NewStats: 3,259,769 , 8,170,863 topics. Date: Sunday, 25 May 2025 at 11:21 PM 6q502i

CreativeOrbit:
Don’t patronize me with that lazy “read again” nonsense. I read it just fine the first time—and what’s actually contradicting here is your ability to process what was said.

The man’s point was that governors and lawmakers are endorsing the president because he’s funneled more money their way—not because of national progress, not because of any transformative leadership, but because their pockets are heavier. That’s not a justification—it’s an indictment.

So when I call that out as corruption, not merit, you say I’m contradicting him? No—I’m exposing him. You’re just too comfortable with mediocrity and greed masquerading as governance to it it.

Here’s the bottom line: if a president needs to grease the hands of governors and lawmakers with outrageous allocations just to earn their endorsement, that’s not democracy—that’s organized looting. And if you’re defending that, then don’t pretend you care about Nigeria. You're just defending a feeding trough because your favorite pigs are the ones eating.

Now go read that again—slowly this time.

The reason you were asked to read the statement again is because the person you quoted never claimed it was a JUSTIFICATION, and neither did they suggest the actions were RIGHT. They simply pointed out the obvious (albeit selfish) reason why politicians were endorsing the president.

seunjungle1:
What I don't understand is how some people believed that Peter Obi is different from other bad politicians.

If he wasn't different, all of you wouldnt have been crazily obsessed about him.

Someone who in your words took "a distant third" in the election, yet the presidency can't stop talking about him, the rest of the opposition cant stop talking about him, the media can't stop talking about him. If you check topics and social media trends, his name trends even more than the president cos everyone seems obsessed about him. The only reason someone like him isnt president is cos Africa is a shithole continent.

9JAMac10:
you misconstrued the comment. The white cardinal will be let in with his company unlike an African cardinal . White folks got an unspoken code among them irrespective of nationality

Lol... So it's now racism? Which kind of paranoia, or should I say 'victim mentality' is this?

Meanwhile there's absolutely nothing in that video that remotely suggests Cardinal Arinze, Obi or Fayemi were barred from entering anywhere. The entire 'bouncing' narrative is just a dumb imagination of some silly bloggers cos numerous other pictures show Obi and Fayemi inside the venue behind Tinubu and other dignitaries.

9JAMac10:
Hahaha. Black man still never get self awareness even at old age. If that cardinal was white they will find a loophole to let them in. I been around whites for a long time every move is subtle and subliminal by them folks . Wake me up when they elect an African Pope

You actually think a cardinal was bounced too?

Old message but still very relevant till tomorrow. CHANGE BEGINS WITH YOU!!!

fergie001:
As announced from the balcony of St. Peter's by the Prefect pf the Apostolic Signature, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, a 73-year-old Frenchman born in Morocco.

He is the 267th Pope and the first American to be so named. He is to be known as Pope Leo XIV. He is a member of the Order of St Augustine.

FreeStuffsNG:

He is originally from Peru. I will not be surprised if he has Italian roots like the departed Pope Francis

Congratulations to the new Pope. May God use you mightily.

So many countries mentioned here, I'm confused. I first read Frenchman, then I saw Morocco and then America was mentioned and finally Peru.

Oh lest I forget, possible Italian roots as well

benuejosh:
But what if the VDM you're all ing actually commited a financial crime?

We like him for his boldness but, make we also the think without allow emotions cloud us. What could he have possibly done for them to arrest him?

We've not known exactly what the issue is yet.

Then why is it so difficult for those who arrested him to say so?

Over 48 hours later, and with all the backlash, why has the efcc been unable to say anything reasonable regarding why he was arrested?

Anybody with a grasp of how the system works in Nigeria, already knows this is just another case of individuals lawlessly using security forces as private thugs for hire. EFCC has probably spent the last 48 hours desperately trying to cook up a meaningful allegation to present to the public.

Kaiii.... This country is full of imbecilees.... How did some people manage to turn this into a tribal war overnight?

proff010:
Can you imagine a grown up man that can't think by himself but rely on someone's action. So because vdm mama get issue with Gtbank I should now have issue with them too. Common this is what fela called.
Fela has a name for you guysss... Zombieeeeee

Someone was arrested for complaining about erratic deductions from his mum's . Nigerians are reacting to the injustice and intimidation by threatening to close their s with the bank. The only thing you could deduce from this scenario is that the people speaking up are zombies?

Who do you really think is the zombie in this case?

Kobojunkie:
You keep trying to sidestep, in vain, the fact that this is, after all, about getting paid right here on earth though. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2. Christianity is a religion where your gods-of-men get what is due them here on earth while you, their , dream of someplace called heaven. 😂😂😂

I'm also working hard, getting paid handsomely, and living well whilst here on Earth. So why should I feel triggered by another person who's doing same just because the person bears the title of 'pastor'?

Did anyone ask you not to work hard or get paid or live a good life? If that's your case, then your ignorance is to be blamed, not the pastor.

Kobojunkie:
Ah! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So, this money he needs to survive on earth is money for the latest jeep and the sort. Una many formats no dey disappointed! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

So after I work hard and make billions, I should ride around in a wheelbarrow cos I want to please Kobojunkie and some other inconsequential fellows who feel triggered by my existense?

Kobojunkie:
Oh, now the format is that their wages are paid here on earth, and it is no longer according to Paul who said his wages would be paid to him after he had finished his work? Finally, you all are beginning to it, at least, that even Paul has no connection to your hogwash! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This should be common sense! A man needs money to survive here on earth, whether he's a pastor or a devil.

Many people who are fake Christians always looking for meaningless things to deperately justify their faithlessness!

Someone said the pastor drives range rover is the reason he doesn't go to church no more as if to say the pastor was what they were going to church for.

A labourer is worthy of his wages! Why e com dey pepper people say this labourer dey chop? If e easy, run am make we see!

In the last 5 years, this dude wakes up by 4am to organise bombastic prayers for 2 hours every weekday. He's getting millions upon millions of view from all across the word on his multiple social media platforms. The revenue he gets from Youtube alone is sufficient to buy 10 of these cars each year. If e easy, run am make we see!

Oh I forgot, because he's a pastor, he should ideally be driving a tortoise car despite making legit billions from his social media platforms.

bfire:

This is very depressing to see supposed educated young men hammering, and comparing GDP of Nigeria over.

It's half baked education.

PPP is a better way to measure how a country is fearing.

California GDP is greater in numbers to that of Japan. It does not mean California is richer or better than Japan.

will continue..

If in your so-called 'educated' opinion, GDP per capita isn't a valid measure of economic performance, then please enlighten us; what do you propose as a more accurate metric for assessing Nigeria's economic woes?

Perhaps we can also assess things based on your expert opinion.

MrRichmond:
2027 is not far again.

The elites are gathering around tinubu, let's see if the masses will be dumb enough to follow them again.

The masses are forever dumb, the black man has a fundamental IQ problem! Regardless of rigging and vote buying, Tinubu will still have millions vote for and defend him beyond 2027.

emperor4love:
100 or 200 dolls fr verification fee, this one na final scraping the wan run ppl

The people dey very heartless. After pocketing over a trillion, dem still wan suck $100 and $200 from the grieving losers.

Kalukalu don cast!

Congratulations to the winners!

Sympathy to the losers -- Better luck next time!

Same pattern, different seasons!

ObosiLandlord:
If you truly have a common sense, you will know am only calling out a hypocrite who was silent because his children got employed in the CBN and NNPCL under Buhari.

Nigeria is currently grappling with a severe debt crisis, thanks to Buhari's reckless borrowing. But in less than 2 (out of a likely 8 ) years, the current regime has pushed us deeper into the abyss, racking up an additional $9.45 billion (~N13 trillion) in loans, while everyone with a voice has remained silent. Now that someone has finally dared to raise a legitimate alarm on how most of these loans are squandered on frivolous and dubious expenses, your best line of response is to focus on the character of the messenger? A matter of national urgency, and you're only concerned with attacking the individual raising the concern. And yet, you think I'm the one lacking in wisdom?

Anyway, "Great minds discuss ideas, small minds discuss people;" so I'm not surprised at your your reaction cos it's very typical of Nigerians. We easily lose focus, veering away from pressing issues to focus on irrelevance - exactly what our plundering political elites want. Nigerians always fall into the same trap, derailing the real conversation with either tribal, religious or other irrelevant small talks. Whether some of you do this deliberately and tactfully to derail the topic or whether you innocently do it out of ignorance, I can't even tell.

Meanwhile, a simple Google search should have cleared your ignorance; the same Ndume was also the only vocal senator against the reckless borrowing under Buhari.

https://www.timesng.com/news/top-news/485230-apc-senator-faults-buharis-borrowing-plan-senates-speedy-approvals.html?tztc=1
https://punchng.com/dont-spend-foreign-loans-on-salaries-overhead-ndume-tells-buhari/
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/10/10/bamidele-ndume-disagree-buharis-fresh-borrowing-plans/

ObosiLandlord:
You said nothing when Buhari borrowed more than $30 billion in 8 years with very little on ground to show for it

So the best intellectual defense your brain can muster for the current regime's fiscal recklessness is that "BUHARI and his cronies, of which Tinubu and his gang were largely a part, also recklessly plundered Nigeria's economy with irresponsible borrowings and debt"?

So that’s your genius justification? A legacy of economic vandalism is now a blueprint every new regime must follow?

Just watched the full interview where Ndume knocked Tinubu on lopsided appointments, but I'm surprised no one is talking of where he also slammed the government on irresponsible borrowings.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IR-tphOPhQ?si=mv-Rqs4EvEHI3muZ

For context:
June 2023 - $500 million - "Women programme to scale up NPWPS"
June 2023 - $800 million - "Cushion the effect of high petrol prices after fuel subsidy removal"
September 2023 - $700 million - "Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment"
December 2023 - $750 million - 'Renewable Energy Scale-up."
June 2024 - $1.5 billion - "To Nigeria’s Reform for Economic Stabilisation to Enable transformation"
June 2024 - $750 million - "Efforts to stabilise the economy to scale up to the poor"

$9.45 billion (about N13 trillion) loans in less than 2 years despite Nigeria being in a debt crisis, yet there's not a single tangible project anyone can point out on ground to justify this. Meanwhile some supposedly 'bright' economists claim we're on a 'right economic path!

Every sound person knows there's nothing wrong with borrowing if the borrowing is for productive reasons. However, none of the above-listed items seem to be related to infrastructure or productivity.

Tinubu and his lieutenants currently seem to be on a shopping spree using Nigeria’s credit card. But as sickening as this might be, just watch how some people, many of whom along with their families, haven’t had a decent meal in weeks, will jump in to defend fiscal irresponsibility, purely out of 'the usual' sentiments.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/tinubus-borrowed-for-ambiguous-intangible-projects-without-legislative-approval-ndume-alleges/?amp

suasmablow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IR-tphOPhQ?si=mv-Rqs4EvEHI3muZ

Watched the full Ndume interview where he knocked the govt on lopsided appointments, but was surprised why no one seemed to be talking of where he also slammed the government on irresponsible borrowings!

June 2023 - $500 million - "women programmes to scale up"
June 2023 - $800 million - "cushion the effect of high petrol prices after fuel subsidy removal"
September 2023 - $700 million - "The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment"
December 2023 - $750 million - 'Renewable Scale-up." Whatever that means!
June 2024 - $1.5 billion - "Enable Nigeria’s reform for economic transformation"
June 2024 - $750 million - "Efforts to stabilise the economy to scale up to the poor"

Everyone with a good brain knows there's nothing wrong with borrowing if the borrowing is for productive reasons. However, none of the above listed items has anything to do with infrastructure or productivity, rather just frivolous proposals to loot.

Tinubu and his lieutenants are currently on a shopping spree using Nigeria’s credit card. But as sickening as this might be, just watch how some persons who neither they nor their families have had a decent meal in weeks, will jump in to defend fiscal irresponsibility purely based on tribal, political and/or religious sentiments.

Someone trying to be smart was asking what OBI would have done differently; without a doubt, OBI wouldn't be subjecting Nigeria to a deeper debt crisis by borrowing foolishly!

Why is he in prison?
Did he commit a crime?
If yes, what crime did he commit?
If he indeed committed a crime, then it isn't our business and shouldn't be news.

LordBiden:

Government has no business running shopping malls,just create an enabling environment,then source for investors.
Soludo should know better.

obiekunie01:


Government is not supposed to be invloved in building malls.

There are more serious things for government to do.

Nothing wrong with the government running a business that will produce revenue, employment and profits for the state. I believe it becomes a problem only if the investment isn't something profitable or if it's a liability investment where the government has to start subsidising rent for businesses.

Only other red flag would be if the government would be directly involved in its management. As long as the day to day management is concessioned to serious private sector managers, then there's really nothing wrong with this.

One funny thing about Reno's obsession with Obi is how Obi completely ignores him.

The second funniest thing is how even the Tinubu and APC folks he's desperately trying to ass lick also ignore him like a leper.

Everything is a source of senseless intertribal fights and insults these days. Sometimes I wonder the kind of retarded brains some of the people making these comments have; and these arent even kids.

Ghen Ghen!!!

The Tinubu we all know will never disappoint! Democracy in the mud!

Walker001:
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“However, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu reached out and gave him more than where he called home at his most trying time.

“It was purely his personal decision to leave the Labour Party to where he found love. Most of you attacking and insulting him would do the same, if not worse,” the source noted.

Isaac Balami Accused Peter Obi, Obidients of Abandoning Okupe in his Sick Bed.....

Source: Desmond Ike-Chima... https://enigerianews.com/how-peter-obi-abandoned-doyin-okupe-on-sick-bed/

Lol... "Okupe left LP to the APC where he found and felt loved!" ❤️

Nothing wey person nor go read from these hungry political bloggers...

IME1:
It is an interesting question.
Men are humans made in God's image. God is a faithful God. It was the woman that was deceived by Satan not man. It's not in the nature of men. Forget those people saying Solomon, David and co. Humans are not dogs or bitches. Men are not dogs. The wolf is from the dog family and go read about them wolves, really faithful to their partners like some other animals. It's a pity when I see women who can't stay with one man and be content and faithful. I know manh great men older than I am who have married only one wife. Some who would have been treat ended up being destroyed and poor because of the many troubles they brought upon their lives with many strange women. This is the truth of Solomon and David that those claiming Solomon and David will never tell you. I believe a woman should be faithful. I want men to be content, disciplined and wise to have one partner

No need to go all spiritual about it. The simple answer to why the majority of men can't stick to one woman is that it is in the nature of man to 'desire' a variety.

What the man eventually does with that 'desire' may be up for a different moral or social or religious or economic debate, but fact remains that regardless of how complete and wonderful his woman is, the man creature will always still desire a variety.

Nicenancy:
Why?

Variety!!

No matter how beautiful, sexy, well behaved and/or fantastic a man's partner is, men will always desire variety. It's just the nature of the man creature.

arusoncd:
Tinubu must lose in court, sole and his state of emergency without the national assembly is illegal

People seem to forget that the NASS is headed by one boisterous buffoon who happens to be a Tinubu sycophant.

The same courts that are all owned by Tinubu and his boys?

- Supreme court in the pocket!
- NASS headed by a useless Tinubu sycophant = In the pocket!
- INEC in the pocket!
- All armed forces in the pocket!
- CBN in the pocket!

By the time Tinubu is done with Nigeria, Nigeria would be a monarchy with an emperor at the helm.

I sympathise with people expecting to unseat Tinubu in 2027. Except the ultimate call of nature happens, Tinubu wouldnt even leave power in 2031.