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As of yesterday, March 24, Brent Crude - class of petroleum abundant in Nigeria, sold for $25/barrel. Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum said it costs the nation about $15 to drill and ship a barrel of crude oil. What this implies is that Nigeria's revenue is just about $10/barrel today at the current $25/barrel price. Often revenue from crude oil sold today will be not be cashed until about a month or two. What this is saying is that the revenue the Federal government of Nigeria is spending today was from petroleum sold around January to February 2020, when crude oil sold for between $50 and $60 per barrel. About 65% of Nigeria's revenue comes from petroleum - the remainder comes from taxes and tariffs at our border. The latter is seriously diminished in the wake of covid-19. The 2020 budget in Nigeria was based on $57/barrel. What this implies is that revenue from petroleum will reduce by about 76% by the beginning of May 2020, government across ever...

I am directing this message to my folks in Nigeria and the rest of Africa, that you should all take the necessary precautionary steps - add WORK to your faith in the wake of CORONA-VIRUS (covid-19) Pandemic. There is no need for PANIC even though it is a reality that is staring all of us in the face and we need to take all the steps necessary to be safe. I am not saying you should not use your faith but also use your common sense. The Chinese and Italian experiences should make any smart person listen to professional advice. I have seen all kinds of videos of people binding and commanding coronavirus from entering Nigeria - it is in Nigeria already. Some are prescribing special prayer solutions - praying over saltwater five times and saying certain scriptures into the water as if one is saying an incantation. The virus spreads through contact, and you must take steps that will prevent yourself and members of your families from being infected. People who are immunocompromised ...

Nigerians abroad have debunked the notion of the inferiority of African mental acumen. They have conquered in every facet of life they have been given a chance and they continue to defy every stereotype. For centuries, Africans have been touted as people with small brains, incapable of assimulating complex endeavors and primitive. African leaders who were installed as puppets by the colonial masters have not helped the situation, they have siphoned the wealth of the continent with the connivance of their western collaborators. The continent and its people have become beggars before the western nations who have turned them to projects they use to conjure money from among themselves in the name of charity where as much as 70 - 80% of the money raised for African charity goes into overhead. They show images of hungry kids crying to move people to donate, and when you appear in their country, they look at you with pity in light of poor children they see on television who is seeking a ha...

Even though most medical practitioners and fertility professionals claim there is nothing one can do to guarantee having a male child, however, there is a simple technique that can be tried by the parents seeking a male child. We tried it and it worked for us. The process of having a baby is when a man and woman come together in a physical union called mating or coitus. The male organ-penis goes into the female vagina, and at the climax, the male releases millions of cells (sperm) in a fluid called semen, into the female vagina. These sperm cells now travel through the vagina and cervix into the uterus or Fallopian tubes for fertilization of the female egg also referred to as ovum. Out of the several millions of sperm released (as many as 600 million sometimes), often, only one succeeds in fertilizing the egg at conception. This is what grows into a baby. How do you ensure it is the male sperm that fertilizes the ovum? 1. Work with the female ovulation cycle Couples who m...

The WEAPON that is Hacking Democracy - Alternative Facts. When I was very young, 8, 9 10 years old, I was interested in political talk. I would listen with keen interest when my father, a very intelligent man, would analyze political ideology. Often, there are two sides, UPN and NPN in 2nd the republic Nigeria, SDP and NRC in the 3rd republic Nigeria, now PDP and AD/ANC/APC in the fourth republic - at a point in time, it is always true that one side is lying and the other side on truth. Then I read about Adolf Hitler, how he used propaganda to sell lies to convince Germans that they were a superior race and that the rest of the world should bow to them and the Jews were the only threat and they were all indirectly sentenced to death and he murdered them in millions with the help of his countrymen. Any dissent opinion was silenced in anyway Hilter could - the lies were spread so much that it was NORMALIZED. There is a DANGER when lies are normalized. Since, then, ma...

For 16 years, Nigerians believed that their problem was a political party called PDP. The other side agitated for those 16 years to wrestle power from PDP and many of us supported them. That other side has been in power for almost 5 years now, and things have gone from bad to worse compared to the PDP years. The money APC government has borrowed in 5 years is multiple of what PDP borrowed in 16 years, and the economy has gone down the drain. Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world, and millions of children are out of school, there are no hospitals, unemployment is double digits and it has remained so for the better part of Buhari's time in office. The security situation has gone worse because the president is complicit due to the involvement of his kinsmen - he has shown zero will to tackle the problem decisively. The consequences of this is crack in the wall of the entity called Nigeria - with Amotekun launch in the South West and the US ban of Nigerians from ce...

Nigeria is ranked third on the Global Terrorism Index, behind Iraq and Afghanistan - The Verdict was released on Jan 16, 2020: 1. "...whereas Nigeria ranks third out of 163 countries on the Global Terrorism Index behind Iraq and Afghanistan, making it the third in the list of countries most affected by terrorism;...." 2. "whereas although President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killings and urged the population not to become divided along religious lines, these attacks have been carried out with total impunity, with perpetrators rarely being held to account; .." 3. Willful NEGLIGENCE on the path of security agencies - yet Buhari has not sacked his incompetent service chiefs, something is fishy, READ "...whereas an Amnesty International report has demonstrated wilful negligence by the Nigerian Security Forces concerning the deadly attacks against farmers’ communities;" 4. Over 6,000 Christians have perished i...