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As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu marks three years in office, he argues that Nigeria is turning a corner and is better off today than when he assumed office. He points to improvements in the stock market , growth in external reserves, fiscal reforms , and endorsements from international financial institutions as evidence of progress. However, many Nigerians view the situation differently. While macroeconomic indicators may show signs of improvement, the daily reality for millions of citizens tells another story. Rising poverty, declining purchasing power , insecurity , unemployment , and the high cost of living continue to define life for many households. Economic statistics alone cannot adequately measure the well-being of a nation. The true test of government performance is whether the lives of ordinary citizens are improving. The Collapse of Purchasing Power Perhaps the most visible impact of the last three years is the dramatic decline in the purchasing power of Nigerians. Ma...

Both have done egregious things... One has admitted those he believed were true, and apologized... And he has a history of PTSD from laying down his life to fight in stupid wars created by those attacking him... PTSD could cause the best of us to turn to animals, sometimes to the point of taking their own lives or those of others, become an alcoholic , exhibit irrational social behavior, including infidelity , and so forth... Here is the other guy who is the president who has NEVER ever admitted doing anything wrong in his life, despite many open records - audio, video, written, evidence of thousands of wrongdoing...he boasted grabbing women in the private parts, he convicted of assaulting a woman in a civil case, accused of sleeping with a prostitute while his wife was pregnant and paid the prostitute to keep quiet when he was runinng for president. He has never admitted any of the horrible behaviors.. He continues to have the backing of the majority of evangelicals . He has a cult f...

It is idiotic for any nation to accept citizens of another nation infected with a highly infectious disease that they have ZERO cases of, simply because the nation making the request does not want the disease to spread in their homeland. The motivation for the demand is that they have provided a significant amount of aid to the country for decades, so they should accept their diseased citizens... This is the offer being made to Kenya with ZERO Ebola cases, and they accepted the request. Sensible people within their judiciary have blocked the process... but they will take the Western citizens with Ebola anyway because many African leaders do not respect their judiciary, even in a democracy. Sometimes, I wonder how power imbalance, corruption fueled by greed, and slave mentality remove the remaining sense in some African leaders... why in the world will any country accept this nonsense? It cannot happen in Nigeria... it can only happen in Kenya... soon, their president, Ruto , will say...

"Black people cannot rule themselves because they don't have the brain and mental capacity to govern a society. Give them guns, they will kill themselves. Give them power, they will steal all the government money. Give them independence and democracy, they will use it to promote tribalism, ethnicity, bigotry, hatred, killings and wars" _  Purportedly by Pieter Willem Botha, of South Africa, 1988.  First, there is no proof that Botha said this. However, there is a possibility that this is a common belief among European South Africans, including mainstream Europeans today... We see it and read it in their body language, and what you see on the continent corroborate the same. Here is the fact, that this is a MOLD created by some Europeans (/White men/ Caucasians) for Africans. That is not who we were and are... In traditional African settings , we love ourselves and we have governed ourselves for centuries before the intrusion of European colonialists... Africans are the m...

I listened to a podcast by a Nigerian who wrote about President Buhari's government and who really was in control. He revealed that banditry has become a criminal enterprise in Nigeria, with nearly a hundred bandit groups ready for hire to carry out the wishes of their benefactors. That major actors within government at every level contract them to carry out their wishes at will.    THREE days after Governor Seyi Makinde declared to run for president of Nigeria , bandits struck in his state. This has never happened before in the southwestern part of Nigeria . NEVER...   When politics becomes a do-or-die affair , and the people become the pim-pom ball that politicians are playing, we have entered a dark era in Nigerian politics .    What is the level of support the Federal security apparatus is providing to the Oyo State government to end this quickly? A teacher was beheaded this morning among the captives. State governors are handicapped in providing securit...

Bill Maher , the atheist, flip-flop, comedian's blind support and justification of Israel atrocities on Palestinians is bewildering. This is an atheist who does not believe in God, but claim god promised Israelis the Palestinian land... which of the gods is he talking about...? The one that does not exist in his brain...? He claims IDF's atrocities in Gaza is not the worst we are seeing... True, but not with my tax money, definitely not a country who claims high moral ground for attempting to throw away the baby with the bath water. These other crazy terrorists who kill innocent people do not claim any moral ground, and they are not prosecuting their atrocities with Americans taxpayers money... We must condemn atrocities wherever it is been perpetuated - in the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, DRC , Iran, Afghanistan, including decades long atrocities in Gaza and West Bank .... wherever evil people are killing the innocents... we need to call them out as objective global citizen...