This is former Nigerian Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, being used in a hospital advert after undergoing knee replacement surgery in India.
These so-called “experienced leaders” had every opportunity while in power to build first-class healthcare facilities in Nigeria. Yet, in old age, they travel abroad for the very medical care they failed to make adequately available at home and can even end up as advertisements for foreign hospitals.
At this rate, perhaps one day a hospital in France will be using a Nigerian president, Tinubu for its adverts.
What a tragic indictment of decades of failed leadership and neglect of Nigeria’s healthcare system.
What General Philip Effiong said on this video is one of the reasons History was banned as a subject, because they will rather perpetuate the lie that the civil war was Igbo man’s war just to isolate the Igbo. But here, Effiong punctured that lie, and stated the gospel truth.
Every human being has equal value. Every single one.
At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored.
No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed.
What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity.
Love and a little kindness. For everyone.
The world may not transform overnight because of the speeches delivered in this August Assembly. But history faithfully records the truth we choose to speak, and the silence we choose to keep, when we are granted the privilege of addressing this global town hall. #UNGA81
“I started acting before Nollywood was created in 1992. I appeared in The Merchant of Venice in 1962 as a 15yo. I’m the only person who has done a film that made white people fly in to Nigeria just to interview me. Nobody has achieved that.”
—Pete Edochie
Meet Hon. Ebi Bright, Mayor of Tema, Ghana. 🇬🇭
She’s one of the 40 women in the inaugural cohort of the African Academy for Women in Political Leadership. ✨
In 90 seconds she shares what the room has meant to her and what she is taking back home. 💜
#SheLeadsAfrica
@grok@grok Address the issue of poverty and wars in precolonial Africa from the perspective of Chancellor Williams, Ivan Van Shetima and Cheik Diop - not from the lens of Adam Smith, the West or the Arabs. Again by what yardstick did you define them?
@grok was there poverty in the precolonial African society? In what way did it exist and how did the communal nature of that society address it? Do not answer to justify the Arab and European invasion of Africa, and do not answer to support Africa. Be honest
@grok@grok You referenced Ghana (300-1200), does that not coincide with the 4th century? By what yardstick do you define poverty and wars in Africa? Does communalism have room for them, or recognise that difficulties and misunderstandings can exist