of fuel in Iran: ₦38.
1 liter of fuel in Libya: ₦32.
1 liter of fuel in Saudi: ₦823.
1 liter of fuel in Nigeria: ₦1,400.
Minimum wage in Iran: ₦165,000.
Minimum wage in Libya: ₦210,000.
Minimum wage in Saudi: ₦1.4 million.
Minimum wage in Nigeria: ₦70,000.
Min. wage in Iran will buy 4,342 liters.
Min. wage in Libya will buy 6,562 liters.
Min. wage in Saudi will buy 1700 liters.
Min. wage in Nigeria will buy 46 liters.
The four are oil producing nations. Pass it on!!!
My last trip to the UK earlier this year was with Kenya Airways, and honestly, it was a beautiful experience.
The funny part is this: Nigeria is proudly called the “Giant of Africa” yet we are a giant that doesn’t even have a functioning national airline to truly call our own, a giant still struggling with basic infrastructure and a giant where the minimum wage remains just ₦70,000.
A giant that its people still lives on barely $1 a day.
Sometimes, the contrast is painful. So sad. 💔🇳🇬
Dear Your Excellency Monday Okpebholo, The Governor of Edo State.
PLEASE LET US COMPARE PURCHASING POWER, NOT JUST THE PRICE OF PETROL.
I write in response to your recent comment that Nigerians should appreciate the comparatively lower price of petrol because, during your recent visit to London, you found that petrol costs over ₦3,000 per litre after conversion.
Yes, Your Excellency, the price of petrol in the United Kingdom may indeed translate to more than ₦3,000 per litre. Recent UK data put the average price of unleaded petrol at around £1.72–£1.74 per litre.
But respectfully, the price of a commodity cannot be meaningfully compared without also comparing the income of the person buying that commodity.
That is the part of the comparison that deserves attention.
As of April 2026, the Minimum Wage for workers in the UK is £12.71 per hour.
Therefore, a worker earning the statutory minimum rate and working eight hours would earn approximately £101.68 in gross wages in one working day.
At a petrol price of approximately £1.72 per litre, that day’s gross minimum-wage earnings would theoretically purchase about 59 litres of petrol, before deductions and other expenses.
That is enough to fill many ordinary car fuel tanks.
Now let us come back home.
Nigeria’s federal minimum wage is ₦70,000 per month.
So, Your Excellency, the more important question is not simply: How much is petrol in London? The most important question is:
How many hours does an ordinary worker have to work to buy enough petrol to fill his or her vehicle?
That is the comparison Nigerians need.
A Nigerian worker earning ₦70,000 a month does not earn ₦70,000 every day. That ₦70,000 must cover food, rent, electricity, transportation, school fees, healthcare and other basic needs throughout the month.
A British worker earning the statutory minimum wage is operating within an entirely different wage structure.
Therefore, telling Nigerians that petrol is over ₦3,000 per litre in London without explaining the corresponding difference in wages does not provide the complete economic picture.
Your Excellency, Nigerians are not merely complaining because petrol is expensive. They are complaining because their income has not kept pace with the cost of living.
If we want to compare Nigeria with the UK, then let us compare everything:
Petrol prices; Minimum wages; Average working hours; Purchasing power; Cost of food; Electricity; Transportation; Housing; Healthcare; and The amount of income left after meeting basic needs.
That would give Nigerians a much more meaningful picture than simply converting the price of one litre of petrol into naira.
Your Excellency, nobody expects petrol in Nigeria to cost the same as petrol in London. Nigeria has its own economic realities, including exchange-rate pressures, crude-oil prices, refining costs, taxation and other factors.
But Nigerians deserve an economic argument that considers income as well as expenditure.
If a litre of petrol costs more in London but a minimum-wage worker can earn the equivalent of the cost of that litre in a fraction of an hour, while a Nigerian worker earning ₦70,000 monthly struggles to meet basic household expenses, then simply saying “fuel is more expensive in London” does not adequately explain which worker is actually under greater financial pressure.
Your Excellency, please compare purchasing power, not just pump prices.
That is the conversation Nigerians are asking for.
Respectfully,
Oloye TD Esq.
I can bet on it and put my money on the line: President Tinubu is afraid of Wike’s political influence. When the chips are down, I believe he will choose to go with Wike rather than side with the 30 APC governors.
N189 per litre of fuel was bad in Goodluck Jonathan's Government but N1400 a litre of fuel is very much okay in President Tinubu's Government. Hypocrisy everywhere.
Some Men are evill💔💔A man had been married to his wife for about nine years without a child. Trusting her husband, the woman agreed that they should jointly acquire properties to secure their future.
She took a cooperative loan and gave the money to her husband. They bought three parcels of land, and each time, the husband told her they would register the properties in names associated with faith. As members of RCCG, she trusted him completely.
Years later, she discovered the shocking truth: the names on the three properties were actually the names of the three children her husband had secretly fathered with another woman.
The properties she had helped finance were quietly being secured for another family.
Imagine taking loans, making sacrifices and building what you thought was your marital future, only to discover that your husband had been planning a future for another woman and her children.
What a painful betrayal💔💔😭😭
Peter Obi played himself to Golgotha…Who actually convinced Peter to move to NDC? I want to know the people.
Staying back in Labour Party or ADC would have been the best decision for him.
He has now lost the spark and Aura.