The Bola tinubu revolution

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

I do not mean to be insensitive but it is good that many nigerians are now hungry due to policies embarked by bola tinubu.

My doctor asked me to lose weight because I suffer from central obesity which exposes me to 14 different types of cancers! 

So if nigerians are getting hungry and this in turn is reducing their waistline then its a welcome develoomentb if they become slim and trim. Migerias do not know how to eat.they eat and drink to dullnees.

To bellies full.this is bad.its unhealthy. Mam eats to live and not lives to eat.

. Next to quitting smoking weight loss is the best way of maintaining good health.we are also going to see a drastic reduction in liver problems with less consumption of beer and other alcoholic beverages. Lucky nigeria.when you became more healthy you become more productive and nigeria is richer for it.

Now beef,fish chicken has become more expensive out of the reach of so many nigerias it means less cases of cancer because cancer is the price you pay for eating flesh and diary products.

What do you eat? Lots of vegetables and fruits and less of the other stuff..a rainbow colour of vegetables.

So bola tinubu should provide vegetables and fruits to the people instead of rice and wheat.he should mobilise the vegetable and fruit firmers and embark on public enlightenment of healthy eating and personal finance.some of you can go onto the streets to sell books on healthy eating and personal finance bola tinubu is bring ing  about a revolution in personal finance and nutrition.the people must claim this revolution.for instance the women should start cooking with weights and measures in the kitchen and market women should also sell by weight and measures not by arbitrary values or portions.the people must claim the bola tinubu revolution.we should take to revolution to its logical end.revolutions are the locomotive of history so said Karl marx. .

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

Augustine!

Have mercy on us here in Nigeria.

How well were we eating before?

Google ''poverty capital of the world'' and tell us what you find.

My mind is overflowing with what I would like to respond to you, leaving me almost speechless.

People died during the APC induced naira scarcity during the elections. 

APC has continued with similar strategies with this style of removing fuel subsidy. 

In the drive against GEJ's attempted removal of fuel subsidy years ago, BAT presented a brilliant idea on how to use infrastructural  development in making removal of fuel subsidies a nation saving rather than a nation destroying strategy.

Such a realistic approach could take 5 to 10 years.

His party APC has chosen to remove it in one blow, with no preparations. 

Why?

As for the so-called palliatives, another idea I'm finding hard to respond to, so frightening it is.

Wages have generally not risen. Transport costs have risen. Fuel costs have escalated astronomically. Food prices have risen sharply.

Those who caused all that are offering  food, ostensibly to help us cope.

Factor in the huge population of Nigeria.

How much food can they give, for how long?

Meanwhile BAT and his fellow elected politicians roll in vast sums of the nation's money.

But, really, who are those ants to be crushed by govt policies? How relevant are they?

May the sun rise for Nigeria.

Right now, we are trying to find our way in the dark.

I would be happily shocked if this fuel subsidy removal initiative improves the well being of Nigerians.

toyin

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[Chika Okeke-Agulu]

It is stunning that Nigeria--with the bad reputation that has, rightly or wrongly, followed it at home and abroad, finds itself with a president who seems to have had no recorded past (in this day and age), before a documented criminal life in the US, and whose very identity and academic credentials are being adjudicated in a US court. The stain, the embarrassment of it all!

[cornelius...@gmail.com]

Think of all the bad times we’ve been through and, God willing, pulled out of each and every mess.

The Hebrew word is Bitachon, and a close Islamic equivalent is Tawakkul,  in essence, The Reliance of the Traveller, a far cry from The Incoherence of the Philosophers (not that something is or becomes “incoherent” because bird brain does not understand it

We  shouldn't be more worried than before , just because we are living at the very end of days; after all if we're at least relatively good, it’s 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 all good children go to heaven. So be good, because according to Pastor Femi Ogun the bad people and all those who do not or who have not accepted Jesus as their Lord and Saviour are all going to the other place known as ”the lake of fire”. 

Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan also says that all of God’s enemies are going to perish in THE LAKE OF FIRE, forever and ever. 

So, what is temporarily suffering some poverty here, made worse by little irritations such as no more fuel subsidy, the high cost of living, some hunger and starvation,  in this Vale of tears , what’s all that compared to  being downed, not in the Lagos Lagoon but in the lake of fire? 

According to the Quran, the fires of hell will be fuelled with stones and the bones of the disbelievers

Chika Okeke-Agulu’s frustration with President Tinubu, along with this Ghanaian bloke sounding off here, is a sign of the times and a symptom of the general collapse being witnessed everywhere  - indeed,” Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world” - look at what’s happening with former President Trump, once the most powerful man in the world, and in the United States, look at what’s happening in Sudan , watch ECOWAS threatening everlasting chaos in the Sahel, listen to al-Jazeera : Inside Story : Brics

see what just happened with Proghozin ( enough reason for Zelensky to be worried about The Furies) especially after Der Spiegel’s disclosures about Nord Stream

I just obeyed Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju’s executive order, I googled “poverty capital of the world” ;add to that what’s projected to be the population of Nigeria by the year 2050 and we should stop worrying about the past and at least start  - seriously - worrying - planning and preparing for the future.

With regard to that future the Jagaban has started off on a good footing with his focus on Food Security 

N.B. When it suits him Pastor Femi quotes his Bible that 1,000 years is like a day ( 24 hours) to the Lord ,so, literally, we are not necessarily living in “the last days” and Jesus who according to that calculation has only been gone for two days, is not necessarily coming back to rapture Femi Ogun & Co next tomorrow, or next year....

In today's Dagens Nyheter  an article by Björn Wiman begins,  “ The earth will not, of course, "go away", but it will gradually become more and more difficult to live on for more and more people."

Let us pray....

[ogunlakaiye]

So, bola tinubu should provide vegetables and fruits to the people (of Nigeria) instead of rice and wheat - Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth. Tinubu is not a farmer and old Nigerian farmers have retired from the farms after sending their children to schools who are now engaged in fierce competition with one another to share in the accrued petrol-dollar incomes from the Nigerian-run single product economy, crude oil export. In the Delta, farm lands and fishing ponds have been polluted with crude oil. The proliferation of cancer in the South-South geo-political zone in Nigeria is not as a result of consumptions of dairy products and meat but from the acid rain caused by gas flaring and environmental pollution caused by oil explorers in that area. Reading through the Nigeria Handbook of 1970 (p. 9-21) Nigeria is designed by nature to be paradise on earth for the inhabitants because of its  numerous agricultural and mineral resources listed therein. That led the then General Yakubu Gowon's Military Government to inaugurate the Nigerian Council for Science and Technology in May 1970. Eleven Federal Permanent Secretaries, one representative from each of the then twelve states and twelve academics in agricultural, experimental, industrial, medical and environmental sciences were members of the Nigerian Council for Science and Technology. 

Addressing the 35 members of the Nigerian Council for Science and Technology at Dodan Barracks on April 10, 1970, General Yakubu Gowon said among other things, "It is my hope that today will similarly symbolize the beginning of a great future for the development of science and technology and their application to the constructive exploitation and utilization of our natural resources. .... I am glad to note that the establishment of this Council has been acclaimed by all who appreciate the important role which science and technology can play in the promotion of the political, economic and social welfare of the people of this country."   One of the objectives of the Council according to item (c) shall be, "to ensure the application of the results of scientific activities to the development of agriculture, industry and social welfare in the Federation."  Two of the functions of the Council shall be (a) (i) "the application of the results of research and (ii) the transfer of technology into agriculture and industry."  Despite millions of pounds sterling pumped into Nigerian Council of Science and Technology at a time when money was not a constraint to Gowon, the Council members proved that they possessed certificates without knowledge which is why Nigeria is still where it is today. Ironically, the same incompetent intellectuals are demanding to consume what their certificates cannot produce. Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju is clamouring over withdrawal of fuel subsidy but he cares less about why the four Nigeria's oil refineries with total installed capacity to refine 445,000 barrels of crude oil per day have not been doing so despite billions of dollars of turn around maintenance spent on the refineries and the employed Nigerian Directors and Engineers, since 2007, have been collecting salaries and allowances for refining zero crude oil.

It is stunning that Nigeria - with the bad reputation that has, rightly or wrongly, followed it at home and abroad, finds itself with a president who seems to have had no recorded past (in this day and age) before a documented criminal life in the US, and whose very identity and academic credentials are being adjudicated in a US Court. The stain, the embarrassment of it all - Chika Okeke-Agulu. In their oversized academic gowns, Nigerian intellectual Oiks and literate oafs are used to churning out rubbish, lies and want the general public to accept them as valuables and truths. How can a person who was a governor of a state in Nigeria for eight years be said to have had no recorded past? Where is the documented criminal life in the US of the said president of Nigeria? What academic credentials is Chika Okeke-Agulu talking about with regards to presidential election in Nigeria, when the least qualification required to contest for an elected office, according to the Constitution of Nigeria, is for the contestant to satisfy the Electoral Commission of his/her proficiency in spoken and written English language? May Amadioha save Nigeria from lycanthropes!!

S. Kadiri

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

This might be Tinubus Moses moment.the Israelites asked moses why did you bring us out here?

Already 500 milion dollars has been approved for start ups there is more to come the ministers  have just been sworn in.calm down nigerians.everything would be well.nigeria is in the maternity ward a painful delivery. There is no pain without pain you cannot  make omelette  without breaking eggs so said tai solarin.may your road be rough.

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[gbemisoye tijani]

Got you .Got it  all what you said about Bola Tinubu  revolution .Rome isn't built in a day .We LL support  his programmes By His Grace as believers  ..

Despite Pandora s Box is already known to Nigerians & the global observers -- we ' ll hope  vehemently and chastise any politician who s not performing productively @ local &national levels  

Gbemi Tijani MST

Paul Harris Fellow 

former Unesco Club leader in the late  70s

Regional Coordinator 

HlC/ NMA project 

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

The issue is that BAT tendered a certificate from a US university which seems to be generating controversy, with even BAT and the university engaged in conflict over the content of the certificate, as I have read, although ive not looked closely at the issue. 

various things don't seem to be adding up with Tinubu.

its an important issue, but after the previous President entered into power while claiming he could not find his school leaving certificate, with the picture of this man giving a press conference to explain this while his VP designate, a professor of law and a senior advocate of nigeria sat at his side, such colossal congruities make me wonder if i should be agitated any more about such issues.

of course,  who needs a certification of formal education to lead Africa's most populous country and perhaps biggest economy?

the writer has been making clear that the certificates already gained are of no value given the sorry state of the country run by the certificated, so why not jettison such silly concerns over meaningless formal education and get to work in the knowledge economy defining the modern world?

is the education of the streets not enough? 

thanks

toyin

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[cornelius...@gmail.com]

Baba Kadiri,

I suppose that unlike you, being more preoccupied with Sweden - the looming Terror Alert , the Middle East, ECOWAS antics with regard to the coup in Niger, the war in Sudan, the military operation in Ukraine, miscarriage of justice in Pakistan, for three days running the BBC world headlines about the Spanish FIFA football boss kissing Jenni Hermoso etc making ordinary lovers wonder, “what’s in a kiss? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” - and you (Baba Kadiri) would have thought that all he (Luis Rubiales) would have had to say was like Bill Clinton wagging his forefinger instead of his big Cuban cigar : 

 “ I'm going to say this again:

 I  Slick Willy 

did not have sexual relations with that woman, 

Miss Lewinsky.

I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people”...

And so I suppose that unlike you, I, being more preoccupied with all of the above is a good enough reason why I haven’t had time to scour the www jungle like a vulture scavenging for a glimpse / glimpses of what’s going on in the Nigeria World in real time. Of course, for a more nuanced/accurate idea one would have to scratch or dig below the surface, beyond the varnish of diehard Tinubu-ites (no matter what) and the sour grapes doggerel of the partisan press , these days consisting largely of the hopefuls among Peter Obi loyalists, not to mention the hack writers and foot soldiers in Alhaji Atiku’s camp praying ardently for signs and a miracle , some Divine Intervention whereby good fortune shall be made to smile on the Alhaji, and since “with God all things are possible”, against all odds - although Pastor Olusegun Obasanjo had declared publicly, “God will never forgive me if I support Atiku for president”, God has possibly already forgiven Baba Obasanjo the sinner and miscreant and possibly the Nigerian Judiciary will look upon Alhaji Atiku’s  election petition favourably and declare Alhaji Atiku the winner of the last presidential elections, something that would be bound to annoy the Obidients who claim that Obi came second, speak less of ASIWAJU the real winner, Bola Tinubu, the Jagaban ! 

Anyway, many thanks for your apt response to Chika Okeke-Agulu who it seems has joined the ranks of doomsday preachers, God-forsaken nihilists, along with 419 artists/ conmen,  inadvertent contributors to giving Nigeria a bad name when they deliberately distort the truth and out of either frustration, despair or sheer malice, do not care about the consequences to the Naija nation’s reputation. Hence we are liable to read this kind of nonsense written by him, a son of the soil  - from Umuahia where I was baptised ( full immersion) :

“It is stunning that Nigeria - with the bad reputation that has, rightly or wrongly, followed it at home and abroad, finds itself with a president who seems to have had no recorded past (in this day and age) before a documented criminal life in the US, and whose very identity and academic credentials are being adjudicated in a US Court. The stain, the embarrassment of it all “ ( Chika Okeke-Agulu.)

Since I have a lot of personal experience from reading Torah commentaries ( many) and disambiguating poetry ( for myself of course) let me dissect it (Chika Okeke-Agulu’s lamentation) a little as if  - God forbid , it was a few lines of Torah or  worse still another “Gospel” in the public domain this time in the spirit of Yirmiyahu /Jeremiah,  the Gospel of what’s happening in God’s Kingdom of  Nigeria according to Chika Okeke-Agulu…

As a preface to his deliberate & ill-concealed venom he begins “ It is stunning “ - pretending to be “stunned”, knowing full well Solomon’s saying ,” There’s nothing new under the sun”

You have dealt expertly with his false / fake claim that the former two-term Governor of Lagos who during his tenure of that office perfomed some economic miracles, ”seems to have had no recorded past (in this day and age “ - like the title Pat Maddy's’ bit of pessimism “ No Past, No Present, No Future”

However, unless he says something to the contrary we could give Professor Okeke-Agulu the benefit of the doubt and you could forgive him, as what he could have had in mind was what he may sincerely believe to be Mr. President’s lack of an incontestable, distinguished academic record, beyond any controversy etc etc ….and that’s what colonialism has done to some of us  - they demand that their president should be a Rhodes Scholar like  Bill Clinton, you ask one of them a simple question such as “ How are you?” - and in replying to that everyday question he has to quote Plato : “The unexamined life is not worth living”

As for Togonu-Bickersteth ( St. Augustine) and the revolutionary path he would like the JAGABAN to follow,  it seems that he would much prefer the Halal Beef eaters to all embrace the Universal Hindu Principle :NO BEEF  -by becoming vegetarians ( like George Bernard Shaw .

And then what would happen to the Fulani Herdsmen  and their livelihood, the Fulani Cattle? 

And what would be the future of Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju’s best friends in the organisation known as Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria ?

[Toyin Falola]

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[Chika Okeke-Agulu]

"the least qualification required to contest for an elected office, according to the Constitution of Nigeria, is for the contestant to satisfy the Electoral Commission of his/her proficiency in spoken and written English language." S. Kadiri

S. Kadiri, except we read different Nigerian constitutions, here is actually what is says:

Chapter 6, Part 1, Section 131 (1)
A person shall be qualified for election to the office of the President if –

(To be qualified for election to the office of the President, a person should; )

Section 131 (1a-d)
(a) he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth;

(b) he has attained the age of forty years;
(c) he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and
(d) he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2023/08/25/tinubu-chicago-university-liable-for-discrepancies-in-my-certificate

https://prnigeria.com/2022/11/17/fact-check-tinubu/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/alleged-drug-case-why-tinubu-forfeited-460000-in-us-apc-tells-court/

I am not sure ANY country deserves a leader with this much mystery and secrecy over his or her biography. 

[Augustine Togonu-Bickersteth]

I would say ethics not certificate  that's if I understand the question Prof Toyin Falola. The purpose of education is to produce good  citizens not good business  men to take a cue from the British psychologist  ,Oliver  James in his book ,Affluenza

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[ogunlakaiye]

The writer has been making clear that the certificates already gained are of no value given the sorry state of the country run by the certificated, so why not jettison such silly concerns over meaningless formal education and get to work in the knowledge economy defining the modern world? Is the education of the street not enough, asked Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju?

We cannot ignore the fact that Nigeria is not only a crude oil exporter but a possessor of four crude oil refineries with total installed capacity to refine 445,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The refineries are manned by Nigerians possessing sophisticated academic qualifications with acronyms depicting them as experts in crude oil refinery. Since 1998, the refineries have undergone turned around maintenance for billions of dollars without refining a kettle of crude oil. Instead, the nation has been overwhelmed by a clique of fuel importers. It is not the intelligence quotients (IQ) but the high rate of stupidity quotients (SQ) of Nigerians that should be measured with regards to the export of crude oil and importation of fuel. Nigeria exports yams and imports pounded yam at subsidised rate so that Nigerians can afford to eat pounded yam!! Call out those Directors and Engineers at  Nigeria's Crude oil refineries and let them justify their emoluments for not refining any crude oil after billions of dollars spent on turn around maintenance of the refineries. Ikeja, where Mr. Adepoju told us on this forum that he resides is the seat of the Lagos State Government. Sometime ago, Mr. Adepoju complained that he had lacked power supply for weeks in his residence, a general phenomena for all Nigerians. Every household generates its own electricity through imported noisy and poison fuming generators. The power sector, for decades, has generated many acronyms beginning with ECN, then NEPA and later PHCN. The power sector reform was launched by President Dr Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos on August 26, 2010. Thus, in August 2013, 15 companies merged up into 10 Distributing Companies and five Generating Companies known under the acronyms, DISCOs and GENCOs respectively. GENCOs and DISCOs were said to have paid $2.238 billion to take over 60% of unbundled PHCN after the federal government had injected $15 billion of tax-payers money into it. But who were the new investors and owners of GENCOs and DISCOs? They were mostly PDP stalwarts led by Professor Jerry Ghana. Nigerian professors are proud of producing darkness for Nigerians and billing them for presumptive electric light consumptions.

As it is publicly known, Bola Ahmed Tinubu's education, as well as a civil case involving his two bank accounts in the US in 1993 were properly scrutinised and settled in 1999, when his constitutional rights to contest for the governorship of Lagos State were brought up. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was never convicted of any crime in the US  and for his education, the then Registrar of Chicago State University, Lois Davis, in a letter dated and signed on August 20, 1999 affirmed, "Please be advised that Bola A. Tinubu did indeed attend Chicago State University from August 1977 through June 1979. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with honours on June 22, 1979. His major was Accounting." Those are the facts but intellectuals from neo-Goebel's paradise continue to talk about Bola Ahmed Tinubu's doubtful educational background and his presumed conviction in the US in 1993.

Professor Okeke-Agulu made reference to Section 131 (d) of the 1999 constitution to dispute my assertion earlier that the least required qualification to contest for the Presidency in Nigeria is for the candidate to satisfy the electoral commission that he/she can communicate fluently in written and spoken English language. Had Professor Okeke-Agulu read Part IV, article 318(1) of the Interpretation Section of the 1999 Constitution  as amended he would have restrained himself from making erroneous correction. Clarifying the meaning given by the framers of Section 131 (d) requiring any candidate for election to the office of the President 'to have been educated to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent,' the framers of the Constitution are understood to have meant the possession of any of the following credentials : (a) a Secondary School Certificate or its equivalent, or Grade II Teacher's Certificate, the City and Guilds Certificate; or  (b) Primary Six School Leaving Certificate or its equivalent and (i) Service in the public or private sector in the Federation in any capacity acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for a minimum of ten years, and (ii) attendance at courses and training in such institutions as may be acceptable to the Independent National Electoral Commission for periods totalling up to a minimum of one year, and (iii) the ability to read, write, understand and communicate in the English language to the Satisfaction of the Independent National Electoral Commission; and (d) any other qualification acceptable by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The mistake of Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu in limiting his reading of the Constitution to Section 131(d) in respect of required qualifications to contest for the presidency in Nigeria is similar to the misreading of the Nigerian constitution Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe committed as President of Nigeria when after the December 1964 Federal Election, he refused to call on Tafawa Balewa to form the government after the electoral commission had declared NNA winner of the election. Constitutionally titled, Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, President Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, proposed to suspend the government, annul the elections and appoint an interim government to conduct new elections with the backing of the military and the police. In January 1965, the President Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe found himself under house arrest since under the Royal Nigerian Army Act (no. 26 of 1960) and Royal Nigerian Navy Act (no,9 of 1960) still in force then, placed the Army and the Navy respectively under the general authority of the Defence Minister in matters of command, discipline and administration. The Council of Ministers and Prime Minister, but not the PRESIDENT, despite his title as Commander in Chief, were vested with authority for the operational use and control of the armed forces. The President, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, at last called on Abubakar Tafawa Balewa to form government and shortly afterwards he went on medical vacation from which he did not return until after January 15, 1966 coup. Conclusively, I will say that Professor Chika Agulu-Okeke has read the Nigerian Constitution selectively to satisfy his presumed belief.

S. Kadiri