@SamAmadi By the time they're done with him, he'll be the one wishing for death or the likes.
He probably also knows the capabilities of the company he kept to enable him pull that off in the first place.
Birds of a feather, I say.
Meanwhile, what manner of criminality is this?!
@MarioNawfal I remember watching this as a child and thinking how unreal it was. Watching it now makes me realize how much more skeptical we've had to become today. If this was my first time, my first thoughts would have been "is this AI?"
@officialEFCC ๐๐๐
So all this hullabaloo is over a peaceful, non-violent operation carried out by your exemplary officers with a track record of excellent professional conduct?!
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This hospital people probably hallucinated the teargas that was entering their eyes.
@mobilisingniger@woye1@Abdulrahmanleme@oMoTonsore@_Abdulakeem_ Not going to happen. Artisanal mining has some very powerful players and interests behind them in started like Zamfara and Nassarawa. The amounts acting to the tops of their respective heirarchical pyramids are too lucrative to disrupt.
Nothing will be done.
@Equityoyo Common decency would demand that you tag him and mention him instead of opportunistically and vampirically milking his work for traffic on your TL.
"This young man" indeed. Meanwhile, you mention BAT who has nothing to do with any of this for cheap brownie points.
@TrendingEx Some of you have absolutely not a shred of respectability other than the vacuous titles you've been bestowed.
What value does a man like this have when his own words are things to flippantly deny?
I think the subtle ideology behind most of these arguments is this: "A Nigerian elite lifestyle is more comfortable than a UK average worker's lifestyle."
Sit with that for a moment.
The Nigerian "elite" at N1.8 million salary a month is not living. They are governing themselves. Generator for electricity the state will not provide. Borehole for water the state will not deliver. Private school because public education has been abandoned. Private hospital because public healthcare may kill you. Private security because the streets are not safe. Estate levies on top of taxes that fund none of this.
And that is just the money. Nobody talks about the mental load. The time spent managing all of it. The emotional labour of being your own utility company, your own local government, your own safety net, every single day.
Then there is the currency. That N1.8 million is still naira. The same naira that has at some point lost over 70% of its value since 2022. Your salary did not move. The purchasing power did. Quietly. Consistently. In one direction.
Can this "elite" leave Lagos at 10pm and drive safely to Abuja the way a UK worker leaves London and drives to Scotland? We already know the answer.
And when the salary stops? The UK average worker has a pension that arrives, an NHS, a social safety net. A floor beneath them. The Nigerian "elite" has nearly nothing underneath. Just the next month's salary standing between them and the same reality everyone else is managing.
So when someone tells you that you can live comfortably in Nigeria on a big salary, what they are actually saying is that you can afford to privately reconstruct enough of what a functional state owes every citizen, to feel like you are living. Calling it comfort is the final dishonesty.
And before the "these things happen abroad too" response arrives, noted. The difference is not the existence of problems. Every country has them. The difference is that in a functional state, failure is the exception. In Nigeria it is the architecture. The average worker there is not privately funding what the state owes them just to feel normal. That is not a comparison of problems, but of systems.
That is an expensive cope. Not comfort. ๐๐
- @Jomilojju
Dear Nigerians, PAY ATTENTION!
FDI - Foreign Direct Investments.
FPI - Foreign Portfolio Investments.
This is FPIs, not FDIs.
FPIs are loans to the Economy.
FDIs are investments in the Economy.
The $2.23 billion did not provide jobs.
It didnโt provide a single megawatt power.
It didnโt build a single factory or industry.
At maturity, the ($2.23 billion + profits) will simply come back to the United States.
The NBS was clever by 2 kobo here. They carefully avoided a sector-by-sector breakdown. But overall inflows were:
FDIs: 5%
FPIs: 80%
Others: 15%
Letโs apply a simple arithmetic:
5% of 2.23 billion = $111,500,000.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu was only able to attract $111.5 million in the first 9 months of 2025.
$111,500,000 รท 230 million population
= 0.48 United States cents per Nigerian citizen.
VERDICT = FANTASTIC FAILURE. โโโ
@Forexpolitical@Emeneks@JOHNIIIIZ Someone that thwarted his State House Assembly's decision to impeach him IN COURT cannot take hard decisions?! ๐คฏ
Who borrow this one keyboard abeg?! ๐