Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

Assuming there are 30 people in total with a daily rate of $1000(which is average for such a period where everywhere was fully booked by diplomats from various countries) and they all stayed for 5 days that is $150,000 thousand dollars

plus food and other expenses ₦390M is a reasonable budget for such a trip

Nigerian social media warriors should go and get jobs and start businesses instead of constantly complaining like spoilt citizens looking for government handouts.

Lol.

OP, I really feel for you.

Whoever trained you in school clearly wasted money that would have been more of an investment if a massive poultry farm had been the alternative.

Bola Tinubu and his entourage had absolutely NO business paying hotel bills in New York. Go and find out why knowledgeable Nigerians are outraged and stop disgracing your entire lineage on nairaland.

akingangan:
Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

Assuming there are 30 people in total with a daily rate of $1000(which is average for such a period where everywhere was fully booked by diplomats from various countries) and they all stayed for 5 days that is $150,000 thousand dollars

plus food and other expenses ₦390M is a reasonable budget for such a trip

Nigerian social media warriors should go and get jobs and start businesses instead of constantly complaining like spoilt citizens looking for government handouts.

Defending wastage,who told him to travel with 30 people

I think it's cheap also, quiet cheap ....

However, did he have to travel with all of them?
Traveling with all these people was quiet unnecessary, besides with what the country is going through, it would have been ideal for him to try and reduce cost, especially when he keeps asking the masses to make sacrifice......

Besides, Nigeria have a consulate in NewYork... A prudent leader who seeks to cut cost would have stayed there or put some on his entourage there, but no, most African leaders wouldn't do that....

I don't think you will reason it from the way these two guys above reasoned it, you reek of sentiments and irrationality..... mind you, I agree with you that's it's cheap

BoldBrainz:
Lol.

OP, I really feel for you.

Whoever trained you in school clearly wasted money that would have been more of an investment if a massive poultry farm had been the alternative.

Bola Tinubu and his entourage had absolutely NO business paying hotel bills in New York. Go and find out why knowledgeable Nigerians are outraged and stop disgracing your entire lineage on nairaland.

Where should Tinubu have slept? In his family house wey him grandpa built for USA?

Some Nigerians are deluded. I don't know the noise about what Tinubu entourage spent, that amount is what 99% of the world president will spend attending that UN gathering.

You don't expect Tinubu as a Nigerian president to go and bool hotel in faraway New Jersey and commute daily to New York. Won't he book the hotel closer to the venue where other world president gather?

akingangan:
Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

Assuming there are 30 people in total with a daily rate of $1000(which is average for such a period where everywhere was fully booked by diplomats from various countries) and they all stayed for 5 days that is $150,000 thousand dollars

plus food and other expenses ₦390M is a reasonable budget for such a trip

Nigerian social media warriors should go and get jobs and start businesses instead of constantly complaining like spoilt citizens looking for government handouts.

I pity you, a reasonable government will not travel with such a crowd at this time we are battling inflation or they can fund Thier trip if they must make the trip. You don't really need your brain to support APC

LegendHero:


Where should Tinubu have slept? In his family house wey him grandpa built for USA?

Some Nigerians are deluded. I don't know the noise about what Tinubu entourage spent, that amount is what 99% of the world president will spend attending that UN gathering.

You're not an intelligent fellow. Your education is clearly limited to you ability to piece words together while dancing on whatever jaundiced perception you have on issues.

Nigeria has a 22-storey building government house on Second Avenue, New York, which Buhari himself had even used on certain occasions. It is a multi-billion naira edifice that is currently rotting away while your President went to the same New York to fritter away almost 400 million naira of money the country doesn't even have and you're foolish enough to come here to defend such profligacy.

This man

akingangan:
Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

Assuming there are 30 people in total with a daily rate of $1000(which is average for such a period where everywhere was fully booked by diplomats from various countries) and they all stayed for 5 days that is $150,000 thousand dollars

plus food and other expenses ₦390M is a reasonable budget for such a trip

Nigerian social media warriors should go and get jobs and start businesses instead of constantly complaining like spoilt citizens looking for government handouts.

U pple need to stop defending ur oppressors ..

How much are they even paying you for this dirty behavior??

Some people like Tinubu name they can't do without him in a day. Let me add Okikiola to his name

akingangan:
Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

At this critical period where we need to cut governance cost to the barest minimum,going to such summit with that massive entourage is not healthy for our dwindling finance.With the way this FG spend with reckless abandon,it's a big insult to our collective intelligence if they keep telling us the country is broke and individuals should tighten their belt because people at the helms of affairs are doing the stark opposite.

Okay nah. Make we do the calculations

BoldBrainz:


You're not an intelligent fellow. Your education is clearly limited to you ability to piece words together while dancing on whatever jaundiced perception you have on issues.

Nigeria has a 22-storey building government house on Second Avenue, New York, which Buhari himself had even used on certain occasions. It is a multi-billion naira edifice that is currently rotting away while your President went to the same New York to fritter away almost 400 million naira of money the country doesn't even have and you're foolish enough to come here to defend such profligacy.

You stay were the action is.

You certainly have no idea how conventions work were people stay in proximity of event and network.

If you have the opportunity to network with several powerful governments from around the world why stay in your house?


It is necessary for the president to travel with productive entourage that can learn and bring investment from the best place to network with all countries

BoldBrainz:


You're not an intelligent fellow. Your education is clearly limited to you ability to piece words together while dancing on whatever jaundiced perception you have on issues.

Nigeria has a 22-storey building government house on Second Avenue, New York, which Buhari himself had even used on certain occasions. It is a multi-billion naira edifice that is currently rotting away while your President went to the same New York to fritter away almost 400 million naira of money the country doesn't even have and you're foolish enough to come here to defend such profligacy.

You’re saying nonsense.

Below is the hotel Buhari and his entourage stayed when he went in 2015.

Tinubu is even more moderate, Jonathan went with over 600 delegation during his own time.

Let’s even say for argument sake that per night cost $1k because it will be rush time and for 600 people per day, that’s like $600,000 per night.

If Jonathan and his guys use 5 days, that’s like $3m alone on accommodation.

I personally am of the opinion that cutting cost is good. The only best way to cut the cost is to make sure there president do not attend. However, if he must attend, then he need to stay close to where other president stay because that time is also used to network and other stuffs.

He either sit his a** down in Nigeria and give UN the middle finger that Nigeria is not coming because we are too broke to afford logistics money OR he go there and live like a true President.

https://saharareporters.com/2015/09/23/buhari-attending-un-general-assembly-22-man-delegation-nigeria’s-slimmest-decades

Lool...o.p na your type dey beg money online

You don't need to explain lett them continue cry. New York hotels is most expensive and even more expensive during such events.

How many people was the bill for definitely only for Mr. President.

akingangan:
Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

Assuming there are 30 people in total with a daily rate of $1000(which is average for such a period where everywhere was fully booked by diplomats from various countries) and they all stayed for 5 days that is $150,000 thousand dollars

plus food and other expenses ₦390M is a reasonable budget for such a trip

Nigerian social media warriors should go and get jobs and start businesses instead of constantly complaining like spoilt citizens looking for government handouts.

They are still foolishly spending when we are broke .. y go with 7 governors

akingangan:
Tinubu traveled to New York, one of the world's most expensive cities for the UN assembly meeting with 7 governors and seven ministers amongst others like special advisers and security.

Assuming there are 30 people in total with a daily rate of $1000(which is average for such a period where everywhere was fully booked by diplomats from various countries) and they all stayed for 5 days that is $150,000 thousand dollars

plus food and other expenses ₦390M is a reasonable budget for such a trip

Nigerian social media warriors should go and get jobs and start businesses instead of constantly complaining like spoilt citizens looking for government handouts.

Can we afford it given the economic situation in the country

Anything is a bargain if you can afford it
What is the minimum wage in Nigeria?


That is the annual salary of 1000 Nigerians

It is callous and insensitive to say it is a bargain
Why must 7 governors and Ministers go there?

A President will use a Suite, not a room. A President is not like you and I that just takes a room that is available.

It is also likely that Nigeria will have booked an entire floor for the President and his most senior team. This will be necessary to ensure security of the President. DSS will not want unknown strangers from Venezuela, Iran, Colombia, North Korea etc to be on the same floor as the President. That's dangerous.

Nigerian security details will man the floor and control access to the President's Suite 24/7 even when the President is sleeping. This level of physical security presence will not be possible if there are other guests on the same floor as the President.

The President 's Suite alone will cost between $5000 - $10,000 per day. An entire floor will cost may be $30000 per day. The President and others need food. The hotel would supply expensive, sumptuous foods and drinks in abundance. Was the President supposed to call the hotel receptionist and say please I am from a poor country, we don't want expensive food Or was Mrs Tinubu supposed to pack Agege bread and pure water in tge President 's luggage in order to save Nigeria money?

Or are Nigeria's President , Governors etc expected to share rooms because 'Nigeria is poor.'

Yes the cost is high, but not intolerable.

All those fccking rogue clerks that release this fake info you are doomed.

advanceDNA:


U pple need to stop defending ur oppressors ..

How much are they even paying you for this dirty behavior??

Either Stockholm syndrome or poverty induced BDSM.

BoldBrainz:
Lol.

OP, I really feel for you.

Whoever trained you in school clearly wasted money that would have been more of an investment if a massive poultry farm had been the alternative.

Bola Tinubu and his entourage had absolutely NO business paying hotel bills in New York. Go and find out why knowledgeable Nigerians are outraged and stop disgracing your entire lineage on nairaland.

Poor people like yourself, should not involve yourself with issues of the rich & powerful.

DeLaRue:
A President will use a Suite, not a room. A President is not like you and I that just takes a room that is available.

It is also likely that Nigeria will have booked an entire floor for the President and his most senior team. This will be necessary to ensure security of the President. DSS will not want unknown strangers from Venezuela, Iran, Colombia, North Korea etc to be on the same floor as the President. That's dangerous.

Nigerian security details will man the floor and control access to the President's Suite 24/7 even when the President is sleeping. This level of physical security presence will not be possible if there are other guests on the same floor as the President.

The President 's Suite alone will cost between $5000 - $10,000 per day. An entire floor will cost may be $30000 per day. The President and others need food. The hotel would supply expensive, sumptuous foods and drinks in abundance. Was the President supposed to call the hotel receptionist and say please I am from a poor country, we don't want expensive food Or was Mrs Tinubu supposed to pack Agege bread and pure water in tge President 's luggage in order to save Nigeria money?

Or are Nigeria's President , Governors etc expected to share rooms because 'Nigeria is poor.'

Yes the cost is high, but not intolerable.

Talk on the basis of affordability not entitlement

Where is the money coming from

Mostly borrowing

Almost all our revenue is used to service debt

Is that a sober way to behave under such circumstances
Why not confess the country is broke and use Zoom

DeLaRue:
A President will use a Suite, not a room. A President is not like you and I that just takes a room that is available.

It is also likely that Nigeria will have booked an entire floor for the President and his most senior team. This will be necessary to ensure security of the President. DSS will not want unknown strangers from Venezuela, Iran, Colombia, North Korea etc to be on the same floor as the President. That's dangerous.

Nigerian security details will man the floor and control access to the President's Suite 24/7 even when the President is sleeping. This level of physical security presence will not be possible if there are other guests on the same floor as the President.

The President 's Suite alone will cost between $5000 - $10,000 per day. An entire floor will cost may be $30000 per day. The President and others need food. The hotel would supply expensive, sumptuous foods and drinks in abundance. Was the President supposed to call the hotel receptionist and say please I am from a poor country, we don't want expensive food Or was Mrs Tinubu supposed to pack Agege bread and pure water in tge President 's luggage in order to save Nigeria money?

Or are Nigeria's President , Governors etc expected to share rooms because 'Nigeria is poor.'

Yes the cost is high, but not intolerable.

An exposed man way get brains, unlike that callously native naive thing called boldbrainz, that takes pride in his ignorance.

Gajagojo:


Talk on the basis of affordability not entitlement

Where is the money coming from

Mostly borrowing

Almost all our revenue is used to service debt

Is that a sober way to behave under such circumstances
Why not confess the country is broke and use Zoom

Let them be deceiving the poor people like yourself @ the bottom of the ladder that the country is broke, whilst those @ the top live fat of the commonwealth.

Solsix:

I pity you, a reasonable government will not travel with such a crowd at this time we are battling inflation or they can fund Thier trip if they must make the trip. You don't really need your brain to support APC

You think the president and presidency care for anyone apart from their family members?

saobobo80:


You think the president and presidency care for anyone apart from their family members?

Was it a personal visit to the United States by your President?

Burob:
Poor people like yourself, should not involve yourself with issues of the rich & powerful.

For someone whose father is supposedly a Justice in the Supreme court, you're coarse, crude and toutish in mannerism and self expression.

You lack anything resembling mental propriety and behavioural decency, even in your public conversations with strangers.

You're either a pathological liar or a child who was raised with close to no morals. I can make it a point of duty to troll you but that would be a colossal waste of my words, time and mind space. So I'll rather let you wallow in your crass stupidity.

Wailers are wailing online Jagaban is balling offline. On your mandate Asiwaju.

The justifications sha. There's Nigeria house in New York , the money from which the expenses were made was from an agriculture savings. Percentage of money earned on wheat taxes is what was used for this extravaganza and people are shamelessly defending it. Na wa o

BoldBrainz:
Lol.

OP, I really feel for you.

Whoever trained you in school clearly wasted money that would have been more of an investment if a massive poultry farm had been the alternative.

Bola Tinubu and his entourage had absolutely NO business paying hotel bills in New York. Go and find out why knowledgeable Nigerians are outraged and stop disgracing your entire lineage on nairaland.

You should be given award to the emboldened but don't ask me the type of award.