Adeniran Adewale

CEO Donjay resources ltd.

[Foundational Nupe Lawyer @egi_nupe]

There is a group of Nigerians for whom complaining about Nigeria is no longer a reaction. It is a daily habit, a group identity, and in some cases a personality. Morning, afternoon, and night, the script is the same. Nigeria is finished. Nothing works. Nothing has ever worked. The past was a disaster. The present is a disaster. The future is already written as a disaster. They do not see anything good about the country, and they do not say anything good about it either.

If a story is bad, it travels. If it is false but sounds bad enough, it travels faster. If it is good, it is ignored, doubted, or dismissed as propaganda.
This is not patriotism. It is not even serious criticism. Serious criticism names a problem and points toward a remedy. What many people now practise is something else: a standing refusal to admit that anything in this country can be useful, improvable, or worth defending.

Yes, Nigeria has problems. Governance has failed in too many places. Corruption has cost the country more than it can easily count. Infrastructure is uneven. Insecurity has destroyed lives and livelihoods. Public institutions often underperform. Anyone who pretends otherwise is not being honest. But a country is not only its failures. A country is also its people, its markets, its schools, its farms, its traders, its professionals, its diaspora remittances, its culture, and the millions who wake up every day and still produce something.

Rather than ask what can be done, the conversation ends at the curse. Leaders are insulted. Fellow citizens are mocked. Anyone who points to a working business, a skilled young person, a functioning local initiative, or a sector that is growing is treated as naïve or compromised. Fake news is forwarded because it confirms the feeling. Bad news is shared because it keeps the group together.

Meanwhile, other people in the same country are getting richer, not because the system suddenly became perfect, but because they stopped waiting for the complaint to become a plan. They learned a skill the market would pay for. They studied past the certificate. They built clientele. They traded. They farmed with better methods. They wrote, coded, taught, repaired, designed, exported, or offered a service people actually needed. They did not deny the difficulty. They priced it in and moved.

Opportunity in Nigeria has never been evenly distributed, and it has never been easy. That is not the same thing as saying opportunity does not exist. It exists in trades that are short of competent people. It exists in professions where reputation still beats noise. It exists in agriculture, logistics, education, health, technology, construction, media, and small manufacturing, for those willing to learn the work instead of only learning the grievance. The person who acquires a real skill and uses it well will usually outpace the person who has mastered only the language of national despair.

Patriotism, properly understood, is not blindness. It is not singing while the house burns. It is the decision to treat the country as yours enough to improve it, rather than as a stranger you are only permitted to abuse. You can criticise policy and still refuse to traffic in lies. You can demand better leadership and still refuse to curse every neighbour who is trying.

Why is there never a sentence about what is working, what can be learned, or what you yourself are building? Why is every conversation a funeral and every forward a curse? Acquire the skill. Get the education that changes your capacity, not just your caption.

Add value somewhere a buyer, a client, a student, a patient, or a community can feel it. Make an impact that survives the news cycle.
Nigeria will not be saved by a timeline of permanent pessimism. It will be moved, slowly and unevenly, by people who can see the cracks and still lay a brick. Complaining has had its turn. It has not built the road, trained the child, or paid the bills. Something else has to.

[Tadé Makinwa @MackOmotade]

Whenever Nigerians gather to discuss the country’s problems, one phrase is almost guaranteed to come up:

“We just need a functional system.”

I hear it everywhere. In interviews. On social media. In taxis. At conferences. In political conversations. At some point, I stopped listening to the phrase itself and became more interested in the people using it.

So one day, I asked someone a simple question:

“What exactly is a functional system?” And he couldn’t give an answer.

That conversation proved that many people use the phrase because it sounds intelligent, not because they truly understand what it means.

A system is not magic. A system is simply a structure made up of rules, institutions, processes, incentives, consequences, and people who consistently make those things work.

A functional system is one where the rules are largely predictable, institutions perform their responsibilities, excellence is rewarded, incompetence has consequences, and the average citizen understands that there are standards that cannot be negotiated.

Now let me say something uncomfortable.

Many Nigerians say they want a functional system, but the truth is, many are not yet prepared to live in one. If you think I’m lying think about it.

The same people who complain about corruption but become excited when they know someone “at the top” who can bend the rules for them, they are also the same people who will make excuses for fraudster and yahoo yahoo.

They criticize politicians for nepotism but call their uncle to secure jobs they are not qualified for. They want law and order until the law applies to them. They want accountability until they are the ones being held accountable.

That is not a desire for a functional system, that is a desire for a system that works only in your favour.

In a truly functional system, you do not drive against traffic because you are in a hurry. You do not skip queues because you know someone. You do not evade taxes while demanding world-class infrastructure. You do not bribe your way out of offences. You do not submit fake certificates. You do not forge documents. You do not throw refuse into drainage and then complain about flooding. You do not expect electricity without paying for it. You do not ignore building regulations and then blame government when buildings collapse.

A functional system is expensive, not necessarily because of money, but because of discipline. It demands that everyone, rich or poor, connected or unknown, submits to standards. It inconveniences everybody equally, and that is why many societies appear orderly, not because they have angels living there, but because the cost of breaking the rules is often higher than the benefit.

Sadly, many of the people who loudly demand a functional system have built their own success around dysfunction. Some businesses exist only because of these loopholes , some careers thrive because merit is absent, some fortunes were built through regulatory loopholes.

Ironically, if Nigeria suddenly became completely functional tomorrow, many people currently celebrating their success would struggle to maintain it.

This is why I believe our conversation must mature. Yes, government has enormous responsibilities, institutions must improve, and leadership matters.

But systems are also strengthened, or weakened by the everyday behaviour of citizens.

A nation where millions of people constantly look for shortcuts cannot magically produce world-class institutions.

The same values that destroy homes eventually destroy organisations. The same attitudes that weaken organisations eventually weaken nations.

A functional Nigeria will require functional citizens.

Perhaps we should start asking:

“Are we becoming the kind of people who can sustain a functional system?”

Because systems do not exist independently of people. People build systems. People protect systems. And ultimately, people either strengthen them, or destroy them.

#Tadé
#iyawooga
#refinedlady

[Taiwo_Ajakaye @dmightyangel]

This exactly has been my view about the issue of Olodo Uprising....

I once said it here that I still don't understand how people survive on tiktok to wake up and watch people that just woke up , set camera and that's it.....

What were they supplying as content?

What you're demanding from them...

That's why many of you find it difficult to read through when we write on topical issues....

Why blaming the supplier of what you demanded and encourage?

[A. Ayofe @abdullahayofel]

What is Almajiri Activism? 😳👀

Watch and Learn⤵️

Omo the lady just exposed vdm and others almajiri activist 👇🔥

[𝕊𝕚𝕣 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕦 @sirlablu]

The Ebi ń pawás brigade would rather stop road construction and demand instant food palliatives. Destructive Mentality!

Nation-building is not a magic show. Is a no pain - no gain affairs.

Check Frankie Ikemefuna on FB. This guy is serving wisdom. 👇🏾

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

AKARA BUSINESS IS AN INSULT?

Akara Business is insulting but small chops trade is more dignifying?

Kulikuli snacks is ridiculous but bottled Cashew Nuts is more respectful?

​It is not the First Lady’s empowerment initiative that provokes your ire; it is your own inferiority complex disguising as sophistication.

To you, a homegrown solution to a local problem is a bitter pill, unless it is sugar-coated in a foreign package. You look at the soil that feeds you and call it dirt.

Everyone reading this knows at least a friend, a neighbor, or an acquaintance whose family did not just survive on such modest ventures, but used them as a springboard. From the smoky fires of humble enterprises, they groomed giants and raised nobility. From those small frying pots, great destinies have been forged.

Are we, as a nation, going to play the hypocrite and pretend that everyone is can code IT algorithms, build AI robots, or trade in real estate?

Are we genuinely suggesting that low-income households have ceased to exist among us - homes where a mere ₦100,000 won't be seen as pittance but appreciable fortune?

Ah, I forgot. On the streets of X, poverty is a myth and we are all Billionaires.

The First Lady is in order.

Empowerments are in levels and human capital investments are in categories. When students were awarded N50M start-up grant from the Federal Government, the same voices now loudest at critiquing the First Lady's attempt at reaching the lowest of the economic rung were shamefully mute.

They could not muster a single whisper of commendation then, yet they activate their loudest decibels now, eager to spin another web of rants.

Dear First Lady - much gratitude for being a true mother of the Nation, one who knows that every child, no matter how small, deserves a portion at the table.

Oga @woye1 - I have relatives whose lives will be deeply touched by this outreach. Kindly point me toward the application path...

Good Evening Severally...

[TallJohn🌍 @JohnFanimokun]

"No serious Nigerian should opposed State Police. If the Federal Government can have federal police, nothing should stop a state government and even local government to have their own police." — Femi Falana, SAN 2024

This same man is now out in 2026 to criticize the implementation of the same state police.

[Belinda Ezeofor @BelindaUjuu]

History has a habit of embarrassing propaganda. Evidence waits, then WINS!

#nigeria
#leadership
#history

[Dr. Calafiori 🦇 @fimiletoks]

You won't see this from Governors of Katsina, zamfara or Yobe but their citizens are here shouting "Tinubu must go".

They would rather spend N2bn on mass weddings or fund hisbah police to look for people eating during fasting.

[Adeniran Adewale @AdewaleDonjay]

@egi_nupe You have spoken well jare!

[Dr. Calafiori 🦇 @fimiletoks]

A 2014 Unicef report puts the Almajiri population at 9.5m children, 72% of out of school children in Nigeria. When you send kids out of their homes to fend for themselves 400km away, what do you think they'll become? Tech gurus? Scientists?

[Akin Akinwale @mrlurvy]

Six months ago, the prophets of doom, merchants of misinformation, and self-appointed experts claimed the new tax laws would give the FG access to empty our bank accounts.

Six months later, bank accounts remain intact, businesses are operating, and Nigerians can now clearly see the difference between genuine public policy and fearmongering.

Perhaps it is time those who spread panic and falsehoods admitted they got it wrong.

[Adeniran Adewale @AdewaleDonjay]

It's one tribe that is causing most of our problems in Nigeria.
We know it
They know it
Their leaders knows it, but non of them is saying or doing anything about it.
This is not ethnic profiling.
This is WHOLE TRUTH supported by facts and data.

[Lere Olayinka - Aresa 1 @OlayinkaLere]

Let me say this again, no society can have peace with children going through pains and neglect like this.

Giving birth to children that parents cannot account for and take proper care of must stop.

[Fisayo Ademuwagun @Tolu_7085]

People really think I am joking when I support Tinubu.
You think it was easy for someone who has never collected a voters card in his life to go and line up three times just to get one?

Let me explain my reason.
I see politicians who are against Tinubu — and I know exactly why they are against him. He is closing the loopholes they have fed from for decades.
I see the masses who are feeling the full impact of the economic reforms — and I understand their pain. It is real.

But here I am a thinker.
And as a thinker I believe President Tinubu needs more support not less. Not because he is perfect but because the process he has started is bigger than the man himself.

So I will not just support him quietly.
I will go further — I will engage, I will explain and I will win more people over to understand what is actually happening to this economy.
Because Nigeria deserves people who think before they react. 😎

[Adeniran Adewale @AdewaleDonjay]

@Maddu_550 27

[Adeniran Adewale @AdewaleDonjay]

@DeeOneAyekooto Kare! Barry Agba.

[Imran Muhammad @Imranmuhdz]

President Tinubu mocked Atiku on privatization:

No one among them (coalition leaders) is without history, the head (Atiku) was the chairman of the privatization council of Nigeria at one time. They privatized the steel industry in Delta, is it working today? They privatized Ajaokuta, is it working today? They privatized another man’s political party; that one says no.

[LEGENDARY J.O.E @LegendaryJoe]

FIVE THINGS APC MUST DO TO BE SEEN AS FAIR

Now, listen carefully...

If APC ever hopes to be regarded as fair - if the ruling party ever wishes to escape the charge of strangling the opposition - it must, without delay, satisfy the following conditions.

FIRST, it must padlock its own gates. No new members. The party must starve itself.

SECOND, the President must sack the INEC chairman the very moment his conduct displeases the opposition. And the replacement? The opposition must choose him. Them alone.

THIRD, the judiciary must be bound - by law, by conscience, or by divine intervention - to rule in favour of the opposition at every turn, and against the ruling party without exception. Every case. Every time. No discretion.

FOURTH - please pay attention to this one - the President must resign before the next election. Not a handover to his Vice President, mind you. He must surrender the reins directly to a gang leader. And the preferred one for this honour? Abacha's stooge. Peter

Fifth - and perhaps the most inspired demand of all - APC must establish, within its own structures, a dedicated department. It shall be called the Party Management Organization. Its sole mandate?

To manage the internal crises of opposition parties. To nurse their conflicts. To hold their factions together. To ensure, at APC's own expense and effort, that the opposition survives.

The ruling party must now babysit its own rivals.

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Those five conditions will do - for now.

Only then will the opposition concede, with great magnanimity, that the ruling party has been fair.

Good Morning Severally....

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