@Ogegottweets@Nnewi300@thegreatdeejah Truly all NNPC and similar organisations graduate recruits are referred to as Senior staff, hence why they are members of PENGASSAN and not NUPENG
@AgunbiadeJoshu8@Real1_balogun@49undefeatedd So you mean Wenger that paired him with Denilson, didn't realise he was better utilised as a CM?
The fetish of Arsenal fans believing they knew better than Wenger is always funny to me.
@Godlychi@GbengaWemimo Was the hand of God in the story of Tamar?
Even at that, Jesus came from same lineage.
Before we equate our "sense of morality" to God let's always remember God's ways and thought are far above or comprehension.
@Incredible1296@UgoPrecious7@AYODELE430802@lekan_olayinka1 Jesus thought the disciples to pray.
... "Thy kingdom come"...
Isn't that fair to allude the kingdom didn't come until after resurrection and since the statement was before resurrection, was any part of the kingdom then?
@AYODELE430802@lekan_olayinka1 Is Isaiah not part of the kingdom?
Is the kingdom restricted only to those after the death of Christ?
Is Abraham not part of the kingdom?
The least in the kingdom.
Fourteen Nigerians were kidnapped along the Lagos-Benin Expressway, but what happened afterwards is the part I think deserves serious attention.
At about 9:30pm on July 30, troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army were on routine patrol when intelligence reached them about the kidnapping in Ovia North East LGA of Edo State. They didn't wait until morning. They immediately moved after the kidnappers and followed their withdrawal route.
The pressure became too much for the criminals. They abandoned 11 of their victims and escaped into the surrounding forest.
But three people were still missing.
And this is the part I love so much. Our soldiers didn't say, "Well, we have rescued 11 out of 14." They didn't close the operation and celebrate what they had already achieved. The following day, July 31, they went back into that forest and continued searching for the remaining victims.
They combed the area until those remaining three people were found and rescued.
Just imagine what those families must have been going through throughout that night. Eleven families had received the news they desperately wanted, while three others were probably still waiting, praying and wondering where their loved ones were. Then came the news that the remaining three had also been found.
After medical assessment and preliminary debriefing, the Army confirmed that all 14 victims were in stable condition. They were reunited with their families or allowed to continue their respective journeys.
This is why timely intelligence from ordinary Nigerians matters so much. Somebody provided information, troops acted on it immediately, kidnappers were forced to run, and 14 Nigerians who could have remained in captivity are free today.
The criminals themselves are still being hunted, and I hope that part of the operation continues until they are apprehended.
Sometimes we read "14 kidnapped victims rescued" and scroll past it like it's just another headline. But those are 14 human beings. Fourteen families spared days, weeks or possibly months of uncertainty and fear.
Kudos to the troops of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army and Brigadier General Ahmed Balogun. Keep the pressure on these criminals. Every Nigerian rescued from captivity is a victory worth celebrating, and every forest denied to kidnappers makes our roads and communities a little safer. 🇳🇬
MY INBOX:
I am placing a ₦2 million bounty for credible information that leads to the identification, location, and arrest of this individual.
This is one of the faces of the criminals who burgled my shop and carted away with solar goods worth over ₦100 million naira.
If you know this person or have any useful information about his whereabouts, please contact me privately or report it to the nearest security agency.
All information will be treated with strict confidentiality.
The ₦2 million reward will be paid once the information directly leads to his arrest.
Please help me by sharing this post widely. Someone, somewhere, may recognize this face.
Thank you.
Walk with me:
If crude oil is procured weeks or months before it is processed, under commercial contracts linked primarily to monthly average pricing mechanisms, can they explain this:
US struck Iran on 28th February. By March 2nd, Dangote Refinery increased ex-depot price by ₦100 to ₦874/L.
11 days later (March 13), the ex-depot price was increased from ₦874/L to ₦1,175/L. An increase of N401/L in 11 days.
So, if crude oil is procured weeks or months ahead, and the ex-depot price reacted upward instantly to market shock, why is it not reacting downwards at the same rate after oil prices crashed?
This was the dream I had of Jonathan Subsidy Reinvestment Policy (SURE-P), such grassroot policies spurn growth at scale you won't be able to argue about.
Especially when Bolaji Abdullahi who was initially in charge of youth development was appointed as sport minister.
Let me tell you guys something. Everything you see happening with Morocco is not a fluke. They’re conscious about their growth.
You see that man the players were throwing up at the end, his name is Fouzi Lekjaa, he’s their football federation president, he’s one of the major guys behind their transformation.
Let me tell you few of their strategies.
Around 2009, they started by building state-of-the-art facilities across the country, no embezzlement, nobody stole the money for their personal gain.
The goal was for every child to have access to a facility, no matter where they are. In fact, they built some facilities that had multiple pitches, world class pitches brethren.
They mandated their league teams to also maintain their academies. Some of those young boys from various academies were part of the players that won the u20 World Cup last year. That’s one of the things Fouzi Lekjaa did. It starts with the youth.
Many of the teams also have women team, it was a mandate. That’s why you see their women’s league growing , as well as the women national team. They played the final with Nigeria last two years or so. They’ll start winning it soon.
It didn’t stop there, they’ve become so attractive that players in diaspora with Moroccan heritage can play for them. You can be eligible to play for France or England and you will choose Morocco, as it stands, because they’re not a small team anymore. They’re very attractive.
Those state of the art facilities are now being used to host tournaments, they’ve hosted many in recent years including the last AFCON. In 4 years’ time, they’ll host a World Cup. This is a country that took their growth seriously. They have a great leadership.
The good thing about them taking this seriously is that their country is now known. I have a colleague at work who has gone to Morocco on holiday more than 3 times. The tourism has greatly improved, they’re now making money from all angles. Other businesses are thriving. A leadership that has vision, not the one that wants us to fry akara.
Nothing happens by fluke brethren. Nothing.
@KamiyoJnr@SirJarus https://t.co/80oTSWP4IV
This he added no significant infrastructure is often used with little to no merit.
Remove the power plant and transmission line constructed during his eras, we'd be struggling to generate 1,000MW
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu just provided further details on his heavily hyped Renewed Hope Agenda, and the sheer mathematics of this project is deeply disturbing, especially since this mega scheme is aggressively marketed as a lifeline to better the lives of ordinary Nigerians.
In the quoted tweet below, President Tinubu claimed that exactly ₦128 billion in mortgages has been generously delivered to 1,859 families at a fixed interest rate of 9.75% spread over 20 long years through the Ministry of Finance Incorporated.
On the surface, this looks like the ultimate utopian dream project, primarily because a 9.75% mortgage rate is ridiculously low, especially when you compare it to the predatory standard market rates which presently sit anywhere between 20%, 25%, 30%, or even higher depending on the bank.
However, even with this seemingly charitable low interest rate, a simple, cold mathematical breakdown instantly exposes that these supposed affordable homes are entirely out of reach for the average, hardworking Nigerian in whose very name this multibillion Naira PR project is being violently advertised.
To see this blatant scam, simply divide ₦128 billion among 1,859 families, and you will rapidly discover that the average mortgage size is a staggering, eye-watering ₦68.8 million per home. Now, under the exact terms quoted by Tinubu, which is 9.75% interest over 20 years with a mandatory 10% equity contribution of roughly ₦6.8 million, a single family would have to reliably cough up roughly ₦600,000 to ₦650,000 every single month just to service this impossible mortgage.
This mathematical reality clearly demonstrates that the policy architects behind this Renewed Hope Agenda have completely, and spectacularly lost their minds, their touch with reality, and their basic common sense.
First of all, the brand new minimum wage recently signed into law in Nigeria is an alleged, highly disputed ₦70,000, which is an insulting amount that many state governors claim they cannot even afford to pay, sustain, or budget for. Even with this symbolic, poverty-level wage, the average Nigerian that these houses are supposedly built for would genuinely need to starve, save every single kobo, and work for one full uninterrupted year just to afford a single one-month mortgage repayment. Currently, absolutely no middle-class citizen in Nigeria with an honest, verifiable, and legitimate source of living can ever afford to burn this massive amount every month for a house, no matter how stupid, lavish, or financially reckless they want to be.
Now this begs the incredibly obvious, screaming question: why on earth is the Tinubu administration deliberately wasting ₦128 billion (a massive $90 million) to provide subsidized affordable housing to a tiny fraction of 1,859 families who are obviously loaded with cash, highly connected, financially immune, and can easily afford luxury apartments, fund their own private estates, secure massive commercial bank loans, or buy premium properties outright?
This ridiculous allocation of scarce public funds makes zero strategic sense because the exact amount quoted for this vanity project is comfortably enough to buy about 4 highly advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones, fully equip them, heavily arm them, and ship them straight to the bleeding frontlines of Northern Nigeria.
These military-grade drones can stay airborne for 30 continuous hours, monitor the entire terror-infested forests in Borno in less than one hour, track moving targets, and violently update the Nigerian military in real time for any mass gatherings of armed bandits, hostage holding areas, illegal gold mining operations, or cross-border insurgent movements.
The colossal amount of money involved in this project is not merely the ₦128 billion senselessly wasted so far. Obviously, before this entire grand, systemic money laundering scheme is fully completed, more than ₦320 billion will have magically vanished, migrated, and evaporated from the Nigerian Treasury directly into the bloated private offshore accounts of ghost contractors, corrupt civil servants, APC campaign financiers, loyal party chieftains, and the ruling party's untouchable inner circle.
This is complete madness. Our brave men in uniform are constantly being taken by surprise, ambushed, and rounded up by ragtag terrorists simply because their vulnerable forward operating bases do not come equipped with basic acoustic sensors, infrared thermal cameras, night vision goggle, or basic aerial reconnaissance drones to serve as early warning mechanisms. Yet the Commander in Chief is cheerfully burning hundreds of billions of Naira under the guise of public welfare, deliberately laundering public treasury funds into the deep back pockets of shady construction companies, and happily providing heavily subsidized affordable housing to his ultra-rich, highly privileged, and politically connected friends.
@DejiAdesogan How I wish the federal government can mandate an expedited judiciary hearing for all this guys so we can have them judged within 1-2 months and the governor's having the lover to sign the death penalty so within a quarter we know we've sent them to the almighty for His judgement