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@iyaboawokoya @thecableindex True however, the debt accumulated by previous govts had certain moratorium that is/are now crystallizing. That debt been serviced were not acquired by this govt. Now pity govts after Tinubu in his own debts aren't cleared before he leaves. Thats the needed context.

@thecableindex Statistics without context is just deception. GEJ had not much debt to service. OBJ had secured a debt forgiveness-Paris fund.

Nigeria's actual external debt service payments by presidential administration (2010-2025) Goodluck Jonathan: $1.64bn 2010: $354.42m 2011: $351.62m 2012: $293m 2013: $298.33m 2014: $346.72m Muhammad Buhari: $10.03bn 2015: $331.06m 2016: $353.09m 2017: $464.05m 2018: $1.47bn 2019: $1.33bn 2020: $1.56bn 2021: $2.11bn 2022: $2.41bn Bola Tinubu: $13.31bn 2023: $3.50bn 2024: $4.66bn 2025: $5.15bn #TheCableIndex

A former minister..... Shame. The "Delulu" is laughable.

@bamwinejnr Yes.

If Man City loses on Wednesday and we beat Burnley do we immediately take the trophy?

@Farakay41 It is deliberate ignorance to please a mob.

This was actually the metaphor that made it very clear he was intelligent. Only an educated and informed person will understand the metaphor. Tweets like this further raise deep questions about the intellectual capacity of our average student/graduate.

So the world is also legalizing holding over $3m worth of crack too? Again, N6 fell off badly. Wonder where it all went wrong.

@GRVlagos Recall what happened in Ibadan during the coalition event..... Where was your voice?

Does the APC in Lagos have any sense of decency or competence? Why should everyone on the Island be trapped in traffic simply because of your summit at TBS? This is utterly ridiculous. Madness, even. First, you have a Commissioner for Transport, you control LASTMA, and you have the RRS under your influence, yet you still cannot manage simple traffic flow around your own event? Secondly, between Marina and Bonny Camp, there are several parking facilities — both public and private. Doesn’t common sense suggest that arrangements should have been made with these parking lots so buses conveying your members could park properly while traffic continues to flow? Is basic competence too much to ask for? Shame on all of you.

@Bamtefa_Adedapo @GRVlagos The coalition event in Ibadan, the market visit in Ibadan pulled traffic that disrupted people's plans..... Maybe he will say Ibadan isn't a city.

@GRVlagos Are you just being mischievous? TBS host experience and many major gatherings every year and traffic is always hectic. Do you know is better to keep your mouth shut and let people speculate you are an idiot than to Open it and confirm you really are an idiot?

Chief, All applicants i know with similar delay got their passports on the back of this escalation from you. They all got denied. These are people who have spent at least 5 days in France every year for the past 10 years. Clearly, the new Consular Manager (a lady) appears to have an issue with Nigerians. Lol

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you @FranceInNigeria, you are far too kind. J'aurais écrit ceci en français, mais mon français n'est pas assez fort pour ce que je ressens à ce sujet. S'il vous plait. Merci. My passport has been returned by @FranceInNigeria. Eight (8) weeks they held it. In their characteristic generosity toward Africans, they have issued me a visa for six (6) weeks. Let me be clear about what this means in context. This is the shortest Schengen visa I have ever received from the French Embassy. My first, over a decade ago, was six months. The one before this lasted a year. The one before that, a year. There is a four-year Schengen visa somewhere in my records. On the very passport now graced with this extraordinary six-week stamp sit multiple-year visas from the United States, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Canada. Six weeks. For eight weeks of custody. The mathematics of French generosity toward Africa is its own genre. Thank you @EmmanuelMacron. I know people who got their passports back after my first tweet on this matter. One had hers held for five weeks (5). It came back without a visa. No stamp. Just a passport returned having contributed nothing to her life but five weeks of immobility. Thankfully, they did not minute on it; a small mercy in an otherwise graceless process. Graceful, I meant to write. This is not new territory for me. My very first engagement with the French Embassy over a decade ago ended in a visa rejection that came with written text stamped directly onto my passport. I wrote them a four-page letter demanding they never deface a Nigerian passport that way again; mine or anyone else's. I want to acknowledge that they have honoured that. Some things, at least, can be changed by speaking clearly. Some bad faith readers will conclude this six-week visa is punishment for calling them out publicly. I reject that interpretation entirely. I prefer to see it as consistent with France's broader approach to the continent — an approach the France-Africa Summit in Nairobi will no doubt reaffirm with great warmth, generous speeches, and many photographs. A pattern, not an anomaly. I will be writing a full article next week to express my appreciation to @FranceInAfrica in the spirit this moment deserves. I write this ready to bear whatever consequences follow. But I will write. After all, it's a love letter. Merci beaucoup. cc @NigeriaMFA @BTOofficial @Ojukwu_Bianca @France24 @abikedabiri @francediplo_EN @GermanyInAfrica @officialABAT @WilliamsRuto @CNNAfrica @BBC @FRANCE24 @ARISEtv @DW_GMF @dwnews

@Pres_Adebayo Who are you please???

President Tinubu the autocrat has sent his goons to invade the SDP National Secretariat a day after I completed my presidential primary election screening. Tinubu, James Faleke, Joash Amupitan have perfected a plan to disrupt the SDP nomination process to prevent my emergence as SDP Presidential Candidate for 2027. Tinubu wants one man rule in Nigeria 🇳🇬 We will defeat him. It is cowardly not presidential for President Tinubu to be afraid of the competition. God bless Nigeria 🇳🇬

This ref has been very poor in this game. Piss poor!!!

@ishakaa @iyaboawokoya Not to worry. I retract.

Shmmmm, he shouldn’t be granted bail because he committed wire tapping offense and here you are again saying he has been granted bail but yet to fulfill ……. Please share where in the charges of the Kaduna State High Court holding him “wiretapping” was mentioned…….I am waiting

No matter your/our politics, collectively as a people, we should NOT support this incarceration. In is injustice to keep shopping serially through many charges a 'legal' way to commit an illegality. If the charges agains Malam has no treason in them, he should be on bail.

@iyaboawokoya But he has been granted bail under conditions he is yet to fulfill i reckon.

@Kdimeji Is wire tapping a treasonable felony or was he not charged under Cybercrimes which is bailable? Please educate me why someone whose maximum penalty is not life or death should not be granted nail?

@walegates @ThatPHCBoy @tmacbond UBA got involved simply because the name of the company was mentioned. "Business mogul and UBA CEO"

@ThatPHCBoy @tmacbond UBA should definitely not be involved, but Tony need to pick them up. Too many vileness posted for shits and giggles has gotten me not wanting this level of freedom.

again, while this is bad, it should be a civil case and the penalty if convicted should not be more than a fine. there is no reason whatsoever why defamation should be a criminal offence

Below is the applicable law in Nigeria. You can be arrested for criminal Defamation under Section 375: Definition: Publishing defamatory matter (written, spoken, or published) that tends to injure the reputation of another person. Penalties: Simple Defamation: One year imprisonment. False Defamation: Two years imprisonment if the publisher knows it is false. Arrest: While often used to suppress criticism, it is a criminal offence, meaning police can initiate investigations and arrests.

We are discussing the arrest that Stephania called wrong. Been detained for extended period is wrong. Very wrong but we do not know if they have a court order to keep for an extended time pending conclusion of investigation especially where there is suspicion of a syndicate engineering this awful behavior for engagement farming.

@Kdimeji @StepheniaOmeh @tonyezalmon So police can simply detain a suspect for defamation for several weeks without charging them to court is what you're trying to say, sir?

Poor Nigerians celebrating that Billionaire Tony Elumelu arrested people that defamed his marriage. Nigerians are so addicted to oppression.

She is wrong. Very wrong. Below is the applicable law in Nigeria. You can be arrested for criminal Defamation under Section 375: Definition: Publishing defamatory matter (written, spoken, or published) that tends to injure the reputation of another person. Penalties: Simple Defamation: One year imprisonment. False Defamation: Two years imprisonment if the publisher knows it is false. Arrest: While often used to suppress criticism, it is a criminal offence, meaning police can initiate investigations and arrests. Again, each jurisdiction with their peculiar laws. Throwing jabs at Nigeria and a private citizen for exercising his right under applicable laws is absurd.

@Kdimeji @StepheniaOmeh @tonyezalmon I dislike Trump, but as much as I hate to admit it, she's right. He couldn't have done this in a sane country.

@StepheniaOmeh @tonyezalmon He created a fake "positive HIV result". Did you see that? What exactly are you supporting? You are a Trumper. No surprises.

@tonyezalmon Will he be able to arrest an American? If an American made that tweet - will he have the capacity to arrest an American? His marriage is none of my business - he can sue those guys for defamation and that’s it.

@Omojuwa @ruffydfire @FranceInNigeria you told @Omojuwa that timeline is 30 days. I was told today at the consulate in Ikoyi that timeline has been revised to 45 days despite having my passport for 38 days. Can this also be reviewed?

@Omojuwa @ruffydfire I even got confirmation today from someone in a similar situation to @Omojuwa that the embassy has now increased the timeline from 30 to 45 days at the minimum. Weird!!!

My right of reply to the unprofessional behaviour I just saw on Arise TV. I just watched the clip on YouTube after several messages asking if I owed you something @ruffydfire, because they couldn't understand your vehemence on the topic . Your behaviour is a masterclass in assumption dressed up as commentary. I must assume it isn't personal. I am appalled and disgusted by your nauseating behaviour. More so because @The_Vimbai was right there offering you a lifeline of sense and you declined it with full confidence. I watched her shoulders drop in real time. She was desperately explaining basic logic to you and failed to get through. You could do with some humility. Even those with intellectual depth know the value of strength in humility. You argued about my situation like I had personally briefed you, confirmed I had not done what you claimed, and you pressed on regardless. Nauseating and Unprofessional. Why did you assume I had not applied to withdraw my passport? A basic instinct, journalistic or otherwise, would have had you phrase that as a question rather than a proclamation. Shall I post my withdrawal application here? Or do you imagine I woke up on a Sunday, fully unbothered, and decided to call out an embassy for sport? You may not be a professional journalist. That is fine. But you have been on television long enough to have absorbed something by proximity. You share screens with @abati1990 and Vimbai — people who understand that the position comes with responsibilities. Watch them more carefully and listen to them. You can do that and still maintain your theatrics.