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A khafir’s opinion about your religion should never get to you, cause they’ll forever resent you no matter how good you are to them or how you practice your religion.
they want us to be carefree about our religion and they hate the fact islam rules can’t be bent, you either follow or you don’t.
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When it matters most, may almighty Allah guide our steps.
Sometimes, we want to be too careful, too wise and want to maximise every opportunity, but the truth is we don’t know.
We may know what is happening today but have no idea how things will turn out tomorrow.
May God guide every step we take. 🙏
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Like agreed after SAS won Borno state govt moved its accounts to Zenith bank with billions in it this led to Kashim being promoted to GM in Zenith bank, Kashim started getting involved with politicians because he manages their money.
By 2007 when SAS won re-election Kashim was appointed Commissioner of finance and his political journey started.
The rest they say is history.
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In case you are not keeping track of all the taxes that will be enforced after the elections:
1. Personal income tax (PIT/PAYE)
2. Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE)
3. Value Added Tax (VAT)
4. Companies Income Tax (CIT)
5. Development Levy
6. Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
7. Withholding Tax (WHT)
8. Stamp Duties
9. Tax on Rental Income
10. Tax on Investment Income
11. Presumptive Tax
12. Global Minimum Tax
13. Property and State Taxes/Levies
14. Customs and Import Duties
15. 5% Fuel Surcharge
You go vote abi you no go vote?
Nigerians Will Pay Fuel Tax When The Economy Becomes Stable — Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, has said the Federal Government will introduce fuel taxes when the economy stabilises and citizens’ incomes can accommodate the extra costs.
He disclosed this in an interview with ARISE News on the sidelines of the 2026 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, explaining that the government would first consolidate its economic reforms, restore growth and improve household earnings.
Oyedele said imposing additional levies immediately after petrol subsidy removal would have worsened Nigerians’ hardship.
“You remove subsidy, you can’t immediately impose taxes. That would be insensitive. You push the people to the wall,” he said.
The minister noted that fuel taxes account for between 20 and 80 per cent of petroleum prices in some countries, while several African nations impose multiple levies on fuel products.
He said the proposed revenue would support infrastructure and help the country prepare for future disruptions in fuel supply.
“Not because we want to impose taxes, it will be because those amounts of taxes will be dedicated into road infrastructure, they’ll be dedicated into building our fuel reserve, that can help us moderate prices of fuel products, if anything happens,” he explained.
According to Oyedele, the arrangement could also allow the government to suspend the levies temporarily when necessary to cushion the effects of market shocks.
“This is what more than 50 countries around the world, they were reducing the taxes, but we had no taxes, there was nothing to reduce,” he added.
“There has to be an order published in the gazette by the finance minister, which means we can’t do it in secret,” he said.
Oyedele maintained that the taxes would only be introduced when economic conditions improved sufficiently and Nigerians could understand the reasons for the policy and its expected benefits.
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A friend told me Gilmore is his senior during secondary school days in Ibadan at CTY
He said with the knowledge and punishment in CTY: ‘ Dem no born am well make e no reject bet9ja’
Yeah Definitely It’s Allah that actually guide one.
But background is important…. If you don’t have strong Islamic background… give you children strong Islamic background cos even when it’s hard to practice the religion.. the strong background keeps someone in check
May almighty Allah hold us steadfast and let us die as a Muslim.
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My mother and father get a free credit card with a high limit, and they can travel for Umrah anytime and go anywhere.
My siblings im happy to set up a trust fund for your kids. I will match half of any school fees, and you can cover the other half. I will happily help upgrade your home: plastering, solar panels and batteries, new beds, and all that.
You can get health insurance for free too. Anything else, OYO lowa
Billionaire Tyler Perry gave his own family 60 days to find jobs or lose his financial support. Despite being worth an estimated $1.4 billion, he refused to keep supporting relatives who weren't working.
In the video below, Perry explains why he fired his own aunt and later gave other family members an ultimatum after his mother's death.
He wanted them to become financially independent instead of relying on his fortune.
One aunt regularly called asking for money, and Perry kept sending it until he offered her a job. But she repeatedly called in and failed to show up for work, so he eventually fired her.
His mother had also asked him to support other relatives, and he continued helping them while she was alive. After she died in 2009, Perry sent them letters giving them 60 days to find employment or lose his financial support.
According to Perry, every relative eventually found a job. He didn't care whether the jobs paid well because he wanted them to earn their own money and have something to feel proud of.
Perry also recalled a relative getting angry when he refused to hand over $1 million. He believed that continually giving money to people who refused to work was making their dependence worse.
A billionaire who could afford to support his entire family chose to make them earn their own living.
If you had $1.4 billion, would you keep supporting unemployed relatives or give them the same 60-day ultimatum?
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Meet Turhan Mildon: 29 years old, Turkish billionaire, and quite possibly the most efficient grifter of his generation. Most of us spend our twenties figuring out navigating roommates. He spent his collecting heads of state.
Last month he married 42-year-old Alina Habba, Trump's former personal lawyer, in a reported $10 million wedding at the Waldorf Astoria. The guest list included Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel, and White House Counsel Will Scharf. Normal crowd for a normal wedding between two normal people.
How does a guy get there before 30? Easy. Follow the steps:
Step 1: Marry into a Turkish family whose company built a mega-mosque for Erdogan. Get introduced by Erdogan to the president of Congo.
Step 2: Become an adviser to Congo's president and pick up a Congolese diplomatic passport. As one does.
Step 3: Head to Venezuela. Divorce. Get engaged to the daughter of a U.S.-sanctioned admiral close to Maduro. Land a contract running the country's state-owned cement plants.
Step 4: Watch the U.S. capture Maduro in January. Learn the Trump administration reportedly weighed sanctioning you (his team calls that a "malicious rumor"). Lose the cement contract in June.
Step 5: Meet Trump's former lawyer at the Kennedy Center. Plan a wedding in about 60 days. Invite the top law enforcement officials in America.
Strategic? Romantic? Why not both.
And the fun part: he's still trying to hang onto that Venezuelan cement deal. Totally unrelated, we're sure.
Oh, and he's still only 29. Or 25, according to British corporate records. Either way, he's out-hustling everyone you know.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love apparently also comes with a diplomatic passport and a seat next to the FBI director.
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Today, that prophecy is being fulfilled before our very eyes.
What makes this betrayal collective is that no prominent southern voice of consequence has risen to defend El-Rufai. The governors from the South, the Yoruba elders, the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC)—they have all maintained a calculated silence. Some have even gone further, actively painting El-Rufai as a corrupt politician who deserves his fate. This is the reward for the man who, as MURIC put it, "gave southerners the presidency" . This is the gratitude of a region that received power on a silver platter from the North and responded by locking the platter’s carrier in a detention cell.
The northern politicians who remain in Tinubu’s cabinet are not blind to this betrayal. They see it. They feel it. But they are trapped. They are not loyal allies; they are servants of the crown, functionaries who understand that speaking out would cost them their positions. They watched El-Rufai be sacrificed, and they know they could be next. Those standing on the mandate of Tinubu today are not partners in a national project. They are prisoners of a regional arrangement that has shown its true colors. As the philosopher George Santayana famously warned, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The North remembers. And the North will not repeat its mistake.
Let us speak plainly about the numbers. Between 1999 and 2023, the South occupied the presidency for 14 years (Obasanjo 8 years, Jonathan 6 years) while the North occupied it for only 8 years (Yar‘Adua 3 years, Buhari 8 years minus Yar‘Adua’s 3). If Tinubu serves his full first term until 2027, the South would have held Aso Rock for 17 years against the North’s 11 years. If Tinubu wins re-election and serves until 2031, those numbers become 21 years for the South versus 11 for the North. This is not power sharing. This is power hoarding. And yet southern voices have the audacity to call northerners who question this arrangement "traitors" .
The philosopher Edmund Burke once observed, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." The good men of the North, the ones who followed El-Rufai’s lead in 2022, have learned a bitter lesson. Their sacrifice was met with silence. Their champion was met with detention. Their loyalty was met with betrayal. It will take a very long time for the South-West to secure another genuine alliance with the North. Trust, once broken, cannot be repaired with appeals to zoning. It can only be restored with justice, reciprocity, and the release of Nasir El-Rufai from the clutches of a persecution that has shamed the very concept of Nigerian federalism. Until then, the North watches, the North remembers, and the North will not trust zoning to the South in 2027.
Mohammed Bello Doka can be reached via [email protected]
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“When you can't be controlled, you will be hated, and that's the power.”
— Nikola Tesla
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The Wizard of Kirsten Hall is Herbert Heelas Macaulay (1864-1946), the father of Nigerian nationalism.
Kirsten Hall was his house at 8 Balbina Street, Lagos.
That house was his office, library, museum and political headquarters.
Why they called him Wizard:
He had an uncanny way of getting classified, secret government documents from inside the colonial office minutes, letters, plans.
He would then publish them in the Lagos Daily News and use them to embarrass and defeat the British colonial government in court.
The British couldn't understand how he got them, so people started calling him the Wizard.
This portrait of him was in his later years, bald head, that famous white handlebar moustache and bow tie.
He was an engineer, architect, surveyor, musician, journalist and politician, but that "Wizard" name is what Lagos people remembered him for.
He died in 1946, just after a political tour to the North.
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This thing they call delayed gratification is actually real. Like real, real.
Yesterday, I met with a retiree who offered to drop me at my office after our meeting.
Guess what? He drives a 2026 SUV.
I was like, “sir you are driving this after retirement?” He said that’s the whole point of being disciplined at a young age.
He is balling.
Save. Invest. Build for the future.
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“I can’t promote Alcohol because I have a lot of kids following me”
Khaby Lame did the same. I love Muslims who never let the worldly things compromise their Deen.
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Men in kaftan , some in cars and some trekking holding their prayer mats smiling and shaking hands as they meet friends and brothers😍
The rich and poor gather for one purpose.
Jummah Mubarak🤍
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Na you go help me feed my pikin?
The other guy is aware of the impropriety of the act but he thinks ends meet is a justification.
What people don't understand is, they won't escape the consequences of eating harām.
Just a couple of days ago, my father called me and my brother to admonish us to be wary of what we feed our families with by avoiding eating harām.
Beyond the religious ethics, I'm more inspired and inclined to chart that course because I know my father never nurtured us with unlawful earnings, not even when he held administrative positions. Walhamdulillaah.
If you eat harām, you will see the effects and still account for it. May Allah bless our earnings.
