... is the number of 🇳🇬ns in poverty declining and are the number on 🇳🇬ns under- or unemployed declining ... if these measures are not moving in right direction, there is no economic progress ... sadly, 🇳🇬 has no evidence they are doing so yet ... when they do, 🇳🇬 can celebrate
"ALL Accreditation, Voting, Collation & Transmission of votes shall be ELECTRONIC"
This is our core demand for #ElectoralReforms. Without it, we can't elect the competent leaders we desire
Join Us to make this demand from the government and let's see Nigeria prosper
#joinTBAN
On Sunday, we held our maiden meeting in Lagos State and members of the public and members of our movement gathered together to discuss steps we must take as citizens to reform our country
We have started to ORGANIZE!
#joinTBAN and let us make our country great together.
A president who wouldn't ensure an electoral reform that makes electronic voting possible, is invariably a president that is not sure that a free and fair election will return his likes or bring his likes to power. We challenge this APC led government to deliver a....
Akwa Ibom Governor (Emmanuel = God with us) Udom causes a banker in his state who made an 'annoying' Facebook post about him to get remanded in prison.
Your governors are worse dictators.
The Kenyan academic/public speaker Prof. P.L.O. Lumumba spoke today on African development at the Goddy Jidenma Foundation lecture at the NIIA. I gave the GJF Lecture in 2017. Here, with PLO, event Chair, former Foreign Minister Prof. Joy Ogwu, and GJF Founder Dr. Ije Jidenma.
Looking forward to International Breweries Plc @IBPlc_ng ‘s 4th Kickstart Entrepreneurship Awards tomorrow Thursday, where I’ll give the keynote on “Nigerian Youth and National Development: Innovation, Jobs, Social Investment”. Please join us as we seek a future for our youth.
Below are the contact details of the 109 Senators. Don't just retweet, but also take action. Send an email! Send text messages! Call them! Tell your friends and families to do the same! TALK TO YOUR SENATORS!
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There are two SEPARATE bills in the Senate.
1. The Hate Speech Bill is the one that proposes hanging you.
2. The Social Media Bill is the one that gives Police the right to block access to social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Nairaland, etc.
@HamzyCODE The insightful day came to a rousing close with the visit of former presidential candidate, Political economist, lawyer, & former United Nations official, Prof Kingsley Moghalu @MoghaluKingsley who blew the participants away with his intellect, foresight, and passion for Nigeria.
At @RestoreNaija#DigitalVotingSummit2019 in Abuja this afternoon, we agreed a transparent digital voting system backed with #blockchain tech to prevent rigging, is step #1 to elections we can trust. With @HamzyCODE, Hajiya Sa’adatu Abdullahi, Prez, Northern Women in Politics
“Ndigbo in Contemporary Nigerian Politics”: For those that have requested and those interested, here’s the full 2nd Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Memorial Lecture I delivered today, the late Icon’s 78th birthday (posthumous), for the record.
https://t.co/zJdtRCg8nh
I delivered the Ojukwu Lecture today at Anambra State Univ, now named in his honor. 50 years post-war, Igbos don’t need to prove their Nigerianness. They’re just as Nigerian as anyone, arguably even more so. They deserve their place in the sun as of right, not at sufferance.
At the 2nd Ojukwu Memorial Lecture which I delivered as Guest Speaker this afternoon (Ojukwu’s posthumous birthday), cutting the birthday cake with his widow Amb. Bianca Ojukwu, Anambra State Dep Gov. Dr. Nkem Okeke, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and others; with @MaryanneMoghalu
Saudi oil juggernaut @Aramco is being privatized. As a candidate for President I argued we should partially privatize @NNPCgroup 49:51% between @NigeriaGov and the private sector. But it should be sold on @nsenigeria to Nigerians not foreigners, with part for host communities/
La Vanguardia, one of Spain’s top newspapers, has just published a special magazine on Africa:The Continent of the Future, with contributions from about 12 global leaders and thinkers. Yours truly was asked to write on Africa and globalization.
https://t.co/dDWLLkxONK