On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 2:40 AM, Chukwuemeka Okala<reu...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:This is heartbreaking and urgent.
A student from University of Jos, JOHN ARUM has been kidnapped while traveling to Kaduna. A disturbing video was recorded with his own phone and sent to his school WhatsApp group chat. Since then, there has been no clear contact with his family, and we don’t even know if they are aware yet.
The kidnappers are demanding ₦30 million.
Worse still, from what we saw in the video, he is going through serious torture and abuse. This is inhumane. No one deserves to be treated like this.
Reports indicate he was kidnapped by Fulani criminals. This is why the government must act decisively to get rid of criminal networks terrorizing innocent Nigerians, regardless of who they are.
This is not just a story this is someone we know. Someone we attend classes with. Someone whose life is now in danger.
We are calling on everyone to help share this information across platforms so it can reach his family and the appropriate authorities quickly. Time is critical.
Please don’t ignore this.
Share it.
Raise awareness.
Let’s do everything we can to help bring John back safely.
#SaveJohnArum
#StopKidnapping
#EndInsecurity
#NigeriaSecurity
#PrayForJohn
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Son Of A Rumuji Prostitute Called George Kerley:Your Rumuji prostituting mother was serving her pussy to all Fulani Herders in Port Harcourt during Jonathan Badluck's failed administration, just like your thieving sister who stole billions of dollars and Naira from Nigeria called Diezani Alison who is currently waiting for her long term in prison sentence in London.Your brother called Jonathan Badluck looted Nigeria alongside your thieving sister. They emptied Nigerian treasuries. Jonathan left only $12 billion in Nigeria's foreign reserves from $45 billion he met. He bankrupted Nigeria, despite Nigeria's oil selling for $125 per barrel. Common workers' salaries, he couldn't pay as of February 2015 until Buhari swept him away from Aso Rock. He plunged Nigeria into economic crisis after mortgaging Nigeria's economy. The dumy left Nigeria with massive debts owed to China, France, Germany, United States, the IMF and the World Bank in collaboration to your aunt call Okonjo Iweala who failed Economics and was granted a defective PhD. He also plunged Nigeria into untold terrorism and insecurity that Nigeria is currently facing today. I told he will never be president of Nigeria again in this lifetime.You're a shame and an utter disgrace to your family and your entire South South.
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>>I didn’t know you were this dumb even though I suspected it<< (GK), I thought I was the only one who Femi Olajide annoys with his absolute thoughtlessness and mentally retarded-like sophistry. It is a relief to now find out that a gentleman (relative to Nebu) George Kerley is as human as Nebu -- as to be irritated by Femi Olajide who exhibits absolute stupidity whenever he masquerades as a Yoruba! I had to block emails from Femi Olajide in order to not read his annoying fawning over and excusing of the inadequacies of the Tinubu regime in the name of Yoruba tribalism. I concluded that he is spurred by Yoruba tribalism (even though he is Ishan) because he is not as thoughtless and stupid when the subject matter has nothing to do with Tinubu and APC.
GK, welcome to my years' long enduring of the disgusting outputs of Femi Olajide and his twin brother in idiocy, Kayode Adebammuọjọ. Ironically, Femi Olajide used to educate, correct, and put the Deranged Ape in his thoughtless place on most matters until they reached a meeting place: Tinubu and APC since 2023.Tufiakwa!Nebukadineze Adiele
>>I didn’t know you were this dumb even though I suspected it<< (GK)
Son Of A Rumuji Prostitute Called George Kerley:
Your clueless and dumb creek brother called Jonathan Badluck has finally admitted he committed unforgivable blunders during his administration. The dummy was completely clueless. I sent him and his defective PhD holder called Ngozi Okonjo strategies to turn Nigeria's economy around, by diversifying Nigeria's economy away from Oil, to Digital Technology and Startups, Solid Minerals, Advanced Agriculture and Food Processing, Ranching, World Financial Center, Tourism and others in-between, when Nigeria was earning $125 per barrel of oil and I introduced Startup Companies in Nigeria among Nigeria's youths who are the future of Nigeria. The dummy and his defective PhD holder had no clue how to implement my strategies and eventually crashed Nigeria's economy. Same thing with strategies for combating terrorism and insecurity. Your dumb brother was always high as the sky every weekend at Aso Rock with his eyes red, after marathon of Sapele Water consumption.You're a shame and an utter disgrace to your prostituting mother.Kayode
Schizophrenic Son Of A Rumuji Prostitute Called George Kerley:Ask your prostituting mother wherever I'm Kayode or not. She will tell you.Your dumb creek senior brother called Jonathan Badluck was an epic fail. He was a disaster. He is responsible for what's happening in Nigeria today.Kayode
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24 April 2026 3:15 am WAT

President Bola Tinubu
By Chinwendu Obienyi
President Bola Tinubu has sought Senate approval for a fresh $516.3 million external loan, pushing total borrowing requests under his administration beyond $30 billion. The move is intensifying concerns over Nigeria’s rising debt profile and its limited impact on economic stability.
The latest request, read on the floor of the Senate by Senate President Godswill Akpabio, is aimed at financing sections of the proposed Sokoto–Badagry superhighway, a 1,000-kilometre project designed to link key commercial corridors from the North-West to the South-West.
According to the request, the facility, to be arranged by Deutsche Bank AG, is expected to support early phases of construction, with additional backing from the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit.
While the government has framed the project as critical infrastructure under its Renewed Hope Agenda, analysts say the broader pattern of borrowing reflects deeper fiscal challenges.
Since assuming office in 2023, Tinubu has repeatedly turned to both domestic and external markets to bridge budget deficits, with cumulative loan requests now estimated at over $30 billion, alongside more than N1 trillion in domestic borrowing plans.
Commenting on the latest development, economic experts warn that the pace of borrowing could worsen Nigeria’s already fragile debt sustainability metrics. With government revenue underperforming, a significant share of earnings is already being used to service existing obligations, leaving limited room for developmental spending.
Furthermore, citizens are of the opinion that there is little progress. According to them, taking a $516 million loan for a road while the common man struggles is heartbreaking.
A development enthusiast named Sankara on X (formerly twitter) asked, “Is this country so broke that every èke market day, a request to borrow from somewhere must be submitted to the ‘elementary’ National Assembly?
What is happening to the humongous declaration of revenue generated or the already collected loans?”
Head, Research at FSL Securities, Chiazor Victor said, “The concern is not just the borrowing itself, but the capacity to repay without crowding out essential sectors.
The risks are particularly pronounced for foreign loans, which are denominated in dollars. Continued volatility in the naira could significantly raise repayment costs, especially as Nigeria’s foreign exchange (FX) earnings remain heavily dependent on oil exports”.
The growing debt burden comes at a time when government spending has yet to deliver meaningful relief to households. Despite a surge in food imports and multiple fiscal interventions, food prices remain elevated across the country, highlighting a disconnect between policy measures and real economic outcomes.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show that food and beverage imports rose sharply from N3.83 trillion in 2023 to N6.58 trillion in 2024, reaching N7.65 trillion in 2025. This increase has been driven in part by government efforts to stabilise supply through importation, including a temporary zero-duty policy on selected food items.
However, these measures have had limited success in easing price pressures. Food inflation, while moderating from peak levels of over 40 per cent in 2024, still stood at 14.31 per cent year-on-year (y/y) as of March 2026, contributing significantly to overall inflation of about 15.38 per cent.
In parallel, direct fiscal interventions have also expanded. Government spending on food palliatives reached N9.74 billion in 2024, following an earlier N185 billion intervention in 2023 to support the distribution of grains across states. Yet, market surveys indicate that affordability remains a major challenge for households, particularly in urban centres.
Victor argued that the persistence of high food prices despite rising public expenditure points to structural inefficiencies in the economy, including supply chain constraints, insecurity in farming regions, and currency weakness. “Importing food is a short-term fix, but it does not address the underlying productivity issues in agriculture”, he said.
Chief Executive Officer, Cowry Asset Management Ltd, Johnson Chukwu warned that Nigeria’s rising borrowing could swell external debt by over 50 per cent, cautioning that loans must be efficiently deployed or risk becoming a fiscal burden.
“I have said this before, borrowing is not inherently bad. What is important is if the money borrowed is used to address the problem.
If borrowed funds are invested in assets that generate value higher than the value of the loan, then it is worth it,” he said.
He urged the government to prioritise partnerships with the private sector for infrastructure projects to reduce costs, enhance efficiency, and ensure better value for money.
For investors, the combination of rising debt and weak transmission of fiscal policy raises concerns about Nigeria’s medium-term outlook. Higher borrowing levels could increase the country’s risk profile, potentially leading to more expensive financing in the future.
As the Senate considers the latest loan request, attention is likely to focus not just on the viability of the Sokoto–Badagry project, but on the broader question of how effectively borrowed funds are being deployed.
For now, the trajectory suggests a government balancing urgent infrastructure needs against tightening fiscal constraints, an approach that economists say will require careful management to avoid long-term macroeconomic strain.
On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 11:18 AM, Gee Kay<gke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>It is a relief to now find out that a gentleman (relative to Nebu) George Kerley is as human as Nebu -- as to be irritated by Femi Olajide who exhibits absolute stupidity whenever he masquerades as a Yoruba!<< (Nebu)
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GK,Be careful to not capitulate to these dumb Bantus simply because they float fake figures that they don't understand or they reel out senseless and dishonest cliches, most of which they googled but did not understand. For example, Femi Olajide stupidly claims as follows:
>>What GK doesn't understand about a good economy is that you never subsidize consumption, but you can subsidize production<<.
Femi's claim above is false and shows that he is an economics ignoramus, contrary to the appearance he has put up on these forums since he showed up. Governments can/do subsidize consumption in order to increase demand, raise equilibrium with no negative impact on productivity, and ensure affordability of goods and services for all, especially for the poor and relatively poor. For example, most governments of the world subsidized vaccine production and food consumption (through vouchers to citizens) during the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic for the reasons I mentioned above and it paid off -- it minimized deaths, speeded up the production and availability of enough vaccines, and saved people from starving since most people, especially the very poor, were out of work.On the other hand, governments can/do subsidize production in order to raise supply, prevent high consumer prices, ward off dependance on importation, etc. There is absolutely nothing that the Tinubu presidency is doing so far to achieving any of these goals since it came to office. To the contrary, he has recklessly removed subsidy on petroleum products without any evidence of the removed subsidy having any positive impact on the economy, but has instead impoverished the citizens by over 400%. There is no evidence that his administration has subsidized production, especially in electric power generation, which would lower costs of production and spur other areas of economic activity and social life in Nigeria. Other than subsidizing road construction, where the contractors are his firms and those of his friend's and family members, most Ministries are starved of funds by the Tinubu presidency. Security apparatuses in Nigeria should be incentivized with subsidy due to the serious security problems in Nigeria, yet Tinubu has not done so but Femi Olajide is stupidly considering this administration as doing anything positive for the Nigerian economy and peoples? He removed backing the naira, something that more stable economies like China, Russia, Brazil, Japan, India, etc. do with their currencies, yet Femi Olajide et al consider this man as loving Nigeria, as opposed to his leading it to the abyss?On matters of the Tinubu presidency, Femi Olajide and others debate like high school dropouts, so you can never make any headways with them -- they are driven by Yoruba tribalism, even though he and the Deranged Ape are only Yoruba wannabes. If you wish to continue to debate them over Tinubu, you must not give them any room to expressing the type of stupidity and semi-literacy cited above (from Femi Olajide) and getting away away with so doing. The Nigerian economy has been reduced to the ranks of those of South Sudan, Sudan, Eritrea. Somalia, Burundi, and Haiti by the Tinubu presidency. To the contrary, Nigeria was the largest economy in Africa under president Jonathan whom these Yoruba triallists are stupidly abusing.There is no debating these idiots, tufiakwa!Nebukadineze Adiele