To my dear brothers and sisters in Osun State, Governor Ademola Adeleke does not struggle with rent, hunger, insecurity and good life.
If you allow him impose TINUBU on you, you will suffer!
A litre of fuel in Libya costs ₦32, while the minimum wage in the country is $208, which is roughly ₦276,000. In Saudi Arabia, a litre of fuel costs approximately ₦823, while the estimated monthly minimum wage is ₦1.4 million. Norway, another oil-producing country, provides its citizens with numerous benefits funded by the proceeds from its oil revenues. In Nigeria, however, the minimum wage is ₦70,000, while a litre of fuel costs between ₦1,300 and ₦1,900 in some places. That minimum wage amounts to a mere $52, a young chap flipping burgers at McDonald's in the US makes more than a Nigerian bank manager. Anyone earning ₦100,000 a month in Nigeria is still struggling to make ends meet and may be closer to the poverty line than their counterparts in these countries. But does the President care? How does he even sleep at night, knowing that millions of Nigerians are struggling to survive in a country blessed with abundant natural resources?
Shettima is attacking Peter Obi for quoting statistics, yet isn’t the APC the one distorting statistics? Aren’t they the ones manipulating the inflation rate? That’s why Nigeria is facing high interest rates at the expense of manufacturers. It’s also why the government is trying to build up the reserves while still having no tangible projects on the ground.
— Rufai Oseni
INEC'S PLAN TO RIG THE 2027 GENERAL ELECTIONS WITH AI
INEC is plotting to rig the 2027 general elections in favour of the ruinous APC by deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI). Suddenly, AI has become an attractive tool for the election management body.
For a nation that has not been able to use AI to solve its intractable security challenges, is it the problem of electing public officers that it can now resolve with AI?
Not even a test run of the efficiency, or otherwise, of AI tools in off-cycle elections? Why did INEC not test-run AI in the Osun polls? Why the hurry to use AI in the forthcoming general elections, just less than 100 days away? Something is amiss.
All men and women of good conscience and the international community must rise to checkmate this diabolical plot by INEC.
A New Nigeria is POssible. We can do it!
Osa Director Esq
National Publicity Secretary
After Admitting To Rigging Three Different Elections, Nigerian Security Agencies Should Explain Why Wike Still Roams Freely And Yet To Be Invited or Arrested as an Electoral Offender https://t.co/K37hoW9UAz
You damaged lives & livelihoods in 12 years. Thousands died due to hunger & insecurity.
You separated families, many won’t get to see their loved ones ever again—because of japa.
You took the orphaned Naira from ₦198 to ₦1800, & managed to stabilize it at ₦1,350.
You took the price of a liter of fuel from ₦87 to ₦1500, & managed to bring it down to ₦1400.
You took a bag of 50kg rice from ₦8,000 to ₦120,000, & managed to bring it down to ₦65,000-75,000 (through massive food importations & import wavers that put our farmers out of business), & you want an award?
You took electricity from(₦16-31) per kWh to ₦225 per kWh & you want a pat on the back?
You want people to clap for you? You are boldly campaigning & asking Nigerians to reelect you?
Abike Dabiri sponsored a bill to suppress press freedom as a lawmaker
She sponsored an Anti-media bill in the past
https://t.co/W6BqUZDsFQ
Daily Trust 13 Dec 2009
Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa reported news and aired views on Nigeria Television Authority before she became a legislator. It is disturbing her that journalism is not fully developed as a profession that the practitioners will be proud of. It is also a cause for concern that journalists are poorly paid and some media employers do not put a premium on the welfare of those who make their medium what it is through their dedication to news reporting. Mrs Dabiri-Edewor felt strongly that she must not pass through the House of Representatives without addressing without doing something about these challenges facing the media. She therefore presented a bill for an Act to provide for the repeal of the Nigerian Press Council Act of 1992 and establish in its place the Nigerian Press and Practice of Journalism Council. When the Bill was read on the floor of the National Assembly, it generated so much controversy and received bashing from various quarters ThisDay newspaper carried a news story titled Concern, Anger Over New Anti-Media Bill. It linked the Bill with the military era and stated that ‘Ten years after the Nigerian mass media survived brutal military dictatorships; a bill is now before the House of Representatives seeking to curtail press freedom and teleguide the practice of journalism in the country.
https://t.co/VAFmcR2eGf
PRESS STATEMENT
APC AND TINUBU'S 30-DAY PETROL DISCOUNT IS TOKENISM AND DECEIT
The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has noted the breaking news by the Federal Government announcing a 30-day discount on petrol through NNPC stations.
According to the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, _"We are offering a discount on petrol dispensed by NNPC Limited for the next 30 days in the first instance, with priority for public transporters nationwide. So, it's not a subsidy. The government is just saying we sell to you at cost."
This is nothing but tokenism and a Greek gift from a government that whimsically removed fuel subsidy without proper consideration, consultation, or cushions for Nigerians.
Nigerians cannot be deceived.
What happens to the millions of Nigerians who lost their jobs and whose businesses collapsed as a result of the callous and poorly planned removal of subsidy? What about those who lost their lives in poorly equipped government hospitals that have now become mortuaries?
It is clear that President Bola Tinubu and the APC government are desperate, and Nigerians must not be deceived. Emilokanomics has failed woefully.
The attempt to reintroduce petrol subsidy through the backdoor is not only mischievous but a sign of a government in free fall, ready to clutch at anything to survive.
Even the bogus promise to dispense discounted fuel at designated NNPC retail outlets is not pragmatic. How many such outlets exist in Nigeria to serve over 200 million Nigerians?
Is this not the recipe for another stampede that could have many more Nigerians trampled to death at the filling stations?
Several questions beg for answers, but the only answer staring Nigerians in the face is that the economy is in a tailspin and at a tipping point. The APC has shown itself glaringly incapable of rescuing the country from imminent collapse.
But hope is on the way.
His Excellency Peter Obi, under the NDC, will put Nigeria back on the right track. A New Nigeria is POssible with Obi.
In a few months, specifically on 16th January, 2027, Nigerians should come out en masse and vote for Peter Obi and all other NDC candidates to vote out the most clueless and rudderless government in the history of Nigeria.
Signed:
Osa Director Esq
National Publicity Secretary
Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC)
For Inquiries: @DirectorOsa
One major difference between life in Nigeria and life in developed economies is something we don’t talk about enough:
ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE CREDIT.
In Canada, car loans can be around 6–7% per annum. Mortgages can be around 4–6%.
In the UK, new mortgages are around 4–5%.
Across the Eurozone, new housing loans are around 3–4%.
In the United States, even with today’s relatively high rates, a 30-year mortgage is around 7%.
Now come to Nigeria.
Our Central Bank policy rate is 23%, while commercial lending rates can run above 30% and, depending on the lender and borrower, considerably higher.
Then there are short-term digital lenders and informal loan sharks whose effective borrowing costs can be brutal.
Think about what this does to a society.
In developed economies, a hardworking person does not necessarily need the entire cash to buy a car, own a home, acquire equipment or build a business.
The financial system allows you to bring tomorrow’s income into today’s productivity.
You buy the house and repay over 15, 20 or 30 years.
You buy the car and repay over several years.
A business buys equipment today and pays for it from the income that equipment generates tomorrow.
That is one of the hidden infrastructures of prosperity: AFFORDABLE, LONG-TERM CREDIT.
In Nigeria, we have almost criminalised not having cash.
If you don’t have ₦50 million today, you may simply not be able to buy the ₦50 million asset, even if you have a stable income capable of paying for it over several years.
And when credit is available, the cost can be so high that the loan itself becomes the problem.
This affects everything.
Home ownership.
Transportation.
Manufacturing.
Agriculture.
Small businesses.
Education.
Technology.
Job creation.
We cannot build a productive middle class entirely on CASH AND CARRY.
A modern economy must allow responsible people to use their FUTURE INCOME to build their PRESENT PRODUCTIVITY.
Nigeria doesn’t only need more jobs.
We need a financial system that makes the income from those jobs actually capable of building wealth.
Affordable credit is not a luxury.
It is economic infrastructure.
Happy Independence Day, Nigeria! 🇳🇬
Today, at THE CITY BUILDERS event organised by pastor Tobore David, and I cannot think of a better conversation to have on a day like this than the future of our people.
66 years after independence, we must begin to ask ourselves, what kind of Nigeria are we leaving behind for the next generation? Why should our young people have to leave the state they love just to find opportunities to succeed?
My desire remains simple, to see a Delta we’d live in, not a Delta we’d be leaving. A Delta where enterprise thrives, talent is nurtured, and prosperity is within reach.
There is so much greatness within our people. We must build an environment that allows it to flourish.
Happy Independence Day to my dear Nigeria and Delta State!
#DCI2027 #ChrisIyovwaye #DeltaCanBeBetter #DeltaIsOK #NigeriaIsOK