Seun

Pro life

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Before you vote, remember that they promised that refineries would work after they removed subsidies

They expended billions on the portharcourt refineries and Co

Ask them what happened to the billions

Remember, they had to rebase and change the calculation methodology before inflation hit 15%, and even with that, ask them why interest rate 27% and inflation 15%

Ask them why you will have close to 50 billion in reserve and they claim they make revenue they met their target, but out of over 200 billion for health, they can only fund 36m

Ask them why, despite all the promises that removal of subsidies will help them fund projects, the Ministry of works budget of over 3 trillion was just funded with 700 billion

Ask them why they can't tell Nigerians that despite announcing subsidy gone in 2023, they paid subsidies until 2024 before they NNPC was forced to tell us the truth

Ask them despite all their postulations. The managed floating of the Nigeria sent the currency to dizzying falls, and they still intervened like they are currently doing .
Ask them as we celebrate the strides of the stockmarket, devaluation has made stock cheap.

Ask them that despite importing food heavily have farmers been able to return to farms because of insecurity

Ask them what happened to the Beta Edu investigation in the humanitarian ministry, till date we haven't seen anything

Ask them why did we spend over 150 billion to buy a new presidential jet when we could barely fund healthcare

[Seun @SilvSean]

@BukkyOA Unrelated: Despite numerous stories of how banks treat their workers, I am usually pertubed seeing people applying to them for jobs.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump just threatened 100% tariffs on ALL Canadian goods.

Not 25%. Not 35%.

One hundred percent.

This is the most severe trade threat ever issued against a Five Eyes ally.

But here is what you are not being told:

Eight days ago, Mark Carney stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and did something no Canadian PM had done in nine years.

He slashed Canada’s 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles to 6.1%.

He signed eight MOUs with Beijing.

He declared progress toward “the new world order.”

Four days ago, at Davos, Carney announced:

“The rules-based order is fading… is not coming back.”

Trump’s response today: “If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.”

Note the word: “Governor.”

Here is what consensus is missing entirely:
USMCA Article 32.10. The “poison pill.”

This clause gives the United States the right to EXPEL Canada from the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement if Ottawa enters a free trade deal with a “non-market country.”

China is that country.

Canada just signed that deal.

Trump is not bluffing. He is triggering the clause that was designed for EXACTLY this scenario.

But go deeper.

In August 2019, Mark Carney stood at Jackson Hole and proposed replacing dollar dominance with a “Synthetic Hegemonic Currency.”

The exact phrase he used: “dampen the domineering influence of the US dollar on global trade.”

This is not a trade dispute.

This is a seven-year thesis being executed by a former Goldman Sachs partner who ran both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.

Carney is not improvising. He is implementing.

The strategic paradox Washington created:
Every action designed to force Canadian compliance is accelerating Canadian defection.

35% tariffs → Carney went to Beijing.

“51st state” threats → Carney signed eight MOUs.

USMCA declared “irrelevant” → Carney slashed EV tariffs.

100% tariff threat → Canada now has nothing left to lose.

The binding mechanism:

When you threaten economic annihilation against an ally, they do not become more compliant.

They become more diversified.

Trump did not push Canada toward China.

Trump DELIVERED Canada to China.

This is the signature failure mode of coercive hegemony.

It works until it does not.

And when it stops working, it accelerates the very outcome it sought to prevent.

49,000 Chinese EVs now enter Canada at 6.1%.

That quota represents a beachhead.

Within five years, over 50% must be priced under C$35,000.

That is BYD. That is Nio. That is CATL batteries.

That is “Fortress North America” with a Chinese door.

Watch CAD/USD.

Watch the USMCA review in July 2026.

Watch whether Mexico follows Canada’s template.

America is building the multipolar world it fears.

One ally at a time.

[Mallam jabir @Mallam_jabeer]

Do you know that many of today’s terror!sts and band!ts were once innocent children, abandoned on the streets because their parents couldn’t cater for their responsibilities?

Let’s stop deceiving ourselves, the root of insecurity in Northern Nigeria is not just poverty, illiteracy or whatsoever, it is irresponsibility and corruption.

Many of today’s criminals were once innocent children, neglected on the streets because their parents couldn’t cater for them and that’s how they end up being recruited into terror!sm.

But who created this poverty? Who stole the money meant for education, healthcare, and jobs? The same politicians who now move around with police escorts and private jets, while millions of children wander hungry and hopeless.

The North is bleeding because the government failed to invest in its people.

Traditional rulers and religious leaders also kept quiet, watching generations waste away. Parents keep giving birth to children they cannot feed, educate, or guide, and the government provides no safety net.

These abandoned children grow up with anger in their hearts and guns in their hands and we dare to ask why terrorism won’t end?

The truth is bitter, our silence, our greed, and our corrupt leaders are creating the next wave of terror!sts if care is not taken.

If something drastic is not done now, if we don’t educate, empower, and plan our families in the next 25 to 30 years, this region will face a disaster beyond imagination because we are not just raising children anymore, we are raising time bombs.

We must act now or we regret our actions.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

MKO ran for president in 1993.
He won fair and square, but he was denied.
He got locked up, accused of treason and died (?murdered) in jail.

Today 32years after his death,
The criminal traitorous military monster that annulled the 1993 elections, denied over 100million Nigerians their rightful leader, unleashed security forces killing over 100nigerians in the protests, an animal who should be languishing in jail if Nigeria was a sane country, he is today launching a worthless book and is being hailed as a “hero” and an “inspiration”.

How a despicable treasonous traitor who truncated a democracy and deprived a duly elected leader of his rightful office, is now rebranded as a some kind of a hero by the political establishment today tells you everything you need to know about this geographical skit called Nigeria.

A country with leaders that have zero honour, zero virtue, and zero values.
What a shame. What a disgrace.

[Mayowa A. Balogun @Sweeegu]

For context, this is over $13m.

Number One Observatory Circle (US VPs residence) was built in 1893 for the equivalent of $693,000 today.

It was renovated in 2021 for Kamala Harris at the cost of $3.8m

In fact, based on all the numbers I could pull up, the total value of renovations done since it became the official VP residence since 1976 is not up to $13m (even accounting for inflation).

[Ridwan Oke @RidwanuLlah]

On SHARIAH LAW and Applicability in the South West:

1. Section 277 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) is quite clear on the extent of applicability of shariah Law in Nigeria. It is only limited to Islamic Personal Law which includes Marriage, inheritance, custody, divorce and other personal affairs.

2. States of the Federation are allowed to determine their Criminal Law and Northern states using that blank cheque have incorporated certain aspects of Shariah into their criminal Laws. That is, they expanded the applicability by having the house of assembly legislate it and it got the needed assent from the Governor. It went through a complete legislative process and thus, it is the criminal law of such States.

3. It is within the rights of Muslims in the South West to have their personal affairs governed by shariah law. These aspects only have to do with Muslims and MUST be Muslims ALONE.

4. It is also within the rights of Southern States to choose to incorporate aspects of shariah law into their criminal system BUT ONLY if the laws have passed through requisite full legislative process and Governors’ assent. So, determinant of having such is if members of the house of assembly sponsors a bill in this regard and it is passed and assented to.

5. However, the dynamics in the North is not the same in the South. The shariah law (Criminal aspect) as being applied in the North is only applicable mostly to the downtrodden. The rich still get away with everything which is the opposite of Shariah. In the south, how do you determine those who are Muslims when a good number of Christians have Muslim names as their first names? How do you explain cutting the hands of petty thieves when politicians are stealing billions and getting away with it? How do you NOT extend it to non Muslims if it’s already passed as criminal laws of the State? Selective applicability? Even a good number of Muslims don’t want it.

6. As Muslims, the number one way of preaching any aspect of Islam as ordained by the Prophet himself is through your behavior and actions. Islamic Banking is prominent now because it was never bastardized. The way shariah law is being practiced in the North, no reasonable non Muslim will want to associate with it. In fact, Muslims are also suspicious. Hisbah destroys properties and major in sycophancy and even try to extend the law to non Muslims. IT’S A SLIPPERY SLOPE, hence, you can’t say the fear being displayed by Christians and some Muslims are not valid. It was on this same App that some of you argued that there’s no room for Isese in Ilorin but you are quick to point out where Muslims are prevented from practicing their religion in Christian dominated spaces.

7. To the CHRISTIAN BRETHREN, I know you expect Muslims to see from your point of view and how your freedom is likely to be jeopardized but how do you expect them to see your point when their women had to go to court to be able to wear an hijab that doesn’t affect you in anyway? Before Muslims were allowed to wear hijab for Call to Bar, Amasa Firdaous had to forfeit her Call to Bar for months and only got called through the order of a court. So many of you argued against a Muslim woman wearing Hijab on her own HEAD. How do you preach Freedom of Religion when you don’t allow Muslims to practice their beliefs freely? How do you explain Muslim kids attending SECULAR schools, pay ridiculous fees and they come home singing “Merry Christmas” because they incorporated it into their teachings and made them sing and prepare for Christmas carol despite claiming “SECULAR“ without the consent of their Parents?

8. Both parties have a good history of victimizing each other. Both Religions are always trying to “outsmart” each other so I am not surprised at the hypocrisy. I’m just surprised that both parties thinks their hypocrisy is not loud. Both religions preaches tolerance but often do the direct opposite.

[Seun @SilvSean]

@instablog9ja Unfortunately she doesn't realize that 3rd class graduates in Demography and Social Statistics are making waves in the NGO and INGO world. Volunteer and apply the things you learned from the course. Trust me, you'll go beyond far.

[Ademola Lookman @Alookman_]

God is great, Naija worldwide 🌎 🦅

[Toyyib Adewale Adelodun @taadelodun]

December 2021 - I bought 1 crate of eggs N1,900 in Lagos

November 2024- I am hearing the same crate of eggs is N6,000.

What is the plan of our government to tame this inflation?

Children are missing out on nutritious food🥺🙏

[Seun @SilvSean]

What a funny man. Now he understands 😀

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

He now agrees with me the economy is really bad

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

Bread: N1700
Goat leg: N13,000
Crate of egg: N6000
A tuber of yam: N8000
A kilo of Ice-fish N3,800
A kilo of chicken: N5,500
A Kilo of Turkey: N8,500
Carton of indomie: N9000
Hungry man size: N13,000
Bournvita big size: N12,000
Bag of rice 50kg: N107,000
Custard family size: N9,800
1 liter Vegetable Oil: N4,500
5 liter Vegetable Oil: N17,500
Toothpaste Euthymol: N6000
Band A (400 units): N100,000
Peak milk family size: N35,000
Full tank at N1200/liter: N90,000
Cow meat for a pot of soup: N15,000

Naira to the Dollar is N1750. It is hard for a family to manage N1 million in Bola Tinubu’s Economy. Do not allow anyone to gaslight you.

1. Widen the tax net. ✅️
2. Reduce their purchasing power. ✅️
3. And further slow down the economy. ✅️

[blaze tee @brightozor4]

Where are we heading to in Nigeria #BaltasarEngonga

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

CLAIM ONE: Tinubu said Nigeria attracted foreign direct investments (FDI) worth more than $30 billion in 2023 due to his economic policies.
“The economy is undergoing the necessary reforms and retooling to serve us better and more sustainably,” the president said.
“If we do not correct the fiscal misalignments that led to the current economic downturn, our country will face an uncertain future and the peril of unimaginable consequences.
“Thanks to the reforms, our country attracted foreign direct investments worth more than $30 billion in the last year.”
FDI is the establishment of a company or business in a country by a foreign investor.
VERIFICATION
On February 17, 2024, Doris Uzoka-Anite, minister of industry, trade and investment, said the country obtained about $30 billion in investment commitments from various investors.
Uzoka-Anite said the commitments will be redeemed within five to eight years.
Also, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) usually releases capital importation reports, which include details on foreign direct investment inflows that Nigeria attracts every quarter.
The NBS capital importation report categorises capital inflows into three main types: foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign portfolio investment (FPI), and other investments.
According to data obtained from NBS, between Q2 — when Tinubu’s administration began — and Q1 of 2024, Nigeria attracted a total of $448.95 million in foreign direct investment (FDI).
In the same period, foreign portfolio investments — which involve investments in financial assets such as stocks and bonds — amounted to $2.58 billion.
Additionally, other investments, such as loans, trade credits, and other capital inflows totaled $3.12 billion.
Further analysis by TheCable showed that in Q2 2023, Nigeria recorded $1.03 billion in foreign inflows, which includes FDI, portfolio investments, and other investments.
The figure dropped to $654.65 million in Q3 2023 but rose to $1.09 billion in Q4.
However, by Q1 2024, total capital inflow surged to $3.38 billion.
In total, Nigeria attracted $6.14 billion in foreign inflows between Q2 2023 and Q1 2024.
VERDICT
Based on data from the NBS, Tinubu’s claim that the country attracted more than $30 billion in foreign direct investment in 2023 is incorrect.

[𝐑𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 🌎 @MissRozapepper]

This small girl will kpai this egbon 😂

Location: Iwo Road, Ibadan.

[Bros Iwi @TooSiQ]

1 hour of work in the UK = £11.44 (1144 Pence)

1 hour of work in Nigeria (70,000 ÷ (8 hours × 20 days) = N437.5

Average price of petrol in UK = 145.79 Pence.
Therefore, an hour's wage in the UK will fetch you (1144 ÷ 145.79) = 7.8 litres of petrol.

An hours wage in Nigeria fetches you (437.5 ÷ 770) = 0.57 litres.

To be able to afford the 7.8 litres as your peer in the UK, you have to work for 13.7 hours.

You have to work thirteen times as hard to afford the same commodity. Remember, time is something you never get back.

But hey! Peter Obi will never be president...

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

The Verdict

Tinubu: No Place to Hide!

By Olusegun Adeniyi

August 29, 2024

To say that the administration of President Bola Tinubu is enmeshed in a crisis of credibility is to put the situation mildly. For a man who got to office with a statistically narrow mandate of 37 percent of total votes cast, many expected Tinubu to rise above himself in order to establish an enduring legacy. That expectation now appears misplaced. Even more worrisome is that despite being in a ditch, the president and his handlers continue to dig by displaying a behaviour the Yoruba would describe as “tani o mu mi”. As I once explained on this page, it is the kind of impunity that carries a certain sense of hubris, not only for the perpetrator(s) but also for the larger society.

It all began with a report in TheCable, which supplied the proof for what most already suspected or knew: The federal government has been spending trillions of Naira to pay for fuel subsidy even when officials continue to parrot the presidential deceit that “subsidy is gone.” Then, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar released a scathing statement that Nigeria “has been effectively mortgaged to President Bola Tinubu, his family, and associates,” citing how the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) allegedly put its retail arm under the control of OVH, which he claimed (it has been disputed by NNPC Ltd) is controlled by Wale Tinubu’s Oando.

These issues were still playing out when Nigerians got to know that a new presidential jet had been surreptitiously purchased by a government that has been doubling down on policies that make life difficult for the ordinary Nigerian. “The new plane, bought far below the market price, saves Nigeria huge maintenance and fuel costs, running into millions of dollars yearly,” was all the explanation from the villa, even when Nigerians still don’t know the cost of this plane and how it was acquired. And we probably would not have been informed about it had the Chinese firm, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co Limited, not impounded three presidential aircraft in Paris, following the order of a French court on their dispute with Ogun State. It was the court that included one ACJ330-200, 5N-FGA (msn 1053), “recently bought from AMAC Corporate Jet (AMK, Zurich) and still stationed at Basel” while authorising the bailiffs “to go any place where the aircraft registered 5N-FGU, 5N-FGT and 5N-FGA are located and seize them.”

That was how Nigerians got to know that we have a new presidential jet. The aircraft, we would later learn, was released as an act of benevolence to our president by the Chinese company so that it would not affect his travel plans, including to China next week for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit. Incidentally, I am currently in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China for the 2024 Media Cooperation Forum on Belt and Road where I was among the speakers yesterday on the theme, ‘Enhancing media cooperation for common development.’ I will also be attending the 3rd Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) Council meeting today before heading back home on Sunday.

In his column last Sunday explaining how Tinubu’s fuel subsidy reform efforts unravelled, Waziri Adio concluded that for the administration, “an open acknowledgment” that subsidy is still very much with us “is a necessary starting point, for you cannot address what you haven’t even accepted exists or is a problem.” And “after coming clean, the government needs to level up with Nigerians about how it plans to manage the subsidy in a transparent and accountable way.” But that is precisely where the problem lies: This president is exhibiting a contempt for transparency and accountability in the conduct of government business. We saw that with the award of the contract for the multi trillion Naira Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road project and the manner several budgets are running concurrently.

[Nse @_nseobong]

This feels like Manchester United again, tears in my eyes, I love this club so much.

Club football is so back.

[Seun @SilvSean]

@elonmusk Was Trump ever on X? He was on Twitter.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

I debated long and hard whether to do this publicly, but I think a message needs to be sent to a group of external interests working in tandem with the internal interests described in the quoted tweet to counteract the interests of half a billion West Africans. A message that at whatever level we exist, we take our destiny seriously and we are not to be trifled with.

Last week, I received an N800,000 offer from an international NGO called Dialogue Earth (formerly known as China Dialogue Trust) to write an article essentially saying that Dangote Refinery is terrible for the environment because something something "Environmental Concerns," something something "Climate Change," something something "Energy Transition Policy," something something "COP 28."

The (unstated but clearly implied) thrust of the brief was for a prominent local voice to put their name on an article that is an argument or a premise for the the Nigerian government to kill the refinery based on its "energy transition commitments" and "environmental policy." This conclusion wasn't immediately apparent when they reached out to me, but I suspected where it was heading, and I quickly accepted the offer so that I could see the brief and obtain hard evidence. I've attached screenshots from the brief below.

Basically, this London-based NGO is headed by Sam Geall, an Oxford professor and is funded by several American intelligence fronts such as Ford Foundation and ClimateWorks (which is blacklisted in India for funding organisations working against India's national interest). For whatever reason, it is now quietly mobilising a resistance campaign against what it describes as "Nigeria's first refinery." Apparently, the status quo of Africa's largest oil producer having no functioning oil refinery to beneficiate its own oil was not a problem for Dialogue Earth and the American CIA fronts who fund it.

The human poverty caused by exporting this raw material and importing refined fuel was not bad for the environment. Also, the fact of European refiners regularly blending West African fuel cargoes with toxic waste and sulphur content 200 times the European legal limit (leading to asthma, bronchitis and eye infections in West Africa) was also not bad for the environment. But Nigeria having a refinery that will wean West Africa off import dependency on those European refiners (and allow West Africa control the sulphur content of its own fuels) is where Dialogue Earth and its funders draw the line. That one is bad for the environment, and David Hundeyin should write an article calling for the refinery to be shut down or limited.

I'm putting this out there publicly so that nobody will henceforth use the term "conspiracy theory" when it is pointed out for the umpteenth time, that there are American and European state and private interests that are heavily invested in keeping Africa exactly as poor as it is, and that they regularly push levers most of us do not even know exist, to make sure that this status quo is protected. These people believe that Africans should not exist or have nice things in this world. Apparently, the sole purpose of our existence is to enhance their experience of the planet and all that it has to offer.

It is because of them that I have to make a public spectacle out of this, even though I know that doing this is probably going to cost someone their job. The message needs to be passed that as poor as we are, you cannot convince us to campaign for the elongation of our own poverty by commissioning $500 hack jobs in the hope that we will be greedy enough to only see the money and ignore the bigger picture of what we can clearly see you trying to do.

I will reiterate something I have said multiple times - I am not a believer in the religious faith called Climate Change/Saving The Environment. I care exactly as much about the environment as do the rich white men who destroyed it to begin with. I firmly believe that if what it takes for Africa to industrialise is for it to burn so much fossil fuel that snow stops falling in Wisconsin and it starts raining concentrated sulphuric acid in Doncaster, it is not too big a price for Europe and North America to pay - it is certainly not bigger than the price Africa had to pay for Europe and North America to develop.

It is and will continue to be 100% OUR prerogative to determine what to do with our hydrocarbons. It is not the rich white men hiding behind these "Climate Advocacy NGOs" who will tell us what to do with our energy reserves, and by what means we are allowed to escape the poverty that they engineered for us.

I might not be a fan of Aliko Dangote or his monopolistic business practices - as is well known - but I'm also smart enough to know when rich white men in DC, Houston, Rotterdam and London and trying to use me as a marionette in their 400 year-old coloniser games. If you are reading this and you are one of the rich white men whose economic interests are threatened by Nigeria refining its own oil, you should come out and fight Aliko Dangote by yourself.

Or at least go find a much stupider African to do your dirty job - there's plenty of those.

It will never be me.