400 level first semester result showed that I dropped to second class lower and I didn't want that.
So I buckled up and read so much. Ended up graduating with second class upper 🎉
Bro I am not against your political ambition but there is something you did fre weeks ago that baffled me.
Wike said they diverted Atiku's vote and prevented him from winning in River State and gave some his votes to Peter Obi of which we know he was lying and was just trying to play down the popularity of Peter Obi in Rivers and discard the clear evidence that Peter Obi won Rivers state.
Instead of you to condemn Nyesome wike for diverting people's mandate and preventing the will of the people, you focused your attacks on Peter Obi and calling him a fraud.
Bro the way I am seeing you, you might be worse than Tinubu if you get to the sit of power.
I wish you Goodluck anyway.
Nigeria has passed through its own Red Sea, Prosperity is Next--President Tinubu
TEXT OF INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT BOLA AHMED TINUBU, WITH THE THEME, FROM REFORMS TO PROSPERITY
My fellow Nigerians,
Sixty-six years ago today, our flag was raised, for the first time, over a free and sovereign nation. Since then, we have journeyed together as one nation, bound by our collective trust in the great promise of Nigeria: that a country of our size, our bountiful resources, our cultural diversity and, above all, our extraordinary people can build a giant in Africa; that in this blessed and fertile land we can build a united, strong and prosperous nation; a land of regional authority and global consequence.
Our journey has not always been easy. In truth, it has generally been too hard for too many. We have known moments of great hope and periods of profound disappointment. We have endured war, military rule, economic crises, insecurity and political upheaval. Yet through it all, Nigeria, with the indomitable spirit of its people, has endured.
It has endured through the efforts of the farmer who rises before dawn to work his land. The trader who opens her shop each morning, hopeful for a productive day. The teacher who believes in the children entrusted to her care and the young entrepreneur who refuses to surrender ambition to circumstance. We are grateful for the men and women of our Armed Forces and security services who place themselves in harm's way so that the rest of us may live in peace.
Through every difficulty, generations of Nigerians have continued to believe in one thing: that this country of ours will be better.
This faith, which sustains us all, is the inheritance of independence. Our founding fathers did not struggle merely for a flag, an anthem or a place among the nations of the world. Independence carried a larger promise: that Nigerians would have the freedom to shape their own destiny and build a nation capable of providing opportunity, dignity and a better life for its people. Sixty-six years later, Almighty God has made it our responsibility to deliver that promise.
Today, as we celebrate our independence, we must speak honestly about the journey so far, the choices we made, and the country we are determined to build from here.
For too long, the promise of Nigeria was undermined by choices that postponed difficult decisions and allowed deep economic distortions to grow.
By 2023, poverty was rising, and hope was nearly gone. The country's situation was darker than ever. We had no choice but to act.
Nigeria was like a sick patient who receives the terrible news that he has cancer. His doctor explains that the treatment will be difficult and painful, but that it offers a strong prospect of recovery. The patient has a choice. He can begin treatment, endure its discomfort and fight the disease. Or he can ask only for morphine, dull the pain and leave the cancer to spread.
For too long, Nigeria's leaders chose morphine while praying for a miracle that never came.
They focused on symptoms while allowing the disease to take hold deep within the fabric of our society. We spent enormous sums sustaining inefficient arrangements that were never intended to last. We hid from difficult truths and passed the consequences from one generation to the next.
When this Administration assumed office, we resolved to do things differently. We chose to excise the cancer. The reforms that followed were difficult. The side effects were real. Yet, we must never confuse the medicine with the disease.
Our reforms did not create the weaknesses in our economy. They confronted them. Now, as certain influential but regressive voices would have us abandon the treatment and return ourselves to the abuse of addictive subsidies, we must resist their siren song. We must remember why we began this journey and how far we have already come.
Three and a half years later, the evidence that Nigeria's economic outlook has improved is undeniable. Our economy has grown by over 4 per cent this year. Both oil and non-oil sectors have contributed to the renewed period of stable growth.
Oil theft is down. Inflation has fallen substantially from its peak. Our foreign reserves have been rebuilt, our foreign exchange market has stabilised, and in 2025 this country recorded its highest revenue from non-oil exports in its history, exceeding $6 billion. This is real money being made by real Nigerian businesses.
These are not idle claims. International observers, journalists, NGOs and multilateral institutions can see the change. Each has concluded that our reforms have strengthened Nigeria's economic stability and resilience. The private sector has long since delivered its verdict, and foreign direct investment continues to rise each year.
My fellow Nigerians, we have reached a turning point.
The emergency treatment is over. The foundation has been repaired. The central economic task before us has changed. For three years, our overriding purpose was to correct our nation's course.
Now, our purpose is simple: shared and widespread prosperity.
When I speak of prosperity, I do not speak merely of a larger economy, abstract numbers or better statistics. I mean something much more personal.
I mean a Nigeria in which the farmer can cultivate his land safely, produce more at lower cost, and earn a decent return for his labour. A Nigeria in which factories have reliable power, businesses can obtain credit, and young people can find productive work. A Nigeria in which food and transportation are affordable, education is within reach, and hard-working families can look towards the future with confidence.
This is the promise we must now fulfil.
Our priority is to bring down the cost of living. We will achieve this by lowering the cost of producing and moving the things Nigerians consume.
We have the land and people to feed ourselves. My government is therefore focused on expanding mechanised irrigation and dry-season farming, improving access to seeds and fertiliser, holistically increasing mechanisation, and investing in storage and transportation. We are building and completing the roads, railways and ports that connect farms and factories to markets.
Our logic is simple. When a farmer produces more cheaply, when fewer crops are lost between the farm and the market, when a manufacturer spends less on electricity, when a truck reaches its destination faster, and when the business environment fosters fair competition, all those savings will ultimately find their way into the price of goods in the market.
But prosperity requires more than cheaper goods. It requires productive work.
Nigeria is a young country. Millions of young Nigerians enter adulthood every year with talent, energy and ambition. Our responsibility is to ensure that this great demographic strength becomes an engine of production rather than a source of despair.
We are therefore placing jobs, enterprise, and industrial growth at the heart of our government's policies.
We will use our gas to power new industries. We will support businesses that work to bring factories back to life in our great industrial centres. We will expand digital connectivity into communities that have waited too long to participate in the modern economy. We will invest in the skills employers demand and support Nigerian businesses with the infrastructure and finance they need to grow.
I want to see more Nigerians making things. I want to see more Nigerian farms feeding our cities and supplying our factories. I want to see Nigerian businesses selling Nigerian goods to the whole world. I want young Nigerians building unicorns and creating opportunities for others here at home.
I am also conscious that millions of our fellow citizens cannot wait for tomorrow. Some Nigerian families still struggle today for the next meal, the next school fee, the next medical bill, or simply enough money to get to work. Their circumstances did not begin with the reforms of the last three years. Their struggle is the accumulated consequence of decades of low productivity, inadequate infrastructure, insufficient opportunity and institutions that too often failed those who needed them most.
We cannot erase in four years what accumulated over generations. But we can change its course. We can build an economy that steadily lifts people out of poverty while ensuring that those who remain vulnerable are not abandoned along the way.
That is why we are strengthening direct support for the poorest households and improving the National Social Register so that assistance reaches those who genuinely need it.
It is why the Nigerian Education Loan Fund is ensuring that the child of a low-income family need not surrender the dream of higher education simply because his parents cannot afford the fees.
It is why CREDICORP is giving working Nigerians access to consumer credit, allowing people to acquire vehicles, solar systems, digital devices and other essential assets without first having to accumulate years of savings.
That is why, working with our states and local governments, we will continue to strengthen primary healthcare, basic education, and the essential public services poorer Nigerians depend on most. Since 2023, we have paid salaries and pensions on time and in full. We have reformed the national pension program to benefit retirees and the vulnerable.
These programmes are not substitutes for prosperity. They are a bridge to aid our nation's citizens on their path towards it. Our objective is not to manage poverty more efficiently.
We will defeat it.
It will take time. It will require discipline. It will require sustained growth year after year and the creation of millions of productive opportunities across our country.
But for the first time in decades, we embark on this task from a position of strength; with an economy whose fundamental direction has been corrected. We confronted the difficult choices we faced and have laid the foundations for lasting prosperity. Rather than fail the promise of a better future for our children, the time has come for us to build that future.
The age of reform has done its work. Now begins the age of prosperity. An age in which the promise of this great nation must finally become the lived experience of Nigerians from all walks of life.
We have travelled through difficult years together. We have made hard decisions together. And now, still together, we must build the country those decisions have made possible.
I believe deeply in what lies ahead.
I believe in the millions of ordinary men and women whose work, courage and determination have always been the true strength of our country. The road ahead will still demand much from us. But we now travel it with firm footing, a clear direction, and renewed hope in our collective future.
Nigeria has corrected its course. We have passed through our own Red Sea. This is not the time to look back. Let us go forward together, with faith in ourselves, faith in our country, and faith that the sacrifices we have made will yield their reward.
The Promised Land before us is a Nigeria of abundance and opportunity; a nation where prosperity is broadly shared, where every child can dream beyond the circumstances of his birth, and where our country's immense promise is finally reflected in the lives of our people.
Our destination is in sight. Our foundations are strong. Our direction is clear. So let us go forward. No looking back.
Happy Independence Day, my fellow Nigerians. God bless you all, and God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR
President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
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Run targeted ads on Pornhub & xnxx, I don't care.
This is what your lived reality has been under APC. Your life, fizzled.
You are living it but sometimes you need someone to shove it in your face.
THE RENEWED HOPE AGENDA IS WORKING
Fellow Nigerians,
Our economy grew by 4.43% in the second quarter of 2026, up from 4.23% in the same period last year.
Growth was recorded across agriculture, manufacturing, oil and gas, and services, which now make the largest contribution to our GDP.
In nominal terms, our GDP reached ₦119.27 trillion, up 18.43% from ₦100.7 trillion in the same period last year.
These numbers matter because they show where our economy is going after three years of difficult but necessary reforms.
At some point in your adult life, there are certain things that become too embarrassing to indulge in, and at the top of that list is situationships.
It is understandable if someone in their early twenties entertains it. They simply don’t know any better. But how are you in your late twenties, or even worse, your thirties, willingly accepting a situationship?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking someone you’ve been consistently talking to define what they want with you—or to move along. You are too grown to be indulging in endless small talk.
You like someone. You assume they like you back. You’re both having sex, going out, and spending time together. But whenever they post someone else with a flirty caption, or you see them with another person, your chest starts hurting. Yet you can’t question them because there is absolutely nothing defined between both of you. You can’t even get openly jealous because it feels like you have no right to.
Do you see what you’re doing to yourself?
A lot of you are in situationships simply because of assumptions. Because they talk to you every day, take you out, and are intimate with you, you’ve already concluded that they’re your partner.
Then one day, you’ll ask them about someone else, and they’ll dribble you with plenty of logic that, when translated, simply means, “But we’re not in a relationship. Why are you overreacting?”
And you know what? They’ll be right.
Until they explicitly ask you to be their boyfriend or girlfriend, both of you are just talking. Whether you’re having sex or not is irrelevant.
You are hurting yourself because you think asking for clarity is desperation.
Ask that uncomfortable question today.
brother when you're with a woman, enjoy her. laugh, talk but stop playing a future with her in your head.
she's not your wife, she's not the one. she's just the girl you're with right now. stay present. men fall in love with potential. women fall in love with opportunity. that's modern dating. the girl you're imagining forever with today might be gone in 6 months not cos you failed but because people change. the moment you lock her into your future, you risk losing yourself.
enjoy her while she's there. if she stays, she stays. if she leaves, you're still standing. that's power.
It’s been a wonderful 11 months.❤️ I have no words literally. The bond we have was so intense that I couldn’t hold back my tears either . I wanna thank God for his mercy and guidance and protection throughout this journey. I wanna specially thank the owner of the school, my fellow colleagues and you all that have been watching us from the very beginning ❤️.We love you. And to my students (everyone in the school) I love you guys so much, thank you for having me as your master and I know you all have a bright future ahead. This is me signing out for the final time ❤️🤧
Our politicians don’t even know the damage they have done to our generation.
Under the watch of President Buhari, see the corruption of the person tasked to uphold the constitution. When President Tinubu leaves too, we will uncover another rot.
Under President Ebele Jonathan we uncovered too.
It’s a terrible cycle of self destruction from kleptomaniacs unfit to lead this great country.
The country can’t build anything tangible, we rely on what the world is moving away from because everyone that is smart always finds a way to leave this country.
Nigeria kills dreams.
Graduates are being advised to do petty businesses to survive because no jobs.
The people like us that remain, our banks will tell us Interest rate is 30% to start business. Why will we invest in a credit facility in the country that clearly doesn’t want your success?
Families are split into different countries abroad because of how they have ruined the country.
Friends that should come together and create great brands are split because everyone has gone to separate countries abroad to hustle.
This is not real life mahn. I totally hate the last two generations of politicians this country has produced. They are a failure and traitors of this country.
The last thing i am worried about in this life is heartbreak i am so immuned to it.
I cannot ever be in such settings again, cos my mind is already programmed for women disappointment which is inevitable in this generation.
Besides i don't even expect much from that gender.
I’m at a point in my life where as long as I know I did right by you, I’m okay with walking away when something no longer works. I used to hold on longer than I should’ve because I cared, because of history, or because I wanted things to work out. But I’ve learned you can’t keep carrying relationships by yourself. If I showed up, kept it real, and did my part, that’s enough for me. Whether it’s family, friends, whoever, I don’t force what’s no longer mutual. I just leave it where it’s at and keep moving.
Omo.. I’m tired
You will open up to someone, before you know it, y’all are not talking again
Next month, you’re opening up to another person, and after some days, no more conversations, total strangers again
And you’re suppose to do that until you meet your person.. lol, it’s not surprising people settle or accept rubbish
As someone who prioritizes self-respect and sense of self, please, for the love of God — cut them off completely.
Feel free to crash out and cry your eyes out, but do not attempt to rekindle this friendship in the slightest.
You'll find your own people sooner or later.