greenermodels:
From 1987 till today, no cjn from the southeast,I laugh at one Nigeria. No university in the southeast and south south benefited from the ongoing students loans, I laugh even harder at one Nigeria.

You are not correct about the student loan. University of Benin was represented in the first list. By the time they publish the 2nd list many more universities will be represented.

The truth is, most Southerners dismiss every government initiative as propaganda and fake. Take off is also poor in the South West.

The student loan scheme was consistently dismissed as fake here on Nairaland and in social media despite government's efforts to publicise it. Many, mostly Southerners did not bother to apply.

Northerners on the other hand don't joke with government schemes, hence the high take-up in the North.

You can't blame government in this instance.

anonymous1759:


You’re intoxicated With your own bitterness it’ll consume you someday.
I wonder how your likes live a happy life with so much hate nawa. Nnamdi Azikiwe really did you people dirty for not listening to Awolowo chai.

No hate in what he wrote, though his comment about 'your most educated zone' is questionable.

Overall, it can't be mere coincidence that justices from the South East tend to be promoted to the Supreme Court too late in their career to have a chance of becoming Chief Justice.

If it is one of the busiest roads in Nigeria, the Federal government should be reconstructing the road to a good standard.

What is the federal government doing ignoring this vital road while pursuing the unknown in the form of coastal road.

Motorists must worry whether Ogun State can finance a 70 kilometres dual carriage way of good standard without cutting corners.

I would advise you to watch what you post on social media and what information you help to spread.

Eventually one of you people peddling information that you can't defend with evidence will be arrested, charged to court and made a scapegoat. Those who liked your post here will abandone you to your suffering.

Do you have evidence that the President bought a yacht? And you can prove in court that the plane was bought for N150 billion abi?

You think you can't be traced. Continue.

Whatever people think, I have no doubt that there is a quiet scheme to keep certain people out of certain positions.

Anyone that denies it is deceiving himself.

And I think a lot of it goes back to incidents before, during and after that first coup in 1963, then the civil war and beyond.

There was a time, during the Second Republic when it seemed Nigeria was pulling together and leaving destructive mistrust behind.

Unfortunately, I think we have gone full circle and returned to an even more virulent state of total mistrust or distrust, whatever you want to call it.

Social media has done so much harm to Nigeria, and continues to do so. Uncontrolled, impatient, and unreasonable expressions of hate by lone operators against a whole tribe over the act of a single person is causing mayhem and making mistrust on all sides worse.

And there is no sign of that type of behaviour abating.

This headline ehn.

Wale Tinubu is just the CEO of Oando. He does not own Oando.

Oando has owned 20% of the oil wells for many years. Agip wanted to sell its own 20% . Naturally, Oando as an existing shareholder will have a right of first refusal. Now they have exercised that right by buying Agip's 20% to add to Oando's existing 20%. Normal business transaction.

The only reason social media is making a big deal of this transaction is because the CEO is a relation of the President.

But this AGIP deal has been going on for about 3 years, since under Mr Buhari. They have only just concluded it now. Oando's deal with AGIP is about $800m. Similar deals done by other Nigerian oil companies with Shell and Mobil exceeded $1 billion yet there was no noise about those deals.

Should Oando's deal have been scrapped once the current President came into power? Just because he is a relative of Oando's CEO, Oando should cease to do business?

Oando is a public company with shares listed in the Nigerian stock exchange. Tens of thousands of ordinary Nigerians own shares in the company and will benefit from its future success. You too can buy shares in the company if you want. With N5000, you can buy shares in the company, and become a part owner.

Wale Tinubu does not own Oando.

Social media-inspired histrionics around this transaction is nonsense.

Oando's share price has gone up by over 60% in the last 10 days. People are making money. Yet, they mislead uninformed youths to be on social media 24/7 lamenting, and deceiving them that Mr Tinubu is their problem. But these people are making money in this same economy.

Youths, wake up. Open ya eyes. Opportunities dey Nigeria.

franchasofficia:
All the people supporting this evil policy or giving excuses for it are Yoruba APC supporters, whatever nonsense Tinubu does is right to them, time will tell sha

It didn't take you long to go tribal.

Everybody's gearing up to take advantage of local government financial independence.

If these young guys think the usual politicians will cheepisshly give way to them, they will surprised. State governors will still decide who wins.

If this guy has resigned from his banking job, I hope he has a 3rd option.

N73 billion for that!

Nigerian politicians and public officials are wicked.

I sympathise with anyone that loses his job in these difficult times.

The reality is that every business goes through a circle. There are times you make profit. Occasionally, there can be a loss. That's business life.

If a company like this one which has been making billions in Nigeria every year for several years suddenly makes a loss, it is not nice but it is also not the end of the world.

Besides, Google, Facebook, Tesla etc have been laying off hundreds of thousands of employees in 'sane clime' USA.

Are they also based in Nigeria.

The global economy is going through a difficult circle. Virtually every country is affected one way or the other.

So in addition to being a so-called activist, this guy is also an international economist.

Curdlebug:
Customs are a menace... so someone should not send phone to Nigeria again and why is DHL own always different... USA pickers on Nairaland don't spend this much to clear phones and laptops naa... nawa o

Who are these pickers on nairaland.

Examples please.

Buying things from abroad can work smoothly at times.

At other times, the Nigerian factor will hit you with a nasty shock.

I don't know the full details of this imbroglio, and I sympathise with those affected.

However, I can tell you that every country in the world, including the USA, UK, and other countries in Europe, act in their own selfish interest when they face a critical situation.

The USA for example has banned a number of American technology companies from selling certain products to China, just because they want to slow down China's technological advancement. Google NVIDIA export ban. Another example - during COVID, many countries that were less affected by COVID refused to sell their unused stock of Covid vaccines to countries in desperate need.

So, when a country faces a desperate situation, it is not uncommon for the government of that country to take decisions it considers to be in its people's best interest.

That is not to say I agree with the government's position. It is just the reality.

Most people in the South don't really understand.

Too much gra gra and tribal fighting will not let many Southerners patiently analyse the politics of this country.

Daily Trust and the Associations in the North mostly kept quiet under Mr Buhari. Now, they suddenly regained their voices. For altruistic Nigerian interest? Absolutely not.

The North will win the game of politics in Nigeria all the time because many down South can't and won't see the age-long formulae those people use when a Southern president is in power.

Every day, another problem.

I thought it was the NNPC's own allocation that was to be channelled to local refineries

How can the federal government dictate to independent producers who to sell to.

With this latest palaver, doe thar mean the October start date for selling to Dangote refinery may not materialise?

Chai...Naijeeerriaaa

Some crooked politicians will be regretting granting traditional worshipers holiday now that the traditional worshippers are coming after them

Anyway, anyone that thinks Nigerian politicians will be afraid to take a traditional oaths of office is deceiving himself.

Things are hard in most countries right now. It is just different shades of pain.

Try Cameroon, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Argentina, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Haiti, UK, Canada, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau, Somalia, Kenya, USA, New Zealand, Germany, France, Mali, Burkina Faso etc

Turkey is worse than Nigeria.
Argentina is worse than Nigeria.
Lebanon is worse than Nigeria.
So many other countries are worse than Nigeria.

There is no constitutional right to cheap petrol. As a country, we got ourselves into the current situation due to over 50 years of economic mismanagement.

We have to work ourselves out of this mess.

You say people are quiet. What do you want people to do. Burn everything and everywhere? And then after that what happens. We go and beg World Bank to lend us money to rebuild what we burnt?

We just have to buckle down and work harder to fix the country.

There is no magic solution anywhere.

Is the NLC above the law?

Are they saying their Chairman is too big to be invited by the Police.

The man has not been charged with anything. Just invitation.

It is not a personal property.

Future President's will use it.

A Nigerian President needs to be able to fly in a plane owned by Nigeria as and when needed.

People who say the prime ministers of some countries in Europe use commercial planes. Yes, but those countries airports and airlines are very well connected to other countries.

Nigeria airlines don't fly to many countries. I think Airpeace only flies to the UK.

So, what if Nigeria's President needs to travel to France, USA, Brazil etc? He should fly Air France, or United Airlines? What if those airlines are not available on the day he needs to fly?

Because the price of beans and garri is high, Nigeria should not buy an aeroplane? I disagree.

The Nigerian government can do both - buy the plane and continue to work to make life easier for citizens.

Tellmeastory:


How much did Obi hide in his account there?

Is there a round figure?

As a political office holder (Governor), Mr Obi was forbidden by law from operating a foreign bank account without declaring it.

As Governor, Mr Obi tried to bypass this requirement by operating the Panama account in his daughter's name.

When he was caught, he said he was not aware of the law

Like I said, oher Nigerian politicians do hide money in secret accounts in other people's name (usally their children) abroad. So, Mr Obi was not alone.

The only laughable thing is that he parades himself as a saint who is totally different from other politicians, and his supporters believe him 100%.

Tellmeastory:


How much did Obi hide in his account there?

Is there a round figure?

I can't remember exactly. It was a few million dollars.

Check Google.

Tellmeastory:


What?

Explain pls..

Mr Obi hid money in a secret bank account in Panama, in his daughter's name.

A few other Nigerian politicians were named in the scandal.

Panama is a small country in South America where you can safely hide dirty money in secret bank accounts.

Check Google for 'Obi Panama account scandal'. It should come up with the details.

It is laughable that some think Mr Obi is a saint.

So, sometime in recent weeks, Mr Tinubu gathered key Aso Rock staff and Ministers and told them, boys, I want you to plot a scheme to disguise the purchase of a new Presidential aircraft.

One of those assembled, most likely someone from Ogun State, raised his hands and said, sir!, I have a brilliant idea.

There is this Chinese company that has a long running legal dispute with Ogun State that has been going from country to country trying to enforce a court judgement on Nigeria's assets abroad. Why don't we secretly give them info that 3 of our Presidential jets will be in France for servicing in August so that they can get a court order to seize them. We can then use the seizure to support the need for a new Presidential jet.

The President must have then said, what a brilliant idea! and give the oder for the secret mission to proceed

This is conspiracy theory gone mad.

What an absolute nutcase this Sowore of a man is. Is blatant lying also protected as human right under the Nigerian constitution?

He revels in the massive delusion that majority of Nigerians take him seriously when all he does is lie and instigate in order to gain notoriety so that the white people funnelling dollars to him in the misguided belief that he is genuinely fighting for human rights in Nigeria will continue to do so.

How does a man know whether or not a lady is wearing an underwear. Am I missing something.

Also, who told this woman men (not boys) find a lady without a bra attractive. I certainly don't.

Honestly, I do not recall seeing a woman without a bra in several years in this Lagos. Probably because I don't look at women like that, let alone making it my business to inspect whether they wear a bra or not.

I think this woman is just making excuses for irresponsible married men.

Gold price is currently $80,000 per kg.

The man said there was 1 ton (1000 kg) on the desk.

That's $80 million dollars on that desk!

If you have that in gold alone, your total networth is unlikely to be less than $500 million dollars.

Yet, he has no legitimate business.

Government employ you to generate revenue. Same Government say make you send 50% of the revenue (not even 100% o) back to am, you say you no gree.

You say you wan call nationwide strike.

Wonders shall never end.

So, federal government shouldnt claim 50% of monies collected by its own agency?

Same problem we have with FIRS, Customs, NNPC and the rest.

Federal government, House of Rep, Senate have to beg these agencies to send money to the government.

NNPC's own is even more perplexing. They just do their own thing. Their MD appears to be more powerful than the everybody, except may be the President.

Is there any other country in the world that has this type of joke set up.

So the Governor admitted receiving grains sent by federal government several weeks ago but claims they are still planning the distribution.

People are starving yet you kept free food in warehouses.

Some of these Governors are just so wicked.

So the Governor admitted receiving grains sent by federal government several weeks ago but claims they are still planning the distribution.